{"id":5663,"date":"2018-05-18T00:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T00:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:31:19","slug":"ex-official-says-return-civility-to-the-office-of-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/ex-official-says-return-civility-to-the-office-of-da\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-official says, \u2018return civility to the office of D.A.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a political \u2018\u2018hit piece\u2019\u2019 in the mail from the Paul Hornick campaign, which was very similar to the current district attorney\u2019s negative diatribe attacking the third candidate. I wonder if they both use the same campaign manager or if Hornick, working with Linn, has gained the same negative attitude?<\/p>\n<p>Would this negative attitude carry over into the operations of the office that is so prevalent now?<\/p>\n<p>It appears that when a politician has no positive record or things to say about himself, he feels the next best thing is to negatively attack his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to return truth, integrity and high ethical standards to all elected offices.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Moreno has exhibited these attributes in her positive campaign and by not joining the mud-slinging gutter campaign the other two candidates for district attorney have practiced.<\/p>\n<p>When we as citizens and voters mark our ballots to hire a district attorney to represent us and Madera County, ask yourself: Do I want a negative image of our county or a positive one?<\/p>\n<p>As a former member of the Madera County Board of Supervisors, I expect truth, I expect integrity. I expect high ethical standards and certainly expect a positive working attitude from our district attorney. I encourage you to join me and vote for these attributes, attributes that Sally Moreno exhibits, and return civility to the office.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>\u2014 J. Gordon Kennedy,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Former member,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Madera County Board of Supervisors<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a political \u2018\u2018hit piece\u2019\u2019 in the mail from the Paul Hornick campaign, which was very similar to the current district attorney\u2019s negative diatribe attacking the third candidate. I wonder if they both use the same campaign manager or if Hornick, working with Linn, has gained the same negative attitude? Would this negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[39,43],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-government","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}