{"id":8364,"date":"2017-08-10T11:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T15:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:48:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:48:24","slug":"ashwani-jain-announces-run-for-council-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8364","title":{"rendered":"Ashwani Jain Announces Run for Council At-Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashwani Jain, a former Obama administration official and campaign coordinator, has announced that he is running for County Council At-Large. \u00a0His announcement appears below.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>IN SILVER SPRING SATURDAY: ASHWANI JAIN, FORMER OBAMA APPOINTEE, ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL, AT-LARGE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Jain-for-Council.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Jain-for-Council.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Jain-for-Council.png 547w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Jain-for-Council-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Media Advisory for Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 \u2014 Saturday, Ashwani Jain will host a campaign kick-off event to announce his candidacy for Montgomery County Council, At-Large. Ashwani will be joined by friends, family and supporters to celebrate the launch of his campaign, his birthday, and the 15th anniversary of becoming cancer-free. The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwani is a first generation Indian-American, the son of local small business owners, a lifelong native of Montgomery County, and a former appointee of the Obama Administration. Ashwani has built his career as a political organizer and coalition builder in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors as well as through extensive political campaign experience in Montgomery County.<\/p>\n<p>Ashwani is running for County Council because he believes that responsible, diverse, and accountable government doesn\u2019t have to be a pipe dream. He hopes to engage more Montgomery County residents in the political process and to ensure our political institutions are more representative, responsive, inclusive and accountable.<\/p>\n<p>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ashwani Jain for Montgomery County Council Campaign Kick-Off Event<\/p>\n<p>WHEN:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SATURDAY, August 12th, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p>WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaldi Social House, 918 Silver Spring Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910<\/p>\n<p>LINK:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ashwani-jain-for-montgomery-county-council-campaign-kick-off-tickets-36309625066\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/ashwani-jain-for-montgomery-county-council-campaign-kick-off-tickets-36309625066<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note:\u00a0 Media interested in attending should RSVP to Jaan Williams (jwilliams@voteashwanijain.com) or 202-630-5226<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashwani Jain, a former Obama administration official and campaign coordinator, has announced that he is running for County Council At-Large. \u00a0His announcement appears below. ***** IN SILVER SPRING SATURDAY: ASHWANI JAIN, FORMER OBAMA APPOINTEE, ANNOUNCES CAMPAIGN FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL, AT-LARGE Media Advisory for Wednesday, August 9th, 2017 \u2014 Saturday, Ashwani Jain will host a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ashwani Jain Announces Run for Council At-Large<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[209],"tags":[2002,1933],"class_list":["post-8364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-council-at-large","tag-ashwani-jain","tag-council-at-large"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2aU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8366,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8364\/revisions\/8366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}