{"id":370915,"date":"2026-08-14T01:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370915\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T01:42:07","slug":"local-elections-have-lasting-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370915\/","title":{"rendered":"Local elections have lasting consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor:<\/p>\n<p>One local election can change everything.\u00a0 This August, voters are faced with tipping or balancing the scales of justice, the board of commission and the school board.\u00a0 These races are not primaries.\u00a0 They are decisive.<\/p>\n<p>While some of these races are non-partisan, some candidates flaunt their extremism, while others respect the public\u2019s choice to keep political\u00a0leanings out of decision making. <\/p>\n<p>Pay close attention to the candidates who campaign with regard to ethics and those who don\u2019t.\u00a0Take note of their\u00a0financial reports, not\u00a0just for the\u00a0source and amount,\u00a0but also to notice what is not reported!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These elections may seem small, but they have big consequences and impact whether we end up with a balanced, ethical slate of officials or not.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>There are no do-overs, so think past Party affiliations to ethical standards.<\/p>\n<p>Karyn Edison<\/p>\n<p>Fort Myers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: One local election can change everything.\u00a0 This August, voters are faced with tipping or balancing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-370915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}