{"id":85722,"date":"2026-10-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=85722"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:09:30","slug":"letter-polk-county-commissioners-deserve-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/10\/23\/letter-polk-county-commissioners-deserve-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Polk County Commissioners Deserve Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Mike Schmidt<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cSilencing citizens\u201d and \u201ccontrolling the narrative,\u201d as Braswell suggests, are COMMUNISM, the likes of China and Russia. I can\u2019t believe our Commissioners, who are our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES, would even consider this. How else will they know the wishes of their constituents and how they should vote as our \u201crepresentatives\u201d, unless they hear our opinions or read our comments? They DON\u2019T\u2026 and they don\u2019t care to, because they are \u201cCommissioners\u201d and they know what\u2019s best for us. Just ask them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They should be ASHAMED of their actions. AGAIN\u2026THIS IS COMMUNISM RIGHT HERE IN POLK COUNTY\u2026 so SHUT UP AND LIKE IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s time for a RECALL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Mike Schmidt \u201cSilencing citizens\u201d and \u201ccontrolling the narrative,\u201d as Braswell suggests, are COMMUNISM, the likes of China and Russia. I can\u2019t believe our Commissioners, who are our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9TY3JlZW5zaG90LTEtMjYud2VicCIsInR4dCI6IkxldHRlcjogUG9sayBDb3VudHkgQ29tbWlzc2lvbmVycyBEZXNlcnZlIFJlY2FsbCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.qSsS4scpC9qhhIs5Qe66JCv-ZiR048DbSGszL6R0YZQMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzEwXC9TY3JlZW5zaG90LTEtMjYud2VicCIsInR4dCI6IkxldHRlcjogUG9sayBDb3VudHkgQ29tbWlzc2lvbmVycyBEZXNlcnZlIFJlY2FsbCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.qSsS4scpC9qhhIs5Qe66JCv-ZiR048DbSGszL6R0YZQMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[18472,18469,16518,18471,15298,18473,18470],"class_list":["post-85722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters","tag-citizens","tag-commissioners","tag-community-news","tag-elected-officials","tag-local-government","tag-public-opinion","tag-recall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85724,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85722\/revisions\/85724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}