{"id":5234,"date":"2010-09-27T11:02:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2010-09-27T11:02:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T16:02:30","slug":"media-talk-get-the-vote-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/09\/media-talk-get-the-vote-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Talk: Get the vote out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Siegel, professor of Political Science, is quoted in two local stories about the Oct. 25 municipal election. &#8220;Get the vote out&#8221; appeared in the <em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em> on Sept. 21. Elections at all levels of government in Canada are suffering from an acute lack of voters, Siegel said, but local elections always have the lowest voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A taxing issue to contemplate&#8221; appeared in the <em>Niagara Falls Review<\/em> on Sept. 25. Freezing taxes sounds good in an election platform, Siegel says, but it creates problems afterward. &#8220;When people haven&#8217;t served in office, they always think they can cut taxes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2766814\" target=\"_blank\">Get the vote out \u2014\u00a0<em>St. Catharines Standard<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2773163\" target=\"_blank\">A taxing issue to contemplate \u2014\u00a0<em>Niagara Falls Review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Siegel, professor of Political Science, is quoted in two local stories about the Oct. 25 municipal election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5246,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}