{"id":7795,"date":"2011-09-14T17:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2011-11-18T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T19:19:13","slug":"the-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=7795","title":{"rendered":"The Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/iStock_000006982082XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7809\" title=\"iStock_000006982082XSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/iStock_000006982082XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/iStock_000006982082XSmall.jpg 283w, http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/iStock_000006982082XSmall-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The canvassers are here.\u00a0\u00a0 As promised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/2011\/09\/06\/hiring-now\/\">Craigslist<\/a>, two friendly fellows are going door-to-door in my neighborhood, leaving the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition&#8217;s (BSEC) big flier.<\/p>\n<p>According to Canvasser Kevin, they work for Rocky Mountain Voter Outreach, an organization which has been engaged by the BSEC to send paid canvassers door-to-door in Boulder speaking against Ballot Issues 2B and 2C.\u00a0 Kevin insisted that the BSEC is not supported by Xcel, and continued to assert that even after I cited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/2011\/08\/20\/minneapolis-st-paul-business-journal-xcel-aggressively-fighting-citys-move-to-create-own-utility\/\">articles<\/a> to the contrary.\u00a0 I also asked him about Ms. Karey Christ-Janer, featured in the flier as a neighbor, but who actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/boulder-county-news\/ci_18888335\">doesn&#8217;t live in Boulder<\/a>.\u00a0 He said that she is a part-time resident and founder of RenewablesNow (sic).\u00a0 Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a trained reporter, I would have asked to hear their spiel, but I didn&#8217;t, so if they visit you, we&#8217;d love to hear from you.\u00a0 Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/contact-us-2\/\">drop us a line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The canvassers are here.\u00a0\u00a0 As promised by Craigslist, two friendly fellows are going door-to-door in my neighborhood, leaving the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition&#8217;s (BSEC) big flier. According to Canvasser Kevin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[386,497,162,101],"class_list":["post-7795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-bsec","tag-election-2011","tag-municipalization","tag-xcel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7795"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7795\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}