{"id":40654,"date":"2016-07-29T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=40654"},"modified":"2016-07-27T11:59:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:59:08","slug":"commissioners-put-firefighter-paycheck-firefighters-union-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/07\/commissioners-put-firefighter-paycheck-firefighters-union-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners Put Firefighter Paycheck &#038; Firefighters Union First"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40655\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40655\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40655\" title=\"Fire Comm Becker and Adams\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Fire-Comm-Becker-and-Adams.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"209\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40655\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire Commissioners Becker and Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Written by A Barrett, Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>During the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District\u2019s monthly board meeting Fire Commissioner Larry Becker made the comment \u201cI have 127 firefighter to worry about.\u201d Then quickly corrected himself by adding \u201cand the 100,000 residents of this district.\u201d Seemingly, as an afterthought.<\/p>\n<p>Now readers maybe ask yourselves why Fire Commissioner Larry Becker would such a comment and sadly the answer is all too clear when you look in the right places. Fire Commissioner Larry Becker and another Fire Commissioner David Adams have deep ties to the International Association of Fire Fighters local #1826 and Retire Fire Chief John Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>The International Association of Fire Fighters local #1826 has given large sums of money to each of their past election campaigns. We also have sources in the International Association of Fire Fighters local #1826 saying that both Fire Commissioner Larry Becker and Fire Commissioner David Adams may have taking brides to get them to vote how the union wanted them too. But this is unconfirmed as to the writing of this article.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->When asked to comment on this matter, both Fire Commissioner Larry Becker &amp; Fire Commissioner David Adams refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Now with this new round of elections we the taxpayers need to ask ourselves, where the money is coming from that each candidate is spending on their campaign and which candidate is only a mouth piece for the International Association of Fire Fighters local #1826?<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to cover this story over this election cycle and keep you informed on the facts of where candidates are getting their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by A Barrett, Lehigh Acres Gazette Staff Writer During the Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District\u2019s monthly board meeting Fire Commissioner Larry Becker made the comment \u201cI have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40654"}],"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=40654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}