{"id":1156,"date":"2006-05-11T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T23:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2006\/05\/11\/prop-this\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T23:13:48","slug":"prop-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/prop-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days until the election that&#8217;ll include a rubber stamp for our current mayor and other things that don&#8217;t generally garner too much attention like school board and city council seats. There&#8217;s also 7 city charter amendment propositions. 1, 2 and 6 appear to be the most hotly contested. My gut feel would be to vote yes for all of them, but 1 and 2 seem to be getting some opposition from places you wouldn&#8217;t expect.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news8austin.com\/content\/top_stories\/default.asp?ArID=161806\">News8Austin has a little more info<\/a> on 1 and 2.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opennetworks.org\/founders\/scott-s-technology-blog\/new-and-improved-ballot-language-technical-discussion\">Here&#8217;s some in-depth<\/a> on Prop 1.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinchronicle.com\/issues\/dispatch\/2006-05-12\/pols_feature7.html\">Here&#8217;s what the Chronicle has to say<\/a>. (They&#8217;re divided on 1 and 2 as well, so they&#8217;re no help.)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/local\/elections_local.html\">The Statesman weighs in.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/wheres_my_preci.phtml\">M.J.L. posted<\/a>, make sure you&#8217;re going to the right polling place. She also linked the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leaguewv.austin.tx.us\/votersguide\/VGMay2006.pdf\">League of Women Voters Guide<\/a> for this election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days until the election that&#8217;ll include a rubber stamp for our current mayor and other things that don&#8217;t generally garner too much attention like school board and city council seats. There&#8217;s also 7 city charter amendment propositions. 1, 2 and 6 appear to be the most hotly contested. My gut feel would be to <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/prop-this\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-iE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}