{"id":34593,"date":"2023-11-22T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34593"},"modified":"2023-11-22T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T16:32:53","slug":"deuso-announces-run-for-155th-district-seat-seeks-to-become-pas-1st-transgender-state-rep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=34593","title":{"rendered":"Deuso announces run for 155th District Seat; seeks to become PA&#8217;s 1st transgender state rep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18944\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18944\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18944\" src=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_5745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica Deuso<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Erica Deuso (she\/they) is a progressive transgender Democrat from Downingtown, who has officially declared her candidacy for State Representative (HD-155, Chester County) in Pennsylvania on November 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Erica brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective to the political landscape. Erica is a pro-labor, pro-choice, pro-environment Democrat who believes that now, on the heels of the November Blue sweep in Chester County, is the time for a true progressive to bring real change to Harrisburg. She recognizes that the 3 E&#8217;s Economy, Education, Environment are crucial to the future of Chester County and Pennsylvania. Her legislative agenda will focus on supporting good-paying union jobs, improving education through fair funding, and responsible stewardship of our natural lands, natural resources, and open spaces.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Upon Erica\u2019s victory, she would achieve the historic feat of becoming the first transgender person elected to state government in Pennsylvania. Her victory would give representation to the 80,000+ transgender Pennsylvanians in Harrisburg for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to encourage you to explore this historic candidacy further and consider its impact on shaping a more inclusive and diverse political landscape in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, Deuso has a campaign Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericadeuso.com\">https:\/\/www.ericadeuso.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erica Deuso (she\/they) is a progressive transgender Democrat from Downingtown, who has officially declared her candidacy for State Representative (HD-155, Chester County) in Pennsylvania on November 8th, 2023. Erica brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective to the political landscape. Erica is a pro-labor, pro-choice, pro-environment Democrat who believes that now, on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1084,20,12143,12273,3912],"class_list":["post-34593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-155th-district","tag-chester-county","tag-election-2024","tag-erica-deuso","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34593","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=34593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34595,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34593\/revisions\/34595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}