{"id":55867,"date":"2025-04-08T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/freshman-silicon-valley-lawmaker-makes-his-mark\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:30:20","slug":"freshman-silicon-valley-lawmaker-makes-his-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/freshman-silicon-valley-lawmaker-makes-his-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman Silicon Valley lawmaker makes his mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s newest assemblymember has hit the ground running in his first four months, with a hefty bill package supporting economically disadvantaged Californians. District 26 Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens was sworn into office Dec. 8, and since then he\u2019s met with thousands of residents, community leaders and local officials. The freshman state lawmaker is carrying 17 bills ranging from broadening financial support for community college students to raising minimum tax credits for low-income residents. Among Ahrens\u2019 promises on the 2024 campaign trail was to be accessible \u2014 and so far he\u2019s been able to help more than 120 residents or families&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/freshman-silicon-valley-lawmaker-california-state-assemblymember-patrick-ahrens-makes-his-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley\u2019s newest assemblymember has hit the ground running in his first four months, with a hefty bill package supporting economically disadvantaged Californians. District 26 Assemblymember Patrick Ahrens was sworn into office Dec. 8, and since then he\u2019s met with thousands of residents, community leaders and local officials. The freshman state lawmaker is carrying 17 &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}