{"id":93285,"date":"2022-11-29T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-ranked-choice-is-successful\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T07:30:00","slug":"opinion-ranked-choice-is-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-ranked-choice-is-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Ranked choice is successful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska&rsquo;s first experience with ranked choice boting has brought a more moderate state Legislature and congressional delegation.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-member Senate coalition includes nine Democrats and eight Republicans who have pledged to work together. Hopefully, the House will follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>As an Alaska Native descendant, I am particularly pleased with the election of Mary Peltola to the U.S. House. By eliminating closed primaries, RCV also provided Sen. Lisa Murkowski a way to win another term without having to launch another write-in campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The political atmosphere in Alaska now appears to offer some hope that lawmakers can finally work across the aisle to solve some of the many problems facing the state.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rodger Painter, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Douglas<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><ins><em>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><\/em><\/ins><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s now hope that lawmakers can finally work across the aisle to solve problems. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":93286,"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-93285","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\/93285","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=93285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93285"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=93285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}