{"id":42437,"date":"2020-04-26T14:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42437"},"modified":"2020-04-26T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T14:33:59","slug":"heres-how-you-make-it-right-mme-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42437","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how you make it right, Mme. Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23BeckyAmes%20%23nailgate%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42438\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/gallery_xlarge.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames has asked residents of the Southeast Texas city she governs for forgiveness. Why? She got caught getting a nail treatment in a salon, in violation of the order she issued to residents to stay away from such businesses during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Ames&#8217; letter of apology was forthright and, I believe, sincere.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 this thought occurred to my wife this morning at the breakfast table and I want to share it here.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Ames might be prosecuted by the Jefferson County district attorney&#8217;s office for violating the order. The maximum fine if she is convicted is $1,000. I already have said in an earlier post that Ames ought to be pay the fine if the DA, Bob Wortham, determines sufficient cause for prosecution and conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Ames ought to pony up the dough anyway, if she isn&#8217;t prosecuted, and contribute <em>at least<\/em> a thousand bucks to a worthwhile charity in Beaumont.\u00a0Hmm, who or what might get such a donation? Food banks? A retirement center? Emergency medical services providers? The Beaumont police or fire departments? A service employee union office?<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Ames&#8217; request for forgiveness from her constituents would be honored in full, my wife and I happen to believe, were she to take a <em>proactive<\/em> stance \u2026 even if local authorities decide against slapping her on the wrist with a fine.\u00a0She might even consider doing so in <em>addition<\/em> to the wrist-slap sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Voters can be forgiving if their elected leaders <em>demonstrate<\/em> true contrition.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=pandemic%20%23BeckyAmes%20%23nailgate%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames has asked residents of the Southeast Texas city she governs for forgiveness. Why? She got caught getting a nail treatment in a salon, in violation of the order she issued to residents to stay away from such businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. Ames&#8217; letter of apology was forthright and, I believe, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Here&#8217;s how you make it right, Mme. Mayor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8536,9327,9236,9261],"class_list":["post-42437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beaumont-city-council","tag-becky-ames","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42439,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions\/42439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}