{"id":2905,"date":"2018-09-08T13:17:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:18:53","slug":"we-deserve-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/we-deserve-better\/","title":{"rendered":"We deserve better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter which side of the aisle you sit on \u2014 one thing we can all agree is important is that our elected officials should work for US. We want representatives who will travel the state, listen to us, and take our concerns with them back to Washington. Unfortunately, Matt Rosendale hasn\u2019t shown me that he can do that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a law-abiding gun owner, a hunter and a concealed-carry permit holder. And when Rosendale first announced his run for Senate, I reached out to him to see where he stood on our Second Amendment rights. Rosendale\u2019s website promised that he would answer my questions \u2014 but after weeks and then months of waiting, I never heard back from him.<\/p>\n<p>If someone wants me to vote for them, the least they can do is respond to my concerns as a Montanan and a gun owner. But Rosendale\u2019s lack<!--more--> of response suggested to me that maybe he is too occupied with fundraising in D.C. and schmoozing with donors to talk to Montanans and answer their questions. He\u2019s barely even had any public events since the primary.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Rosendale seems so opposed to answering Montanans\u2019 questions that he bailed on the first debate of the campaign, even after he pledged to be there! If Rosendale has good ideas for Montana, then why is he afraid to talk about them?<\/p>\n<p>We deserve better than someone who won\u2019t answer our questions or meet with Montanans face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>We all should be careful of who we vote for.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Rogers<\/p>\n<p>Worden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor: It doesn\u2019t matter which side of the aisle you sit on \u2014 one thing we can all agree is important is that our elected officials should work for US. We want representatives who will travel the state, listen … <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/we-deserve-better\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[932],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-mike-rogers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}