{"id":21727,"date":"2016-10-21T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=21727"},"modified":"2016-10-21T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T13:19:09","slug":"letter-republicans-you-own-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=21727","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Republicans, you own this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Letters1-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2169\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Letters1-10.jpg\" alt=\"letters1\" width=\"200\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton faced off\u00a0their final debate, and once again Mr. Trump found new ways to embarrass the Republican Party \u2013 and those\u00a0in the Chester County Republican Committee and their candidates\u00a0who have continued to endorse him. \u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Their support continues\u00a0despite his complete lack of understanding of the US Constitution and how government works,\u00a0his\u00a0attacks on women, minorities, and people of faith. Don\u2019t forget\u00a0his attack on our veterans and the Khan family, and\u00a0especially\u00a0his\u00a0childish\u00a0threats of violence and\u00a0inability to accept the outcome of the race if he loses. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You\u00a0could add\u00a0his distortion of reality on immigration,\u00a0climate change,\u00a0Russia,\u00a0voting rights,\u00a0the Middle East, taxes\u00a0and the economy,\u00a0world trade policies, healthcare,\u00a0the handicapped,\u00a0the\u00a0working poor,\u00a0and Muslims. The US has never seen this degree of unfitness in a presidential candidate \u2013 and yet none of these failures in character and leadership have led local and state Republicans to stop supporting his candidacy.\u00a0I\u00a0think it\u2019s time they admit their \u201chuge\u201d mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0Brian J. McGinnis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Chairman, <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Chester County Democratic Committee\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To The Editor, Donald Trump and Secretary Hillary Clinton faced off\u00a0their final debate, and once again Mr. Trump found new ways to embarrass the Republican Party \u2013 and those\u00a0in the Chester County Republican Committee and their candidates\u00a0who have continued to endorse him. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8101,6900,6003,7215,263,1066],"class_list":["post-21727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-democrts","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-2016","tag-issues","tag-letters","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727","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=21727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21728,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21727\/revisions\/21728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}