{"id":6951,"date":"2018-04-12T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:41:59","slug":"california-teachers-association-endorses-mike-eng-for-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=6951","title":{"rendered":"CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ENDORSES MIKE ENG FOR STATE SENATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EL MONTE, CA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0<strong>California Teachers Association (CTA)<\/strong>, representing over 325,000\u00a0teachers, counselors, psychologists, librarians, and other educators in our public schools and colleges\u00a0throughout California, has\u00a0<strong>endorsed Democrat Mike Eng for the open 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0State Senate District<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud to have the endorsement of the rank &amp; file teachers of CTA who each and every day make a quality public education possible for our students of the San Gabriel Valley. Education is a major priority for me and I look forward to working with CTA in Sacramento to make our public education system a shining example in our country,\u201d Eng concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s campaign for State Senate has gathered a\u00a0<strong>huge amount of momentum lately with major\u00a0endorsements from the California Teachers Association and major organizations including the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and the California Democratic Party.<\/strong>\u00a0All of the best-known District leaders \u2013 including incumbent Senator Ed Hernandez, Supervisors Hilda Solis and Kathryn Barger, Congressmembers Judy Chu and Grace Napolitano and Assemblymember Ed Chau \u2013 are supporting Mike.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Eng previously served in the State Assembly, on the L.A. Community College District Board of Trustees, and on the Monterey Park City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL MONTE, CA\u00a0\u2014 The\u00a0California Teachers Association&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951","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=6951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6952,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6951\/revisions\/6952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}