{"id":19035,"date":"2016-04-11T08:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=19035"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:47:35","slug":"letter-gop-ads-about-malloy-are-deceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=19035","title":{"rendered":"Letter: GOP ads about Malloy are deceptive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">To The Editor:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Letters1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1332638 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Letters1.jpg\" alt=\"Letters1\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>For several weeks my mailbox has been overflowing with large flyers sent by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania supporting Tom Killion and panning Marty Molloy, the candidates in the April 26 special election. \u00a0This special election will fill the open seat in the Pennsylvania 9th Senatorial District.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Republicans must be desperate to find something negative to say about Marty Molloy. \u00a0Their latest flyer references a 9-year-old article from <a href=\"http:\/\/philly.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">philly.com<\/span><\/a> about Act I. \u00a0Act I was a law that required a referendum vote on the May 2007 primary ballot regarding a proposed partial shift from property taxes to income taxes. \u00a0The flyer says \u201cMarty Molloy didn\u2019t show up to vote on a measure that would have reduced property taxes.\u201d \u00a0They make it seem that one citizen\u2019s vote would have made all the difference, but Act I was opposed by both Republicans and Democrats and was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This deceptive advertising makes me very wary. \u00a0I want a senator who understands that when the state reduces funding for education, local school districts are forced to increase property taxes. \u00a0Marty Molloy understands this as well as how good education helps create jobs, economic development and opportunity for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I think that Marty Molloy is the better person to be our State Senator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Elizabeth Rhoads<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Kennett Square<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor: For several weeks my mailbox has been overflowing with large flyers sent by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania supporting Tom Killion and panning Marty Molloy, the candidates in the April 26 special election. \u00a0This special election will fill the open seat in the Pennsylvania 9th Senatorial District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7322,452],"class_list":["post-19035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-marty-malloy","tag-state-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}