{"id":47,"date":"2026-01-22T22:59:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:40:59","slug":"issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-251\" src=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MO_capitol_stl_03232025-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MO_capitol_stl_03232025-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/votececil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MO_capitol_stl_03232025.jpeg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Missourians deserve a government that works for the people\u2014not for parties, lobbyists, or insiders. As an independent candidate, I believe in leadership that protects liberty, rewards hard work, and restores accountability at every level of government. My platform focuses on four key areas: tax reform, law enforcement accountability, children\u2019s rights, homelessness, and winter roads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=219\"><strong>Tax Reform <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=213\"><strong>Law Enforcement <\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=211\"><strong>Children\u2019s Rights\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=215\">Homelessness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/votececil.com\/?page_id=217\">Winter Roads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missourians deserve a government that works for the people\u2014not for parties, lobbyists, or insiders. As an independent candidate, I believe in leadership that protects liberty, rewards hard work, and restores accountability at every level of government. My platform focuses on four key areas: tax reform, law enforcement accountability, children\u2019s rights, homelessness, and winter roads. Tax&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"hide","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/votececil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}