{"id":21849,"date":"2020-05-27T09:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849"},"modified":"2020-05-27T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T13:17:28","slug":"swalwell-endorses-farkas-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849","title":{"rendered":"Swalwell endorses Farkas for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/chappaqua\/u-s-rep-eric-swalwell-endorses-evelyn-farkas-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More endorsements<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latfor.state.ny.us\/maps\/2012c\/CD_map_rep_17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CD-17<\/a> Democrat primary free-for-all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/evelynforny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Evelyn Farkas<\/a> &#8230; has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/swalwell.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA)<\/a> has endorsed her campaign to represent New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional District. Swalwell has represented California&#8217;s 15th Congressional District district since 2013, and announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/7\/8\/20686166\/eric-swalwell-dropping-out-president-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination<\/a> in 2020. &#8220;&#8221;Dr. Evelyn Farkas has dedicated her life to America&#8217;s foreign relations and national security, and I&#8217;ve been impressed by her great humor and empathy,&#8221; Swalwell said. &#8220;We worked hard to expose the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/andrew-mccarthy-muellers-charges-against-russian-businesses-dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrupt relationship between Trump and Putin<\/a>, and <strong>we share a mission today of ending the gun violence that threatens our communities<\/strong>. At such a pivotal moment in our nation&#8217;s history, I can think of nobody better to follow in the footsteps of the great <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nita_Lowey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nita Lowey<\/a> &#8230;&#8221; &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A most prestigious endorsement coming from the guy who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20181121\/anti-gun-democrat-congressman-invokes-nuclear-option-against-resistors-of-firearm-confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened to nuke gun owners<\/a> who don&#8217;t go along with his dreams of gun confiscation.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D21849&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More endorsements in the CD-17 Democrat primary free-for-all: &#8220;Evelyn Farkas &#8230; has announced Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has endorsed her campaign to represent New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional District. Swalwell has represented California&#8217;s 15th Congressional District district since 2013, and announced a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. &#8220;&#8221;Dr. Evelyn Farkas has dedicated her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D21849&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21849\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-moonbattery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21856,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21849\/revisions\/21856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}