{"id":16831,"date":"2014-03-27T18:01:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=16831"},"modified":"2014-03-27T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:01:25","slug":"editorial-sierramadrenews-nets-city-council-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=16831","title":{"rendered":"Editorial SierraMadreNews.Net’s City Council Endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gene Goss, click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Editorial posted 3\/27\/14<\/em> – As I let him know back in mid-February, SierraMadreNews.Net endorses Gene Goss for City Council, just as we did in 2012.\u00a0 As I said at that time, \u201cGene has studied politics for much of his adult life, he has a Masters Degree in Political Science.\u00a0 Heck, he teaches it at Long Beach City College.\u00a0 I think that knowledge might be helpful to the City.\u00a0 His experience as Technology Committee Chair at LBCC might also come in handy in assessing the City\u2019s methods and policies regarding technology.\u00a0 As an academic, he will bring analytical skills to the table as well.\u00a0 He has a young son that he wants to continue to raise here in Sierra Madre, so he is fully invested in the future of our town, as well.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know Gene before this campaign, but we\u2019ve sat down a few times and talked, and I have been comfortable with him right from the start, and we are on the same page with the issues we\u2019ve discussed.\u00a0 That\u2019s not a prerequisite for my endorsement, by the way.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have to agree on everything with a candidate in order to endorse them.\u00a0 But in this case, we seem to be pretty much of like mind, and for me, that\u2019s a definite plus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything I said then holds true today.\u00a0 But I know him better now than I did then, and he\u2019s done nothing that would cause me to retract the News Net endorsement.\u00a0 And one thing in particular that holds a lot of weight, is that he\u2019s been here 19 years, and has knowledge and awareness of our City, its government, and the people who run our town.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad to support him, and I encourage you to vote for him.<\/p>\n

That last line is important.\u00a0 Because this year, for the first time, I\u2019m only endorsing one candidate, though there are three seats open.\u00a0 The reason being, that for me to offer the News Net\u2019s endorsement to a candidate, I have to support them fully, and I have to feel strongly that I\u2019m doing the right thing by giving them the News Net\u2019s endorsement, thereby encouraging News Net readers to vote for that candidate.\u00a0 And in this campaign, while I will vote for two other people, and I will offer them limited support, I don\u2019t feel it\u2019s appropriate to encourage other people to vote for someone when I\u2019m not even 100% convinced<\/em><\/strong> that I\u2019m making the right choice.\u00a0 I have questions and concerns about the other candidates, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s appropriate for me to recommend that you vote for someone while those concerns exist, and so I\u2019m withholding the News Net endorsements for the other two seats.<\/p>\n

So, as I said, SierraMadreNews.Net endorses Gene Goss for City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editorial posted 3\/27\/14 – As I let him know back in mid-February, SierraMadreNews.Net endorses Gene Goss for City Council, just as we did in 2012.\u00a0 As I said at that time, \u201cGene has studied politics…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}