{"id":27675,"date":"2020-08-28T16:12:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27675"},"modified":"2020-08-28T16:12:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T23:12:13","slug":"melissa-fox-blasts-steven-chois-failure-to-support-usps-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27675","title":{"rendered":"MELISSA FOX BLASTS STEVEN CHOI\u2019S FAILURE TO SUPPORT USPS RESTORATION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IRVINE, CA<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, times, times new roman, serif; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/span>Today, Irvine Councilwoman Melissa Fox responded to Assemblyman Steven Choi\u2019s failure to support a resolution in the California Assembly that calls on the federal government to restore the United States Postal Service to guarantee the timely delivery of vote by mail ballots for the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Fox stated:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this week, the California Assembly voted 50-0 in favor of a resolution that urges the federal administration to \u2018cease and desist from all efforts to reduce the ability of voters to cast their ballots by mail or diminish public con\ufb01dence in the vote by mail program as it relates to the November 3, 2020, general election\u2019 and demands that United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy immediately restore all mailboxes and mail sorters back to the communities from which they were removed.<\/p>\n<p>But Steven Choi was nowhere to be found. \u00a0Assemblyman Choi again failed to show up to vote. \u00a0In fact, Choi has one of the highest no-show rates in the California legislature.<\/p>\n<p>I would have voted in favor of this common-sense resolution to protect our nation\u2019s mail system, something that should be immune from partisan attack. It\u2019s time for us in District 68 to have a representative in Sacramento who cares about the critical issues facing their constituents and shows up to do the job they were elected to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRVINE, CA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Today, Irvine Councilwoman 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-27675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675","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=27675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27676,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27675\/revisions\/27676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}