{"id":662,"date":"2020-08-08T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/?p=662"},"modified":"2020-08-08T11:47:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T15:47:35","slug":"endorsement-miguel-torres-for-house-district-38-westerly-hopkinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/endorsement-miguel-torres-for-house-district-38-westerly-hopkinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement: Miguel Torres for House District 38 (Westerly\/Hopkinton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endorsed Candidate:  Miguel Torres<br \/>\nCandidate for:  House District 38 (Westerly\/Hopkinton)<br \/>\nEndorsing committee:  CARI Politics Team &#8211; South County region<\/p>\n<p>CARI is pleased to endorse climate champion Miguel Torres, who is challenging longtime incumbent Brian Patrick Kennedy for District 38 State Representative.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel, a student at the University of Rhode Island and an organizer with the Sunrise Movement, has made it a top priority to ensure that our state government take urgent action regarding the climate crisis. Indeed, a key motivation for Miguel to enter the race was his opponent\u2019s objection to Rhode Island taking any climate action. In an online report posted on the Uprise RI website in March 2020, incumbent Rep. Kennedy spoke against the Act on Climate bill, which is the top legislative priority of every environmental organization in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel\u2019s commitment to securing a better future for Rhode Island has earned him CARI\u2019s enthusiastic endorsement for State Representative in District 38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel\u2019s commitment to securing a better future for Rhode Island has earned him CARI\u2019s enthusiastic endorsement for State Representative in District 38.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","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\/662","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=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}