{"id":221916,"date":"2018-06-14T04:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=221916"},"modified":"2019-02-09T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T21:14:16","slug":"ethiopian-born-alexander-assefa-wins-nevada-state-assembly-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/221916","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian-born Alexander Assefa wins Nevada State Assembly election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian-born Alexander Assefa has won a seat in the Nevada State Assembly on June 12 by defeating two other candidates.  <\/p>\n<p>Alex ran on a platform of &#8220;strong economy, quality of education, and government accountability.&#8221; He was able to get the endorsements of the Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus, AFL-CIO, Nevada Veterans Association, National Organization for Women, and SEIU Nevada.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Assefa-candidate-for-Nevada-State-Assembly-election-June-2018.jpg?resize=538%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-221918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Assefa-candidate-for-Nevada-State-Assembly-election-June-2018.jpg?resize=538%2C800&amp;ssl=1 538w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Assefa-candidate-for-Nevada-State-Assembly-election-June-2018.jpg?w=602&amp;ssl=1 602w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As an Assemblyman, Alexander will represent District 42, an area that includes Spring Valley town west of Las Vegas, <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spring-Valley-Nevada.jpg?resize=780%2C669&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"669\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-221919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spring-Valley-Nevada.jpg?resize=800%2C686&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spring-Valley-Nevada.jpg?resize=768%2C659&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spring-Valley-Nevada.jpg?resize=640%2C549&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Spring-Valley-Nevada.jpg?w=859&amp;ssl=1 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before coming to the United States in 2000, Alex lived as a refugee in Kenya when he was a teenager. When he arrived in the U.S., he first settled in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended TC Williams High School. He then moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he became a pilot. <\/p>\n<p>Alex moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006, and started a small business. He also became active in the Nevada Democratic Party.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian-born Alexander Assefa has won a seat in the Nevada State Assembly on June 12 by defeating two other candidates. Alex ran on a platform of &#8220;strong economy, quality of education, and government accountability.&#8221; He was able to get the endorsements of the Nevada Assembly Democratic Caucus, AFL-CIO, Nevada Veterans Association, National Organization for Women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Alexander-Assefa-wins-Nevada-State-Assembly-election-on-12-June-2018.jpg?fit=703%2C519&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-VJi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221920,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221916\/revisions\/221920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}