{"id":15496,"date":"2012-11-03T17:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=15496"},"modified":"2012-11-04T20:57:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T02:57:20","slug":"welch-in-a-pigs-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/11\/welch-in-a-pigs-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Welch: In A Pig’s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Editorial by\u00a0Anthonie P. Barrett
\nSpecial to\u00a0The Lehigh Acres Gazette<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mike Welch: Promises Made, Promises Kept. Right in A Pig’s Eye<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Welch\u2019s website, he \u201cFought against EVERY Tax Increase Effort Since Elected to Office\u201d\u00a0BUT WELCH chooses to take health insurance paid for by the taxpayers. *<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Welch\u2019s website,\u00a0 he \u201cNixed plans for the purchase of an expensive “Taj Mahal” Complex for the District on the Taxpayer’s Dime,\u201d BUT documents show that Welch voted to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more for the new building. **<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welch also has\u00a0 stated in his mailers that he personally is against special interest,\u00a0BUT Welsh took more than $5000 of special interest money for his campaign. ***<\/strong><\/p>\n

So is Welch a politician or just a lair? \u00a0 \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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* According to ECWCD Budget \u00a0** According to ECWCD \u00a0meeting minutes ***
\nAccording to Welch\u2019s campaign report documents click here<\/a><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: The views\u00a0expressed by Anthonie P. Barrett do not necessarily reflect those held by the staff of the\u00a0Lehigh Acres Gazette.<\/em>\u00a0The\u00a0Gazette<\/em>\u00a0provides a venue for people to express their opinions concerning any subject matter and presents this as \u201copinion,\u201d not news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editorial by\u00a0Anthonie P. Barrett Special to\u00a0The Lehigh Acres Gazette Mike Welch: Promises Made, Promises Kept. Right in A Pig’s Eye According to Welch\u2019s website, he \u201cFought against EVERY Tax Increase… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}