{"id":28268,"date":"2020-09-26T12:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28268"},"modified":"2020-09-26T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:51:17","slug":"melissa-fox-tops-steven-choi-in-final-fundraising-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28268","title":{"rendered":"MELISSA FOX TOPS STEVEN CHOI IN FINAL FUNDRAISING REPORT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Irvine Councilwoman Melissa Fox More Than Doubles Figure Raised Assemblyman Steven Choi<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/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 reflection of the unrelenting enthusiasm and energy behind her bid for AD-68, today Irvine Councilwoman Melissa Fox\u2019s campaign announced that it had significantly outraised sitting incumbent Assemblymember Steven Choi in the final fundraising report before the November 3rd election.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports recently made public, Fox brought in $821,404, more than double the $314,800 total that Choi raised during the period.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released following the fundraising report Councilwoman Fox commented:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply grateful for the overwhelming and wide-ranging support our campaign has received, fueled by working families, women, small business owners, environmentalists, activists, and neighborhood leaders. These strong numbers show that voters in the 68th District are eager for a change and for common-sense leadership from their representatives in Sacramento. I am extremely thankful to our grassroots contributors who power this campaign and made this possible, especially in these challenging times, and look forward to expanding and enhancing our efforts in the final weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Fox&#8217;s\u00a0campaign\u00a0a new video ad targeting her opponent Steven Choi\u2019s failed response to the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irvine Councilwoman Melissa Fox More Than&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28268","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=28268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28269,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28268\/revisions\/28269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}