{"id":17739,"date":"2025-10-21T23:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17739"},"modified":"2025-10-21T23:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T23:56:39","slug":"who-speaks-for-the-hard-working-taxpayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17739","title":{"rendered":"Who speaks for the hard-working taxpayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/21\/who-speaks-for-the-hard-working-taxpayer\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/21\/who-speaks-for-the-hard-working-taxpayer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>in Madison-area local government? Sheriff Kalvin Barrett warns that he will not be able to run the new county jail, currently under construction, if the Dane County Board slashes 28 deputy positions, as Supv. Heidi Wegleitner proposes.\u00a0 That\u2019s just fine with Madison\u2019s downtown, Tenney Park-area supervisor, for she is steadfastly Defund the Police, like so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/21\/who-speaks-for-the-hard-working-taxpayer\/ in Madison-area local government? Sheriff Kalvin Barrett warns that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17740,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions\/17740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}