{"id":234192,"date":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-july-21-2017-2\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-july-21-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-july-21-2017-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 July 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Correction to your coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just received the latest edition of your local Mission Valley newspaper.\u00a0In the article on SoccerCity, you state that the city council vote was 5-4 against holding the special election.\u00a0I believe I read the vote was 8-1 with only Scott Sherman in favor of the special election.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Faulconer certainly has the right to use his veto power for this vote, however misguided that it is.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody wants this special election that will cost the city $5 million.\u00a0And while it may be true that the Stone Group did get enough signatures to\u00a0qualify for the ballot, this was before SDSU dropped out of the deal.\u00a0I doubt they could get the signatures now to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>SoccerCity is a bad plan to benefit a handful of people.\u00a0As the saying goes &#8220;you can put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Mike Culver, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s note and correction: The council did indeed vote 8-1 in favor of the budget, which included the removal of funds for the special election. We regret the error. The 5-4 number reflected the number of councilmembers who did not support the special election to the number that did as reflected in comments during the meeting. Again, we regret the error.]<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correction to your coverage I just received the latest edition of your local Mission Valley newspaper.\u00a0In the article on SoccerCity, you state that the city council vote was 5-4 against holding the special election.\u00a0I believe I read the vote was 8-1 with only Scott Sherman in favor of the special election.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":234185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11557","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the Editor \u2013 July 21, 2017","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11557,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mission-valley-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}