{"id":297326,"date":"2026-06-26T18:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297326"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:37:24","slug":"letter-restoring-balance-breaking-the-loop-of-public-union-dues-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=297326","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Restoring balance \u2013 Breaking the loop of public union dues and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hines argues Washington&#8217;s payroll systems actively collect dues funneled into partisan political campaigns&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkcountytoday.com\/opinion\/letter-restoring-balance-breaking-the-loop-of-public-union-dues-and-politics\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=letter-restoring-balance-breaking-the-loop-of-public-union-dues-and-politics\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hines argues Washington&#8217;s payroll systems actively collect dues funneled into partisan political campaigns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":297327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/297327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297326"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=297326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}