{"id":13286,"date":"2011-03-20T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-20T20:46:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:46:05","slug":"vicechair-of-the-congressional-progressive-caucus-judy-chu-endorses-debra-bowen-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/20\/vicechair-of-the-congressional-progressive-caucus-judy-chu-endorses-debra-bowen-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-Chair Of The Congressional Progressive Caucus, Judy Chu, Endorses Debra Bowen For Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/msblucow\/100682\/Bowen-20Kickoff-20-232_110319_345\/web.jpg?ver=13006339450001\" align=right width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a gathering of over a hundred grassroots supporters, campaign staff, and elected officials from throughout the CA-36 district, California Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32) announced she was endorsing Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><i>I&#8217;m here today because we have a tremendous opportunity to elect Debra Bowen to the 36th congressional district. It&#8217;s truly exciting for me. I&#8217;ve known her for a long time. I&#8217;ve known her as a state assembly member, I&#8217;ve known her as a state senator, I&#8217;ve known her as Secretary of State. I&#8217;ve known her as extremely intelligent, always outspoken, a true leader, someone with integrity in every seat that she&#8217;s been in.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so proud to say I was was the very first Congressperson to endorse Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>You know with Debra Bowen in this seat, you will have someone who will stand up to Wall Street. You know that she understands our coastline is a national treasure and she will do as much as she can to defend it. You know that she understands the value of education, and that we have to concentrate like a laser to make sure we get jobs in this district.<\/p>\n<p>And you know as Republicans attack a woman&#8217;s right to chose, Debra will be there to stand up for us.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bowen campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/content?content_item_KEY=5252\">released dozens of endorsements to the press yesterday<\/a>. Besides Congresswoman Chu, State Assemblymembers Betsy Butler, Gil Cedillo, Wes Chesboro, State Senators Alan Lowenthal, Mark Leno, and Fran Pavley, Hermosa Beach Mayor Howard Fishman, &nbsp;as well as former Assemblymember Sheila Kuehl and former City Council watchdog Laura Chick also endorsed Bowen. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign also lists scores of &#8220;citizen endorsements&#8221; from ordinary voters in CA-36. Anyone interested in adding their name to that list can <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4490&amp;tag=endorse_page\">go to this link.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/msblucow\/100682\/Bowen-20Kickoff-20-232_110319_345\/web.jpg?ver=13006339450001\" align=right width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At a gathering of over a hundred grassroots supporters, campaign staff, and elected officials from throughout the CA-36 district, California Congresswoman Judy Chu (CA-32) announced she was endorsing Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><i>I&#8217;m here today because we have a tremendous opportunity to elect Debra Bowen to the 36th congressional district. It&#8217;s truly exciting for me. I&#8217;ve known her for a long time. I&#8217;ve known her as a state assembly member, I&#8217;ve known her as a state senator, I&#8217;ve known her as Secretary of State. I&#8217;ve known her as extremely intelligent, always outspoken, a true leader, someone with integrity in every seat that she&#8217;s been in.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so proud to say I was was the very first Congressperson to endorse Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>You know with Debra Bowen in this seat, you will have someone who will stand up to Wall Street. You know that she understands our coastline is a national treasure and she will do as much as she can to defend it. You know that she understands the value of education, and that we have to concentrate like a laser to make sure we get jobs in this district.<\/p>\n<p>And you know as Republicans attack a woman&#8217;s right to chose, Debra will be there to stand up for us.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Bowen campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/content?content_item_KEY=5252\">released dozens of endorsements to the press yesterday<\/a>. Besides Congresswoman Chu, State Assemblymembers Betsy Butler, Gil Cedillo, Wes Chesboro, State Senators Alan Lowenthal, Mark Leno, and Fran Pavley, Hermosa Beach Mayor Howard Fishman, &nbsp;as well as former Assemblymember Sheila Kuehl and former City Council watchdog Laura Chick also endorsed Bowen. <\/p>\n<p>The campaign also lists scores of &#8220;citizen endorsements&#8221; from ordinary voters in CA-36. Anyone interested in adding their name to that list can <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4490&amp;tag=endorse_page\">go to this link.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9614,125,171,5822,3933],"class_list":["post-13286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9614","tag-125","tag-171","tag-5822","tag-3933"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3si","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}