{"id":63975,"date":"2018-09-21T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-afge-endorses-texas-gina-ortiz-jones-for-congress\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T18:24:02","slug":"la-afge-respalda-a-gina-ortiz-jones-de-texas-para-el-congreso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/la-afge-respalda-a-gina-ortiz-jones-de-texas-para-el-congreso\/","title":{"rendered":"AFGE Endorses Texas&#8217; Gina Ortiz Jones for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 21, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The American Federation of Government Employees today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/publication\/afge-endorses-texas-gina-ortiz-jones-for-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Ortiz Jones<\/span> for election this November to the U.S. House representing <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas&#8217;<\/span> 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Congressional District.<\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg5123left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg5123left\" title=\"The nation's largest union representing federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has endorsed Gina Ortiz Jones for election this November to the U.S. House representing Texas\u2019 23rd Congressional District.\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The nation's largest union representing federal workers, the American Federation of Government Employees, has endorsed Gina Ortiz Jones for election this November to the U.S. House representing Texas\u2019 23rd Congressional District.\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/747688\/AFGE_Endorses_Gina_Ortiz_Jones.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Ortiz Jones<\/span> is running for Congress to give all residents of southwestern <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> a shot at a better future,&#8221; said AFGE District 10 National Vice President <span class=\"xn-person\">Cheryl Eliano<\/span>. &#8220;Gina is a first-generation American who grew up in <span class=\"xn-location\">San Antonio<\/span> and joined the Air Force after attending college on a military scholarship. She served in <span class=\"xn-location\">Iraq<\/span> as an intelligence officer and has continued to serve her country as a civilian working in national security, intelligence, and defense in the 12 years following her active-duty service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Ortiz Jones<\/span> values and supports the critical work that federal employees perform across this country every day, and as a member of Congress she will fight efforts to privatize federal jobs, shutter military bases, and slash funding for federal programs that taxpayers expect and deserve,&#8221; Eliano said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 200,000 federal employees live in <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span> \u2013 caring for veterans, supporting the military, guarding our borders, and getting Social Security recipients their benefits accurately and on time. There are about 86,500 active and retired federal employees in the 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>AFGE is the largest federal employee union in the country, representing 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers in all functions of government. District 10 represents nearly 80,000 employees in <span class=\"xn-location\">Louisiana<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mississippi<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">New Mexico<\/span>, and <span class=\"xn-location\">Panama<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is the largest federal employee union, representing 700,000 workers in the federal government and the government of the <span class=\"xn-location\">District of Columbia<\/span>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>For the latest AFGE news and information, visit the <\/i><\/b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/media-center\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b><i>AFGE Media Center<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>. Follow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/afgeunion\" rel=\"nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/afgenational\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/afgeonline\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpgd1b2left\" style=\"WIDTH: 100%; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" dir=\"ltr\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpgd1b2left\" title=\"AFGE Logo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AFGE Logo\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg \"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Photo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/747688\/AFGE_Endorses_Gina_Ortiz_Jones.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/747688\/AFGE_Endorses_Gina_Ortiz_Jones.jpg<\/a>\u00a0<br \/>Logo\u00a0&#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/329549\/american_federation_of_government_employees_logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  American Federation of Government Employees<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Sept. 21, 2018<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The American Federation of Government Employees today <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/publication\/afge-endorses-texas-gina-ortiz-jones-for-congress\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced its endorsement<\/a> of <span class=\"xn-person\">Gina Ortiz Jones<\/span> for election this November to the U.S. House representing <span class=\"xn-location\">Texas&#8217;<\/span> 23<sup>rd<\/sup> Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&quot;prni_dvprnejpg5123left&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gobierno-y-politica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}