{"id":1029,"date":"2020-06-03T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2020-06-03T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:10:14","slug":"barnhart-statement-on-judges-boe-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"Barnhart Statement on Judge&#8217;s BOE Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Legislator Barnhart issued the following statement:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judge Ark clearly wants to see Democratic committee members choose our next Board of Elections Commissioner. His directive to allow an election to proceed was a victory for democracy, for the party and for voters. We cannot allow a backroom deal to choose a position of such importance and trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want a Board of Elections that doesn\u2019t engage in intra-party politics. I want a commissioner who stays out of Democratic primaries. I want an office that hires good people, regardless of their political loyalties. An open and transparent process is the best way to ensure the integrity of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestercitynewspaper.com\/rochester\/judge-gives-democrats-authority-to-choose-elections-commissioner\/Content?oid=11854189\">City Newspaper coverage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2020\/06\/02\/monroe-county-democratic-committee-can-vote-elections-commissioner\/5316750002\/\">Democrat and Chronicle coverage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislator Barnhart issued the following statement: Judge Ark clearly wants to see Democratic committee members choose our next Board of Elections Commissioner. His directive to allow an election to proceed was a victory for democracy, for the party and for voters. We cannot allow a backroom deal to choose a position of such importance and&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/?p=1029\">Continue Reading<span> Barnhart Statement on Judge&#8217;s BOE Decision<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"spectra_blocks_featured_image_url":null,"spectra_blocks_author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel Barnhart","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8668089d3b1c60b2b1f51f9c490f09dbcbed1353b6c7df228edda0e90124e38d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_link":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/?author=1","description":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachbarnhart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}