{"id":2514,"date":"2013-05-06T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2014-06-17T02:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T02:16:36","slug":"tasha-says-use-your-voice-and-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?p=2514","title":{"rendered":"Tasha says: use your voice and vote!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasha and all her doggie friends urge you to vote. When it&#8217;s time for budgets, policies,\u00a0and allocation of\u00a0your tax dollars, you should have a voice. Where to start? KERA has a great <a title=\"2013 voting guide\" href=\"http:\/\/keranews.org\/topic\/vote-2013-what-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\">voting guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Early Voting: <strong>April 29-May 7 (one more day!)\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\nElection Day: <strong>May 11<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you live in\u00a0District 1, like <a title=\"Tasha the Husky\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?page_id=877\" target=\"_blank\">Tasha the\u00a0husky<\/a>,\u00a0 redistricting has placed current Dallas City Council members Scott Griggs and Delia Jasso in the same North Oak Cliff district.\u00a0Here is a <a title=\"Griggs and Jasso key questions\" href=\"http:\/\/keranews.org\/post\/6-key-questions-dallas-council-district-1-battle-incumbents\" target=\"_blank\">great guide to the battle of the incumbents<\/a>\u00a0and what they stand for.<\/p>\n<p>On the road to change,\u00a0we have our next follow up meeting with <a title=\"Scott Griggs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascityhall.com\/government\/CityCouncil\/District3\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">city councilman Scott Griggs<\/a>,\u00a0 <a title=\"Dallas Animal Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasanimalservices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Services<\/a> Director Jody Jones, and <a title=\"Dallas Animal Shelter Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasanimalservices.org\/commission.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Animal Shelter Commission <\/a>member Chris Watts scheduled for May 13th. We will be reviewing the report from Jody Jones and discussing next steps towards\u00a0field services policy reform at Animal Services.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the <a title=\"Tasha goes to City Hall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/?p=1999\" target=\"_blank\">original post and our agenda from the last meeting <\/a>on a previous post.<\/p>\n<p>Rock the vote ya&#8217;ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasha and all her doggie friends urge you to vote. When it&#8217;s time for budgets, policies,\u00a0and allocation of\u00a0your tax dollars, you should have a voice. Where to start? KERA has a great voting guide. Early Voting: April 29-May 7 (one more day!)\u00a0 Election Day: May 11 If you live in\u00a0District 1, like Tasha the\u00a0husky,\u00a0 redistricting has placed current Dallas City Council members Scott Griggs and Delia Jasso in the same North Oak Cliff district.\u00a0Here is a great guide to the battle of the incumbents\u00a0and what they stand for. On the road to change,\u00a0we have our next follow up meeting with city councilman Scott Griggs,\u00a0 Animal Services Director Jody Jones, and Dallas Animal Shelter Commission member Chris Watts scheduled for May 13th. We will be reviewing the report from Jody Jones and discussing next steps towards\u00a0field services policy reform at Animal Services. You can read the original post and our agenda from the last meeting on a previous post. Rock the vote ya&#8217;ll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-follow-our-progress-with-the-city","category-featured-1","category-this-that","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TashaCItyHall.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gypsydogops.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}