{"id":26834,"date":"2020-07-13T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26834"},"modified":"2020-07-13T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:05:46","slug":"democratic-municipal-officials-names-melissa-fox-a-blue-star-rising-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26834","title":{"rendered":"DEMOCRATIC MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS NAMES MELISSA FOX A BLUE STAR RISING RECIPIENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Longtime Member of DMO Melissa Fox Earns the Esteemed Organization\u2019s Highest Distinction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>IRVINE, CA<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span>In a celebration of her commitment to serving her community on the Irvine City Council, today Irvine City Councilmember Melissa Fox was named a Blue Star Rising Candidate by the Democratic Municipal Officials (DMO), one of the organization\u2019s highest distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>The DMO is a national association of Democratic elected mayors, city council members, and other municipal leaders, with over 6,000 members. It is a constituency organization of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).<\/p>\n<p>DMO President Scott Benson released the following statement announcing their support for Fox\u2019s campaign for Assembly District 68:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board of Directors of Democratic Municipal Officials is honored to name Councilmember Melissa Fox a Blue Star Rising Candidate as she seeks a position in the California State Assembly. We know her to be a fierce leader who embodies Democratic values and a motivation to improve the well being of every resident of her district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a statement responding to the honor, Councilmember Fox commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to earn the Democratic Municipal Officials Blue Star Rising candidate distinction. I\u2019m proud to have a strong record of delivering results for my community and standing up for justice for all, improved infrastructure across the state, pay equity for women, maintaining and preserving good middle-class jobs, and protecting our precious environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Member of DMO Melissa Fox&#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-26834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26834","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=26834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26835,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26834\/revisions\/26835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}