{"id":280,"date":"2026-06-15T12:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:23:21","slug":"candidate-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Endorsement!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"823\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-823x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-281 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-768x956.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-1234x1536.jpg 1234w, https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882-1645x2048.jpg 1645w, https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1882.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 823px) 100vw, 823px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The WA 9th LD Dems are proud to endorse candidate, Karina Wallace!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Karina Wallace is a grassroots candidate running for Washington State House of Representatives, Legislative District 9, Position 2. A mother of six and lifelong advocate for working families, Karina brings a background in caregiving, labor, and community organizing to her campaign. She moved to Cheney after years of living and working across Washington State, and her connection to Eastern Washington runs deep \u2014 shaped by summers on family farms and a genuine commitment to the people and communities of LD-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Karina is running on a platform of accountability, transparency, and common-sense governance that actually helps real people. Her first-term agenda centers on paycheck protection and worker fairness, disability and chronic illness access, and lobbyist accountability. She accepts no corporate PAC money and no donations from registered corporate lobbyists \u2014 because she believes your vote shouldn&#8217;t be for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Her campaign motto says it all: Just figuring it out, one honest step at a time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WA 9th LD Dems are proud to endorse candidate, Karina Wallace! Karina Wallace is a grassroots candidate running for Washington State House of Representatives, Legislative District 9, Position 2. A mother of six and lifelong advocate for working families, Karina brings a background in caregiving, labor, and community organizing to her campaign. She moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa9lddems.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}