{"id":45330,"date":"2019-03-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-alaska-needs-more-legislators-like-les-gara\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T11:00:00","slug":"opinion-alaska-needs-more-legislators-like-les-gara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-alaska-needs-more-legislators-like-les-gara\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Alaska needs more legislators like Les Gara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska needs more legislators like Les Gara.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/opinion-gov-dunleavys-budget-and-the-damge-it-would-cause\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Gara: Gov. Dunleavy&rsquo;s budget and the damage it would cause]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>When he was a representative in the legislature and vice chair of the House Finance Committee, things got done. Now, since it is an all Republican-led Senate, there&rsquo;s no respect for the the people of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>If a person is not rich or pro oil, they are not listened to on the Senate floor or in committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Burk,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things got done under his watch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45330"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}