{"id":17757,"date":"2025-10-23T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17757"},"modified":"2025-10-23T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:59:15","slug":"this-county-board-is-for-them-not-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17757","title":{"rendered":"This county board is for them, not us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/23\/this-county-board-is-for-them-not-us\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/23\/this-county-board-is-for-them-not-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Progressives protect their own! When a county committee voted to strip the sheriff of 28 deputy positions, (first reported here) it wasn\u2019t to alleviate a $31 million budget deficit. No, they\u2019re going to spend that $3.76 million of lost safety protection \u2014 just on other things. Like homeless shelters and more human services. Yes, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/10\/23\/this-county-board-is-for-them-not-us\/ Progressives protect their own! When a county committee voted&#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-17757","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\/17757","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=17757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17758,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17757\/revisions\/17758"}],"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=17757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}