{"id":798281,"date":"2019-08-06T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369565"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T16:44:22","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-paid-signature-gatherers-and-narrow-partisan-funding-is-not-a-citizen-led-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-paid-signature-gatherers-and-narrow-partisan-funding-is-not-a-citizen-led-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Paid signature gatherers and narrow partisan funding is not a citizen-led movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In reading recent headlines about the recall referendum for National Popular Vote, I am amazed that popular vote opponents claim a grassroots nature of their campaign. Where is the mention of the <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/tracer.sos.colorado.gov\/CampaignFinance\/Filings\/Schedules\/ViewContributionSchedule.aspx%3FFilingID=274997\">$500,000 contributed to the effort<\/a> by rapidly partisan donors? Where is the mention of the deceptive signature practices paid signature gatherers used to <a href=\"mailto:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch%3Fv=8-HhzLnanI8\">trick people into thinking these petitions were pro-popular vote<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>It is time to define the antipopular vote movement for what it is: Extremists who are afraid of equal vote for president. Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Legislature got it right. Let\u2019s support them and have a popular vote for president. The person with the most votes should win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-paid-signature-gatherers-and-narrow-partisan-funding-is-not-a-citizen-led-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading recent headlines about the recall referendum for National Popular Vote, I am amazed that popular vote opponents claim a grassroots nature of their campaign. Where is the mention of the $500,000 contributed to the effort by rapidly partisan donors? Where is the mention of the deceptive signature practices paid signature gatherers used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 19:18:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}