{"id":21544,"date":"2020-02-03T13:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21544"},"modified":"2020-02-03T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T21:16:49","slug":"foley-adds-another-key-endorsement-in-her-campaign-for-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=21544","title":{"rendered":"FOLEY ADDS ANOTHER KEY ENDORSEMENT IN HER CAMPAIGN FOR STATE SENATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>COSTA MESA, CA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Reinforcing her status as the clear choice in the race for State Senate District 37 among leading women\u2019s organizations, Costa Mesa Mayor Katrina Foley announced today that she was endorsed by the California National Organization for Women (CA NOW)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In a statement released following the announced endorsement, Kolieka Seigle, President of CA NOW said,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The perfect candidate to defeat John Moorlach is a woman, and her name is Katrina Foley. As a public servant with more than 15 years of experience, including as Costa Mesa\u2019s first directly elected mayor, she has demonstrated her ability to implement California\u2019s progressive agenda. Mayor Foley has shattered the glass ceiling time after time. She was instrumental in helping elect two young women to the City Council, making it a female majority for the first time; she appointed the city\u2019s first female city manager; and she hired the first female energy and sustainability services manager. California NOW couldn\u2019t ask for a stronger candidate to support.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211; Kolieka Seigle, President of CA NOW<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cI am deeply honored to receive the support of California NOW,\u201d said Katrina Foley. \u201cI am proud to share California NOW\u2019s commitment to gender equality and empowerment.\u00a0 I am looking forward to continuing to work with California NOW and other organizations in standing up for a woman\u2019s right to choose, equality in the workplace and society, and greater representation for all women.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The momentum behind Foley&#8217;s campaign has continued to swell, particularly in recent weeks with Foley securing a vast array of endorsements from some of California\u2019s key organizations and leaders. They include the California Labor Federation, the California Highway Patrol, the California Professional Firefighters, EMILY&#8217;s List, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Fund Her, Congressman Harley Rouda, Senators Connie Leyva, Lena Gonzales and Cathleen Galgiani, Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris and others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Primary election will be held on March 3, 2020.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COSTA MESA, CA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Reinforcing her status as&#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-21544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544","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=21544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21545,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21544\/revisions\/21545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}