{"id":364,"date":"2018-10-15T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/primary-endorsements-copy\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T01:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T05:44:14","slug":"2018-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/2018-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Action RI 2018 General Election Endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Climate Action Rhode Island (CARI), the Rhode Island affiliate of <a href=\"http:\/\/350.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/350.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1536336577625000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHhqUmfcMIOcZOkbm5JFxz_kP8JDQ\">350.org<\/a><b>, is proud to announce its enthusiastic endorsement of 13 candidates for State House seats in Rhode Island.<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The climate crisis poses an existential threat to humanity and Rhode Island in particular; our survival depends on taking bold action. CARI is committed to this action by regularly advocating for legislation in the State House, performing peaceful demonstrations, facilitating public education, and endorsing political candidates. We make endorsements based on the candidate\u2019s commitment to policies that support renewable energy, ratchet down carbon emissions, and move our society towards a sustainable future, as well as on the dynamics of their race.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The candidates CARI has endorsed for the 2018 General Election are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><strong>Marcia Ranglin-Vassell<\/strong>, House 5, Providence<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Justine Caldwell<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 30, East Greenwich<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Teresa Tanzi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 34, Narragansett\/South Kingstown<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Lauren Niedel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 40, Foster\/Glocester\/Coventry<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Michael Steiner<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 41, Scituate\/western Cranston<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Liana Cassar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 66, Barrington\/East Providence<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Laufton Ascencao<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 68, Bristol\/Warren<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Susan Donovan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 69, Bristol\/Portsmouth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Terri Cortvriend<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, House 72, Middletown\/Portsmouth<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><strong>Sam Bell<\/strong>, Senate 5, Providence<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Dawn Euer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, Senate 13, Jamestown\/Newport<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Michael Fine<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, Senate 21, Scituate\/Foster\/Coventry\/West Greenwich<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight:400;\"><b>Bridget Valverde<\/b><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, Senate 35, East Greenwich\/North Kingstown\/South Kingstown\/Narragansett<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CARI has reviewed the track record of each of these candidates and determined that each has a history of driving efforts to fight the climate crisis, and has made protecting the environment against climate change one of their top priorities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Climate Action RI enthusiastically endorses each of these candidates for elective office, and we believe that each will help lead our state to the forefront of climate action, environmental sustainability, and shared prosperity. We call on Rhode Island voters to volunteer their time in canvassing and GOTV efforts for these candidates leading up to the election, and just as importantly, urge them to cast their votes on Tuesday, November 6th.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Signed,<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kendra Anderson, President (Warwick, RI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARI has endorsed 13 climate champions from around Rhode Island for State House seats. To step up the fight against climate change in the Ocean State, please support their campaigns and help them to victory on November 6!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}