{"id":5242,"date":"2010-01-25T13:25:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2010-02-05T15:31:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:31:02","slug":"every-election-is-a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/every-election-is-a-new-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Election Is A New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Branson, Missouri, has a novel idea: its new elected officials don&#8217;t like a contract signed by the previous elected officials, so they&#8217;ll just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=20101230377\" target=\"_blank\">say that contract is unconstitutional<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nearly four years after the city of Branson agreed to pay a privately-operated airport $8.24 for every out-of-town passenger it brings in, new municipal officials are questioning if such a contract is constitutional.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line is our concern that it can be construed as a taxpayers&#8217; subsidy of a private business,&#8221; said Branson City Administrator Dean Kruithof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Get your banana republic on!  Let&#8217;s tear up all agreements every two to four years.  Because we&#8217;re a nation of men, not laws, now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Branson, Missouri, has a novel idea: its new elected officials don&#8217;t like a contract signed by the previous elected officials, so they&#8217;ll just say that contract is unconstitutional: Nearly four years after the city of Branson agreed to pay a privately-operated airport $8.24 for every out-of-town passenger it brings in, new municipal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5340,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}