{"id":20377,"date":"2019-11-21T14:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20377"},"modified":"2019-11-21T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:53:38","slug":"contreras-secures-powerhouse-endorsement-from-congresswoman-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20377","title":{"rendered":"CONTRERAS SECURES POWERHOUSE ENDORSEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN SANCHEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Congresswoman Gives Critical Support to Westminster Councilman Sergio Contreras\u2019s Supervisor Bid<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WESTMINSTER, CA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0Continuing his unrelenting momentum in the race for Orange County Board of Supervisors District 1, Westminster City Councilmember Sergio Contreras today earned the coveted endorsement of U.S. Congresswoman Linda Sanchez. \u00a0Sanchez, who represents California\u2019s 38th Congressional District that\u00a0encompasses eastern LA County and Orange County,\u00a0is the latest elected official to announce their enthusiastic support of Contreras, whose campaign continues to build momentum towards the March primary.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released with the announced endorsement, Congresswoman Sanchez remarked:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to endorse Sergio Contreras for OC Board of Supervisors because I believe he is the best candidate to flip the 1st District blue.\u00a0 As a local School Board member and City Councilmember, Sergio has been an effective leader working to build consensus on complicated issues and a strong advocate for better wages, protecting our environment, and public safety. I look forward to helping him secure victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s news follows Contreras\u2019 announcement earlier this week that his campaign has raised more than $100,000. Contreras leads the field of candidates in endorsements and fundraising by a wide margin, demonstrating that he has\u00a0strong, broad-based support and is far and away the strongest candidate to flip the seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Gives Critical Support to Westminster&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20378,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20377\/revisions\/20378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}