{"id":2016,"date":"2009-03-05T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2009-03-05T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T15:31:14","slug":"what_elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"What Elections Are Really Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn the City of Los Angeles, a labor union and environmental coalition assembled an ill-considered effort to have the public utility add electricity from rooftop solar and add a bunch of really highly (over?) paid union jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the measure was defeated (a good thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/lasmayor.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/04\/yes-on-solar-no-on-prop-b\/\" target=\"browser\">for a lot of reasons<\/a>). Here&#8217;s LA Mayor and 2010 Gubernatorial candidate (if you disagree, want to bet?) Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>As Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s Measure B seemed poised for a narrow defeat Wednesday, he held out hope that uncounted votes would save the solar-energy proposal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it passes, but if it doesn&#8217;t even those who are opposed to it said we should move ahead with the solar program, notwithstanding the vote of the people,&#8221; Villaraigosa said. &#8220;I agree.&#8221; <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>So &#8211; remind me why we bother to have elections, again??<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Note that it was a front-page quote in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/ci_11840337\" target=\"browser\">local Daily Breeze<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t find it anywhere on the Los Angeles Times website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Mayor says: &#8220;&#8230;we should move ahead with the solar program, notwithstanding the vote of the people&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}