{"id":111447,"date":"2020-03-06T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=111447"},"modified":"2020-03-06T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:17:20","slug":"news-from-assemblyman-john-salkas-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=111447","title":{"rendered":"News from Assemblyman John Salka\u2019s office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"268\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unnamed.png 268w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/unnamed-150x113.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><figcaption><em>Assemblyman John Salka (R,C,Ref-Brookfield) is pictured (center) with Assemblyman Jake Ashby (R,C,I,Ref-Castleton), left, and Assemblyman Brian Miller (R,I,C,Ref-New Hartford) at the Voices for Veterans rally Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Salka working to give veterans back their voices<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assemblyman John Salka (R,C,Ref-Brookfield)\u00a0attended a rally today to fight for funding for veterans\u2019 mental health and support programs. Voices for Veterans is a statewide initiative to fight against cuts to veterans\u2019 programs. Salka is resolved to give back to those who have sacrificed for our country, our values and our way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am immensely proud to join my colleagues in the Assembly\nRepublican Conference to stand up for our veterans,\u201d Salka said. \u201cOur great\nservice men and women who have given their all for our way of life and our\nvalues deserve to be taken care of once they return home. The governor should\nnot be using veterans\u2019 funding as a political bargaining chip, end of story.\nThey deserve significantly more respect than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Assemblyman John Salka represents the 121st&nbsp;Assembly\nDistrict, encompasses all of Madison County and portions of Oneida and Otsego\ncounties.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salka working to give veterans back their voices Assemblyman John Salka (R,C,Ref-Brookfield)\u00a0attended a rally today to fight for funding for veterans\u2019 mental health and support programs. Voices for Veterans is a statewide initiative to fight against cuts to veterans\u2019 programs. Salka is resolved to give back to those who have sacrificed for our country, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}