{"id":19596,"date":"2025-10-30T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19596\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:19:07","slug":"pennsylvania-gets-judicial-retention-votes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/19596\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania gets judicial retention votes wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not know the people who are seeking retention to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. I assume they are fine and honest people. My position is not political. I always vote no on retention ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The only places that I am aware of where only one person is allowed to be on a ballot are communist nations, banana republics and the state of Pennsylvania. Retention ballots are undemocratic. If we are going to elect justices to the courts, then we need open elections.<\/p>\n<p>Doug LaFauci<\/p>\n<p>Exeter Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I do not know the people who are seeking retention to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. I assume they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-19596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","10":"tag-opinion","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}