{"id":804,"date":"2020-10-06T13:07:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:10:56","slug":"american-federation-of-government-employees-endorses-bost-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"American Federation of Government Employees Endorses Bost for Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MURPHYSBORO, IL<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Representative Mike Bost (IL-12) today announced that his re-election campaign has been endorsed by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union in the country representing over 20,000 dues-paying members in the Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan region.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&nbsp;\u201cOver 13,000 federal employees call Southern Illinois home,\u201d <\/em><strong>said Bost.<\/strong><em> \u201cThese public servants have dedicated their careers to serving the American people \u2013 from supporting our military, and caring for veterans, to &nbsp;helping Social Security recipients get the benefits they have earned, or ensuring the safety of the flying public. I\u2019m honored to have the American Federation of Government Employees\u2019 endorsement, and will continue to advocate for the needs of our Southern Illinois federal employees in Congress.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MURPHYSBORO, IL&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Representative Mike Bost (IL-12) today announced that his re-election campaign has been endorsed by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest federal employee union in the country representing over 20,000 dues-paying members in the Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan region.&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cOver 13,000 federal employees call Southern Illinois home,\u201d said Bost. \u201cThese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11,3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bostforcongress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}