{"id":593,"date":"2019-11-06T03:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T03:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcv26.wpenginepowered.com\/newsroom\/virginia-lcv-celebrates-election-of-a-conservation-majority-to-virginias-legislature\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T03:32:30","slug":"virginia-lcv-celebrates-election-of-a-conservation-majority-to-virginias-legislature","status":"publish","type":"valcv_release","link":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/newsroom\/virginia-lcv-celebrates-election-of-a-conservation-majority-to-virginias-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia LCV celebrates election of a \u201cConservation Majority\u201d to Virginia\u2019s legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">RICHMOND \u2013 Following today\u2019s pivotal and historic elections for all 140 seats at the General Assembly, voters elected a pro-environmental majority for the first time to the Virginia General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In response, Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSince our founding in 2000, Virginia LCV has had one mission: secure a \u2018Conservation Majority\u2019 at the General Assembly. Tonight, we celebrate this achievement, and look forward to working with the incoming legislature in 2020 on the even bigger lift: passing strong policies that address climate change, get Virginia to 100 percent clean energy, and protect clean water and our environment for all Virginians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Antecedentes:<\/strong><br \/>\nVirginia LCV ran the largest and most sophisticated electoral program for legislative races in the organization\u2019s history in 2019. The record $1.5 million investment to elect pro-conservation majorities to both chambers of the General Assembly was steered toward direct mail, digital and radio advertising, and grassroots organizing in 14 battleground districts, and also includes direct candidate contributions. A full summary of our 2019 electoral efforts is available <a href=\"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/virginia-lcv-electoral-summary-for-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/valcv.org\/virginia-lcv-electoral-summary-for-2019\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1573097180079000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEOzpJpnTJH9f1ekEXCKXrCLkEMNw\">Aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND \u2013 Following today\u2019s pivotal and historic elections for all 140 seats at the General Assembly, voters elected a pro-environmental majority for the first time to the Virginia General Assembly. In response, Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, issued the following statement: \u201cSince our founding in 2000, Virginia LCV has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-593","valcv_release","type-valcv_release","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/valcv_release"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/valcv_release\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcv.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}