{"id":72514,"date":"2016-08-27T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T11:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72514"},"modified":"2016-08-26T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T03:56:09","slug":"myers-for-congress-endorsed-by-emilys-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=72514","title":{"rendered":"Myers for Congress Endorsed by EMILY\u2019s List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=72515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-72515\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress-300x186.png\" alt=\"Myers for Congress\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress-900x558.png 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress-400x248.png 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Myers-for-Congress.png 1270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>EMILY\u2019s List, the nation\u2019s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Kim Myers, who\u2019s running to represent New York\u2019s 22<sup>nd<\/sup> District in Congress. \u201cKim Myers has spent her life working for women and families in Broome County,\u201d said Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY\u2019s List. \u201cKim\u2019s 18 years serving on the Vestal School Board and her experience as a small business owner demonstrates her commitment to her community. She understands the importance of ending gender discrimination in pay, investing in highway and rail <!--more-->projects for economic development in rural areas, and protecting women\u2019s access to health care. The EMILY\u2019s List community is proud to support her historic bid for Congress as the first woman to represent this vital swing district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am absolutely thrilled to receive the endorsement of EMILY\u2019s List,\u201d said Kim Myers. \u201cAll the people of the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> District can count on me to show up, stand up and fight for women\u2019s issues in Congress. With their help, I will be there when it matters to middle-class families in New York\u2019s 22<sup>nd<\/sup> district, finding commonsense solutions to the challenges we face. Having grown up here and having built a life here, I know we can do better for our families. I look forward to working across the aisle, with Democrats and Republicans alike, to create good jobs, protect Medicare and Social Security, and take on the heroin crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>EMILY\u2019s List, the nation\u2019s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $400 million to support pro-choice Democratic women candidates \u2013 making it one of the most successful political organizations ever. We recruit and train candidates, support strong campaigns, research women\u2019s issues, and turn out women voters. We\u2019ve trained over 9,000 women to run and helped elect over 100 women to the House, 19 to the Senate, 11 governors, and over 700 to state and local office. Since its founding in 1985, almost one \u2013 third of the candidates EMILY\u2019s List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color \u2013 including every single Latina, African American, and Asian American Democratic congresswoman currently serving.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMILY\u2019s List, the nation\u2019s largest resource for women in politics, endorsed Kim Myers, who\u2019s running to represent New York\u2019s 22nd District in Congress. \u201cKim Myers has spent her life working for women and families in Broome County,\u201d said Stephanie Schriock, President of EMILY\u2019s List. \u201cKim\u2019s 18 years serving on the Vestal School Board and her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72514","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=72514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}