{"id":230,"date":"2008-10-03T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/a-message-from-joe-gump\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T17:38:22","slug":"a-message-from-joe-gump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/03\/a-message-from-joe-gump\/","title":{"rendered":"A MESSAGE FROM JOE GUMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><u><font face=\"Times New Roman\">BROTHERS AND SISTERS<\/font><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I have taken a brief leave of absence from the Cook County Public Defenders Office to devote full time to our union\u2019s effort to elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Hopefully, you are now aware of one such endeavor \u2013 the \u201cGet on the Bus!\u201d campaign \u2013 in which all AFSCME members have been encouraged to travel to neighboring states to educate union families about Barack Obama\u2019s historic campaign and his exemplary labor record.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">If an out-of-state trip is not realistic for you, I am coordinating efforts locally to recruit volunteers to conduct union household visits or telephone banking on behalf of Barack Obama and Dan Seals (who is running for Congress against incumbent, Mark Kirk, in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> District).<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">If you would like to take advantage of these opportunities to get involved in this truly transformative election, please contact me immediately to discuss your options.<\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Joe Gump<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">PEOPLE Chair<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">AFSCME Council 31<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Local 3315<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROTHERS AND SISTERS I have taken a brief leave of absence from the Cook County Public Defenders Office to devote full time to our union\u2019s effort to elect Barack Obama the next President of the United States.\u00a0 Hopefully, you are now aware of one such endeavor \u2013 the \u201cGet on the Bus!\u201d campaign \u2013 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}