{"id":20394,"date":"2018-02-22T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2018-02-22T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T15:17:06","slug":"moro-declares-run-for-6th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=20394","title":{"rendered":"Moro declares run for 6th District"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6525\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Moro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6525\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Moro-350x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Moro<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Democratic Congressional candidate Elizabeth Moro has announced that she will seek her party\u2019s nomination and endorsement in the 6<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Congressional District. On Monday, February 19<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released newly drawn congressional districts after ruling that the previous map \u2018clearly, plainly, and palpably\u2019 flouted the state Constitution. Moro, who had formerly been running in the infamously gerrymandered 7<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> district, made the switch after her home in Chester County was moved into the amended 6<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> which now comprises all of Chester County and part of Berks County.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Moro said, \u201cI have always been committed to running in the district where I live, where I raise my family, where I have built a business, and where I have led community oriented projects including the Neighbors for Crebilly campaign. The redistricting has brought a lot of uncertainty to candidates across the state. What it hasn\u2019t done is change my commitment to going to Washington to advocate passionately on behalf of the people of Southeastern Pennsylvania. For too long, working people have been ignored by Republican lawmakers and their special interest allies.\u201d When asked about the party endorsement Moro responded, \u201cI have been running a grassroots campaign focused on engaging with everyday people. I\u2019m not a connected insider with a network of major donors, but I am someone who knows her community, stands up for environmental justice, and believes that the wealthiest Americans should pay their share in taxes. I would be honored to earn the party endorsement, but am committed to running a spirited campaign regardless.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The primary election is scheduled for May 15<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Congressional candidate Elizabeth Moro has announced that she will seek her party\u2019s nomination and endorsement in the 6th Congressional District. On Monday, February 19th, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released newly drawn congressional districts after ruling that the previous map \u2018clearly, plainly, and palpably\u2019 flouted the state Constitution. Moro, who had formerly been running in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1089,1078,6511,7571],"class_list":["post-20394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6th-district","tag-congress","tag-election-2018","tag-elizabeth-moro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20395,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions\/20395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}