{"id":20687,"date":"2019-12-16T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20687"},"modified":"2019-12-16T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T06:30:12","slug":"california-plumbing-and-pipe-workers-endorse-josh-newman-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=20687","title":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA PLUMBING AND PIPE WORKERS ENDORSE JOSH NEWMAN FOR SENATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The California State Pipe Trades Council Endorses Josh Newman for State Senate District 29<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ORANGE COUNTY, CA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; In a reflection of his extensive support from working men and women, today U.S. Army veteran, businessman, and former State Senator Josh Newman secured a key endorsement from the California State Pipe Trades Council.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released with the announced endorsement, California State Pipe Trades Council Executive Director Mike Layton commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe California State Pipe Trades Council is proud to endorse Josh Newman in his rematch bid for State Senate District 29. During his time in the State Legislature, Josh was a force on behalf of working families, protecting workers rights, combating income inequality, increasing access to healthcare, backing California&#8217;s tough workers&#8217; rights laws, rebuilding our infrastructure to create more good jobs, and fighting for more investments in job-training as well as retirement benefits for working people. We know Josh will be a champion for working families and that&#8217;s why he has our full and enthusiastic support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the announced endorsement, Newman commented:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m honored and grateful to receive the endorsement of the\u00a0California State Pipe Trades Council. I&#8217;m very proud of the work we accomplished when I was in the State Senate, from expanding access to affordable healthcare; to forward-thinking policies on workers\u2019 rights and investments in infrastructure, to fighting for more good jobs that lift up working families and help to grow our middle-class economy. I&#8217;m grateful for their support and confidence, and look forward to continuing to partner\u00a0with them to fight for an economy that works for every Californian.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California State Pipe Trades Council&#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-20687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687","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=20687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20688,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20687\/revisions\/20688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}