{"id":807815,"date":"2020-05-26T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=383955"},"modified":"2020-05-26T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:46:48","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-a-legislator-should-be-a-strong-voice-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-a-legislator-should-be-a-strong-voice-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: A legislator should be a strong voice for the people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"40\">\n<p>The Joint Budget Committee voted to suspend the Homestead Tax Exemption.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In April, the committee published its official recommendations, and the Homestead suspension was included.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Before then, our state senator could have informed us, his constituents, of this consideration. Instead, Sen. Bob Rankin never spoke out against the Homestead suspension recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>As his constituents, we should have been informed and empowered to publicly object before the committee\u2019s official recommendation in April. Knowing this suspension was a probability, we constituents could have had the opportunity to voice our objection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row sd-donation sd-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This suspension will add more financial strain on seniors and disabled veterans. Why have them, specifically, bear some of the burden of balancing a budget greatly affected by the overspending of our money?<\/p>\n<p>In the end, county assessors boldly spoke out against the April committee recommendation to suspend the tax exemption. But, sadly, the final vote went through. After that pressure, Rankin did vote against it, but it should not have come to that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.256871035941\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 sd-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.085106382979\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/SDN-logo-white-1.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a Summit Daily News reader, you make our work possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your financial support is critical to help us keep our communities informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having on our residents and businesses. Every contribution, no matter the size, will make a difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your donation will be used exclusively to support quality, local journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><button class=\"btn\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickBelow()\">Donate<\/button> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-a-legislator-should-be-a-strong-voice-for-the-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joint Budget Committee voted to suspend the Homestead Tax Exemption.&nbsp; In April, the committee published its official recommendations, and the Homestead suspension was included.&nbsp; Before then, our state senator could have informed us, his constituents, of this consideration. Instead, Sen. Bob Rankin never spoke out against the Homestead suspension recommendation. As his constituents, we [&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-807815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 05:48:04","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\/807815","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=807815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}