{"id":912,"date":"2021-06-04T23:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/east-new-york-city-council-candidate-nikki-lucas-picks-up-more-endorsements-as-election-day-nears\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T23:13:54","slug":"east-new-york-city-council-candidate-nikki-lucas-picks-up-more-endorsements-as-election-day-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"East New York City Council Candidate Nikki Lucas Picks Up More Endorsements As Election Day Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <\/strong>(Press Release Distributed by NYC Newswire)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily\u2019s List Endorses Nikki Lucas for Change in the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> City Council District<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn, New York &#8211; Today it was was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emilyslist.org\/\"><strong>Emily\u2019s List<\/strong><\/a> has endorsed City Council Candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/electnikkilucas.com\/\"><strong>Nikki Lucas<\/strong><\/a>, in the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> City Council District, covering East New York, Brownsville, Canarsie and East Flatbush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the founder and president of The People First Democratic Club and The People First Education Fund, Nikki Lucas empowers people to be engaged in decisions at all levels of government, civil service agencies, and organizations that impact their quality of life. EMILY\u2019s List is proud to endorse Nikki Lucas for New York City Council District 42,\u201d said <strong>Sarah Curmi, Vice President of State and Local Campaigns at EMILY\u2019s List.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As stated on their website, EMILY\u2019s List\u2019s vision is to be a driving force of change in America. By electing more Democratic pro-choice\u00a0women to national, state and local office, EMILY\u2019s List will consistently infuse our government with leaders who will drive change. Change that truly matters today, tomorrow and forever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored and humbled to receive the endorsement of such a well-respected organization like Emily\u2019s List\u201d, stated <strong>Nikki Lucas<\/strong>. \u201cI am looking forward to working directly with Emily\u2019s List as a member of City Council, to continue to drive positive change in local government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week Lucas has received endorsements from <strong>Resilience PAC<\/strong>, <strong>Streets PAC<\/strong> and <strong>#VoteProChoice<\/strong>. Other endorsements include the UFT, CSA, DC9, Carpenters Union, Local372, Vote Mama, Progressive Action, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, Senator Roxanne Persaud, Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, retired Congressman Ed Towns and others.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Nikki Lucas and to read her \u2018<strong>21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Rescue Plan for East Brooklyn<\/strong>\u2019 visit the official campaign website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ElectNikkiLucas.com\">www.ElectNikkiLucas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Press Release Distributed by NYC Newswire) Emily\u2019s List Endorses Nikki Lucas for Change in the 42nd City Council District Brooklyn, New York &#8211; Today it was was announced that Emily\u2019s List has endorsed City Council Candidate Nikki Lucas, in the 42nd City Council District, covering East New York, Brownsville, Canarsie and East [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}