{"id":49015,"date":"2014-02-17T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=49015"},"modified":"2015-02-14T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T06:57:31","slug":"franklin-running-for-state-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/02\/17\/franklin-running-for-state-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin running for State Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Kermit Franklin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49016\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kermit-Franklin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49016\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kermit-Franklin-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kermit Franklin\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kermit-Franklin-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Kermit-Franklin.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kermit Franklin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am proud to call the Antelope Valley my home and I look forward to having the opportunity to serve our district in the State Assembly. I am fully committed and ready to fight for the poor and middle class in ensuring a livable job wage while fighting for access to quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Like all of you, I have faced challenges and unfortunate circumstances but that\u2019s not a reason to accept the status quo of high unemployment and raising our children in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>I believe the people of the 36th Assembly District are more important than the politics and their citizenship more pivotal than partisanship. That\u2019s why I believe in people over politics and citizenship over partisanship.<\/p>\n<p>My passion in serving our country as a U.S. Marine and serving in the State Assembly as a staffer for the 36th Assembly District makes this a natural progression for me.<\/p>\n<p>As the Vice Chair of Organizational Development for the State Veterans Caucus, I have formed relationships in the state legislature in the lower house, upper house and in the third house.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to serving as your Assembly member and appreciate your support.\u00a0Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Disclaimer<\/span>: The views expressed in this article are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily reflect the views of The AV Times.<\/em><\/h4>\n<p><em>Email <a href=\"mailto:letters@theavtimes.com\">letters@theavtimes.com<\/a> to submit a story to <em>Your Issues | Your News<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kermit Franklin I am proud to call the Antelope Valley my home and I look forward to having the opportunity to serve our district in the State Assembly. I am fully committed and ready to fight for the poor and middle class in ensuring a livable job wage while fighting for access to quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":49016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1480,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}