{"id":7038,"date":"2018-04-25T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2018-04-25T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:08:07","slug":"firefighters-endorse-mike-eng-for-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=7038","title":{"rendered":"FIREFIGHTERS ENDORSE  MIKE ENG FOR STATE SENATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EL MONTE, CA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Organizations representing local firefighters and paramedics throughout the state announced their support of Democrat Mike Eng for the open 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0State Senate District. \u00a0<strong>California Professional Firefighters (CPF), CAL FIRE Local 2881, Los Angeles County Firefighters Local 1014,\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alhambra Firefighters I.A.F.F. Local 1578,\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong>Arcadia Firefighters I.A.F.F. Local 3430, Monterey Park Firefighters I.A.F.F. Local 1014, San Gabriel Firefighters I.A.F.F. Local 2197 and the\u00a0<\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">West Covina Firefighters I.A.F.F. Local 3226<\/span><\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>all endorsed Eng after evaluating all the candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike is committed to ensuring our communities here in the San Gabriel Valley are safe,\u201d\u00a0said L.A. County Firefighters Local 1014 President, Dave Gillotte, \u201cwe know he will be a champion for firefighters, paramedics\u00a0and the people they protect, and that is why he has our endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am impressed with Mike\u2019s record and his level of insight into the challenges facing our firefighters, paramedics, and public safety in general,\u201d remarked Lou Paulson, President of the California Professional Firefighters.\u00a0\u201cMike is the candidate we want in the State Senate, helping us keep our communities safe and standing up for the for the resources we need to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s campaign for State Senate has gathered a\u00a0<strong>huge amount of momentum lately with major\u00a0endorsements from organizations including the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the California Democratic Party, and the vast majority of local elected officials from communities within the 22nd State Senate District.\u00a0 All 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\u00a0<\/strong>\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 Organizations representing local&#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-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","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=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7039,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}