{"id":61971,"date":"2024-01-08T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61971"},"modified":"2024-01-08T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T19:43:10","slug":"governor-newsom-declares-special-election-for-20th-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=61971","title":{"rendered":"Governor Newsom Declares Special Election for 20th Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SACRAMENTO<\/strong> \u2013 Governor Gavin Newsom today issued a proclamation declaring a special election for the 20th Congressional District on May 21, 2024. The primary for the special election will be held on<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>March 19, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the proclamation and a copy can be found below:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd a6T\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbfrmQoEHJyCMNvmDIJcCYWioz7jcT74IK8WH9kyK80qjJuJeT-eSdG5uGvDiGJyLZMb9E2VbYx2Bosk-Ll1LRYVhNnqN8jv3tU_acKQRisuwkI8gObXsvZ5ga2iLVDmh5mLXXlRoG2IVqv_gJBTGIwnP7bIq2qIgg=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55\/images\/1e9b981b-6ab4-3c17-94d2-9e6709e86b47.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"922\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>SPECIAL ELECTION PROCLAMATION<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I,\u00a0<strong>GAVIN NEWSOM,\u00a0<\/strong>Governor of the State of California, do hereby proclaim and order the following:<\/p>\n<p>That a special election shall be held on May 21, 2024, within the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Congressional District of the State, to fill the vacancy of the office of the Member of Congress from said district resulting from the resignation of Representative Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN WITNESS WHEREOF\u00a0<\/strong>I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of California to be affixed this 8th day of January 2024.<\/p>\n<p>GAVIN NEWSOM<br \/>\nGovernor of California<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATTEST:<\/strong><br \/>\nSHIRLEY N. WEBER, Ph.D.<br \/>\nSecretary of State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \u2013 Governor Gavin Newsom today&#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-61971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971","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=61971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61972,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61971\/revisions\/61972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}