{"id":205365,"date":"2026-04-29T05:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=205365"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:53:02","slug":"spouse-doesnt-like-campaign-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/04\/29\/spouse-doesnt-like-campaign-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Spouse doesn&#8217;t like campaign tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>To the Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I taught second grade for many years. When a child got caught in a lie, I&#8217;d sit them down and explain something simple: telling the truth is always better \u2014 because if I found out they lied on top of whatever they did, that was double trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about that lesson during this campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m Deb Hoops, and my husband Jim is running for State Senate in District 1. We&#8217;ve been married 37 years. I know him better than anyone \u2014 better than the people running ads about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim sponsored legislation that cut property taxes by $3 billion. He supported the income tax cut in the last state budget. He co-sponsored House Bill 68 to keep biological males out of girls&#8217; sports. More than 50 local officials in the 1st Senate District have endorsed him \u2014 because they&#8217;ve watched him deliver, year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His opponent has a different story to tell about Jim. It isn&#8217;t true. And Craig Riedel knows it isn&#8217;t true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Riedel, you&#8217;re in double trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please join me on May 5 in voting for my husband, Jim Hoops, for State Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deb Hoops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Napoleon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor, I taught second grade for many years. When a child got caught in a lie, I&#8217;d sit them down and explain something simple: telling the truth is always better \u2014 because if I found out they lied on top of whatever they did, that was double trouble. I&#8217;ve been thinking about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 09:06:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205366,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205365\/revisions\/205366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}