{"id":91830,"date":"2022-10-04T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-simply-put-vote-no-on-constitutional-conventions\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-simply-put-vote-no-on-constitutional-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-simply-put-vote-no-on-constitutional-conventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Simply put, vote no on constitutional conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m adding my 150 cents worth (cost of today&rsquo;s paper) to the discussion on the upcoming Nov. 8 vote on whether to authorize a constitutional convention; simply put, vote no. Our state constitution is considered an excellent example of a thoughtfully crafted document that takes a measured approach to the rights of Alaska&rsquo;s citizens, the protection of its resources and the avenues for modification (amendment). Please make time to vote on Nov. 8 and vote against holding a constitutional convention.<\/p>\n<p><em>George Reifenstein<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><ins>Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make time to vote on Nov. 8 and vote against holding a constitutional convention <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"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-91830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91830","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=91830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91830"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=91830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}