{"id":5497,"date":"2015-07-01T09:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:54:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:54:18","slug":"valerie-ervin-announces-for-the-eighth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5497","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Ervin Announces for the Eighth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Her announcement video and email announcement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpKdgw-wc_0?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Your support has meant so much to me over the years. It&#8217;s because of you that I&#8217;ve been able to do the work I love, serving the working families of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>From raising the minimum wage to expanding universal pre-K and school breakfast programs, our accomplishments in Montgomery County are a testament to the power of community-based leadership.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not enough to stop there. If we want to make lasting change for Maryland&#8217;s working families, we need to take that kind of community-based leadership to the nation&#8217;s capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll join me on this journey.<strong> Show your support by signing up on my website at <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001q-LBv53mLgd3Jt8qcZR28wHXgcY47CyM58DUSENYJSqTHP-5h88ytlaSGfBNCk2jmYEMaXo9prY4NzI2770KrxqcgFY7XC88cKkEGIJbGsrBqgJpEqO0lOa96iBCZjkkiACpPLdjlGJ1HztDK8xmdsR9wmtvH-WzhMUJg0q463g=&amp;c=b3YcIwkXlCHHIV9u1p0MXIXjrW6ani18xDdB-D4Ok8p0YKyRgMk7lg==&amp;ch=vDp8kDTdKElxP2EWbjtt4FxVqAAui_zdsgVi4vU_3sRSazKa42NEzA==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">www.valerieervin.com<\/a> and liking my <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001q-LBv53mLgd3Jt8qcZR28wHXgcY47CyM58DUSENYJSqTHP-5h88ytlaSGfBNCk2jkzuj6n2MrPVvSDOn7v3WpMxvPtEUGNF0RfV1E2W-FuQuMlyrhyY-q83FLN9EyoLo-giBR53yURI6sK6rUnExMD2KAiO_35FuI-6filqKal1N8QhWsmoYhq03rALLl3QW5mhgpNoF6RU=&amp;c=b3YcIwkXlCHHIV9u1p0MXIXjrW6ani18xDdB-D4Ok8p0YKyRgMk7lg==&amp;ch=vDp8kDTdKElxP2EWbjtt4FxVqAAui_zdsgVi4vU_3sRSazKa42NEzA==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Facebook page<\/a> right away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your faith in me. Together, we are going to build a stronger community for all of us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nValerie Ervin<\/p>\n<p><em>Seventh State was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=4952\">first to report<\/a> on Valerie&#8217;s plans to run back in March. Welcome to the race!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her announcement video and email announcement: Your support has meant so much to me over the years. It&#8217;s because of you that I&#8217;ve been able to do the work I love, serving the working families of Maryland. From raising the minimum wage to expanding universal pre-K and school breakfast programs, our accomplishments in Montgomery County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=5497\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Valerie Ervin Announces for the Eighth<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[128,14],"tags":[1301],"class_list":["post-5497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-valerie-ervin","tag-mdcd8"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-1qF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}