{"id":215,"date":"2016-04-14T21:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annarborccl.org\/?p=215"},"modified":"2016-04-14T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T01:11:46","slug":"ccl-volunteer-running-for-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/2016\/04\/14\/ccl-volunteer-running-for-office\/","title":{"rendered":"CCL Volunteer Running for Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-216\" src=\"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"StevenKwasny\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/StevenKwasny.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Steven Kwasny, a 28-year-old Eastern Michigan University student, and member of the Ann Arbor chapter of CCL, recently announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kwasnyfora2\/\">campaign for state House<\/a> in the 53rd district.<\/p>\n<p>Kwasny believes that one of the biggest problems with government is money, and thus, campaign finance reform is a major focus of his campaign.\u00a0 Kwasny says that campaign contributions &#8220;prohibit the common good from prevailing&#8221; and he will refuse any donations to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/ann-arbor\/index.ssf\/2016\/04\/ann_arbor_man_vows_not_to_acce.html\">MLive<\/a>, Kwasny&#8217;s platform also includes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>protecting the environment, increasing citizen participation in the democratic process, and restoring the community&#8217;s faith in state government.<\/p>\n<p>As a state lawmaker, Kwasny said he would work on decreasing maximum campaign contribution limits, making voter registration automatic, creating a &#8220;democracy on demand&#8221; app that would allow constituents to better interact with their representative, and upholding progressive values.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kwasny made his <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QP_Fm_tQYmo\">announcement<\/a> on Monday, April 11 on the campus of Washtenaw Community College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kwasny, a 28-year-old Eastern Michigan University student, and member of the Ann Arbor chapter of CCL, recently announced his campaign for state House in the 53rd district. Kwasny believes that one of the biggest problems with government is money, and thus, campaign finance reform is a major focus of his campaign.\u00a0 Kwasny says that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annarborccl.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}