{"id":844,"date":"2017-07-16T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/07\/16\/3-reasons-supporters-push-annexation-reform\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:10:00","slug":"3-reasons-supporters-push-annexation-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/3-reasons-supporters-push-annexation-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Supporters Push Annexation Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former aid to VP Cheney makes the case for annexation reform with these 3 arguments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current system doesn&#8217;t support a person&#8217;s ability to choose where they live\n<ul>\n<li>If you shoose to live outside the city, you should be able to stay outside of the city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its undemocratic not to allow a vote by the owners who are being annexed\n<ul>\n<li>And this is unTexan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reform should apply for all Texans, not just Texans in big cities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary-why-texas-should-push-back-against-involuntary-annexations\/RJBR5sVYprKvQvDOHns1ZO\/\">Commentary: Why Texas should push back against involuntary annexations | Statesman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2017\/07\/13\/annexation-without-representation\">Commentary: No annexation without representation | Dallas Morning News\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former aid to VP Cheney makes the case for annexation reform with these 3 arguments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current system doesn&#8217;t support a person&#8217;s ability to choose where they live\n<ul>\n<li>If you shoose to live outside the city, you should be able to stay outside of the city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its undemocratic not to allow a vote by the owners who are being annexed\n<ul>\n<li>And this is unTexan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Reform should apply for all Texans, not just Texans in big cities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary-why-texas-should-push-back-against-involuntary-annexations\/RJBR5sVYprKvQvDOHns1ZO\/\">Commentary: Why Texas should push back against involuntary annexations |\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,43,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-annexation","category-legislation-trend","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}