{"id":694,"date":"2011-10-01T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-01T17:51:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T17:51:29","slug":"mayors-44-states-respond-mischaracterizations-general-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/mayors-44-states-respond-mischaracterizations-general-aviation\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Mayors from 44 States Respond to Mischaracterizations of General Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Alliance for Aviation Across America released a letter from 77 mayors from 44 states around the <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"131\" height=\"181\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Salena S.jpg\" \/>country to President Obama expressing concern about recent mischaracterizations and potential new proposed tax burdens on general aviation.&nbsp; Mayor Carl Brewer of Wichita, KS and Mayor James P. Councill, III of Franklin, VA joined Alliance Executive Director Selena Shilad (pictured at right) on a tele-conference call with reporters to discuss the importance of the industry as a whole to the economy, which supports over 1.2 million jobs and $150 billion in economic impact.&nbsp; The participants on the call also highlighted the role of general aviation and their community airports in supporting local employers and jobs, and providing access to a host of important services and resources, including medical care, law enforcement, disaster relief, mail delivery, fire fighting and flight training. <\/p>\n<p>To see a list of all the Mayors and City\/Town officials who have signed-on to the letter and to see how your Mayor or City\/Town Manager can sign-on, go to: http:\/\/www.aviationacrossamerica.org\/Content.aspx?id=22438 <\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Alliance for Aviation Across America released a letter from 77 mayors from 44 states around the country to President Obama expressing concern about recent mischaracterizations and potential new proposed tax burdens on general aviation.&nbsp; Mayor Carl Brewer of Wichita, KS and Mayor James P. Councill, III of Franklin, VA joined Alliance Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Salena S.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}