{"id":697,"date":"2020-08-11T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/?p=697"},"modified":"2020-08-11T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:44:30","slug":"endorsement-cynthia-mendes-for-senate-district-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/endorsement-cynthia-mendes-for-senate-district-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement: Cynthia Mendes for Senate District 18 (E. Providence \/ Pawtucket)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endorsed Candidate: Cynthia Mendes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Candidate for: Senate District 18 (E. Providence\/Pawtucket)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endorsing committee: CARI Politics Team &#8211; East Bay region<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CARI enthusiastically endorses Cynthia Mendes in the race for Senate District 18 (E. Providence \/ Pawtucket). Cynthia takes a holistic approach to the climate crisis, incorporating not only environmental safety and sustainability but also health, jobs, and equity. The Green New Deal is not just a label to her, but a set of principles she can explain clearly. She told our interviewers, \u201cWe\u2019re made for this. If there\u2019s ever been a time to go big and go bold, it\u2019s 2020.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former CARI President Kendra Anderson wrote of Cynthia: \u201cOn my first day attending a training with Cynthia my ears perked up when she spoke. She had amazing insights about and passion for social justice. Cynthia was also there the day I gave my first speech on the RI State House steps for the \u2018We The People\u2019 rally. I was very nervous to climb the steep stairs in back of the State House, and then look way down at the people below to give my speech. After confiding in Cynthia about my fear, her wise words gave me the courage to speak and started our friendship. Cynthia is the embodiment of what it means to be a leader in the community. She has that rare ability to deliver powerful messages with brilliance and overflowing compassion, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">plus she makes things happen!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Residents of Senate District 18, we encourage you to vote for change: elect Cynthia Mendes to the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re made for this. If there\u2019s ever been a time to go big and go bold, it\u2019s 2020.\u201d \u2014 Cynthia Mendes, CARI-endorsed candidate for State Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","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\/697","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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/rhodeisland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}