{"id":2468,"date":"2018-04-05T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:53:00","slug":"wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies\/","title":{"rendered":"WKYU-FM: Democratic National Committee Chairman Inspired By Teacher Rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wkyufm.org\/post\/democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-teacher-rallies#stream\/0\"><strong>WKYU-FM<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Democratic National Committee Chairman Inspired By Teacher Rallies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Becca Schimmel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>April 5, 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee is paying close attention to recent teachers&rsquo; rallies in Kentucky and other states. Kentucky educators have been&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/wkyufm.org\/post\/teachers-descend-kentucky-capitol-protest-pension-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rallying at the state capitol<\/a>&nbsp;in an effort to fight for their pension benefits and increased state support for public education. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DNC chair Tom Perez said the teacher rallies in Kentucky, West Virginia and Oklahoma are inspiring. He said he&rsquo;s glad to see teachers standing up and taking action. He told WKU Public Radio the renewed activism and energy is an opportunity for the Democratic party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We need leadership at a state level that recognizes that our teachers are the key to our future and when you attack teachers you attack what they&rsquo;re fighting for and you call them thugs. That&rsquo;s just unconscionable,&rdquo; Perez said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said a major goal for the Democratic Party this year is to register more people to vote. Perez said when there&rsquo;s high voter turnout, Democrats win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;ve changed our mission statement, we&rsquo;re not simply a party whose mission is to elect the president every four years,&rdquo; He said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a party whose mission is to elect Democrats up and down the ticket from the school board to the oval office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perez said the Democratic Party&rsquo;s focus on education and healthcare will help their candidates during this year&rsquo;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WKYU-FM: Democratic National Committee Chairman Inspired By Teacher Rallies &nbsp; By Becca Schimmel &nbsp; April 5, 2018 &nbsp; The Democratic National Committee is paying close attention to recent teachers&rsquo; rallies in Kentucky and other states. Kentucky educators have been&nbsp;rallying at the state capitol&nbsp;in an effort to fight for their pension benefits and increased state support <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WKYU-FM: Democratic National Committee Chairman Inspired By Teacher Rallies - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-05T19:53:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/wkyu-fm-democratic-national-committee-chairman-inspired-by-teacher-rallies\/\",\"name\":\"WKYU-FM: Democratic National Committee Chairman Inspired By Teacher Rallies - 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