{"id":71,"date":"2008-02-07T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/aurora-austriacos-state-house-bid\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T20:21:02","slug":"aurora-austriacos-state-house-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/07\/aurora-austriacos-state-house-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Austriaco&#8217;s State House Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">AFC Members:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">We received the following appeal to us to help out an Asian American who&#8217;s running for State Senate. Here&#8217;s the information\u00a0we received:\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><em>I saw the blog post on the AFC&#8217;s website regarding Aurora Austriaco and I wanted to get in touch with you to get involved with her race for State Representative in Illinois 65th District. Which includes Park Ridge and its surrounding communities.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><em>Aurora is the first female and minority president of the Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association, the President of the Asian American Institute and a founding member of the Filipino American Bar Association. Aurora serves as a member of the Asian Advisory Council of the Governor, the Attorney General and the Clerk of the Circuit Court. She is a past board member and a current member of the Asian American Bar Association and is currently serving her fourth term as Chair of the Cook County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Asian Advisory Council. <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><em>On March 5th we are arranging a fundraiser, &#8220;Asian Americans for Aurora Austriaco&#8221; and I thought we should work with your organization to rally support. We are asking Sponsors to commit to contributing or raising $500, hosts to commit to contributing or raising $250 and individuals to attend for $50.\u00a0 I hope your organization will be able to help us out.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC Members: We received the following appeal to us to help out an Asian American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fundraiser","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}