{"id":1857,"date":"2017-03-07T07:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2017-03-07T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T12:51:20","slug":"poll-handful-of-warm-cottage-cheese-more-popular-than-four-mayoral-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2017\/03\/07\/poll-handful-of-warm-cottage-cheese-more-popular-than-four-mayoral-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Handful of warm cottage cheese more popular than four mayoral candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A recent poll of eligible Chattanooga voters has revealed that most would prefer to have a handful of warm cottage cheese as the next mayor of Chattanooga instead of any of the four mayoral candidates: incumbent Andy Berke, David Crockett, Larry Grohn and Chris Long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;A handful of warm cottage cheese is a viable write-in candidate,&#8221; said local political analyst Kris Collendair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voters are looking at the current slate of candidates and are not happy,&#8221; said Collendair. &#8220;You&#8217;re looking at the status quo and ineffective policies for reducing violence, or certain outdated civil-rights stances regarding LGBT issues or making Chattanooga essentially a suburb of Atlanta by advocating a high-speed rail system between the two cities.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This handful of warm cottage cheese is just the no-nonsense candidate that people can relate to,&#8221; said Collendair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Polls are open today for the <a href=\"http:\/\/elect.hamiltontn.gov\/\">Chattanooga mayoral election<\/a> from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent poll of eligible Chattanooga voters has revealed that most would prefer to have a handful of warm cottage cheese as the next mayor of Chattanooga instead of any of the four mayoral candidates: incumbent Andy Berke, David Crockett, Larry Grohn and Chris Long. &#8220;A handful of warm cottage cheese is a viable write-in candidate,&#8221; said local political analyst Kris Collendair. &#8220;Voters are looking at the current slate of candidates and are not happy,&#8221; said Collendair. &#8220;You&#8217;re looking at the status quo and ineffective policies for reducing violence, or certain outdated civil-rights stances regarding LGBT issues or making Chattanooga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}