{"id":630,"date":"2016-11-01T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/11\/01\/ride-share-active-in-west-coast-campaign-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T20:32:00","slug":"ride-share-active-in-west-coast-campaign-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/ride-share-active-in-west-coast-campaign-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride Share Active in West Coast Campaign. What you need to know:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber has made its first candidate endorsement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The endorsee:<\/strong> Assemblyman\u00a0Derek Armstrong (R)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why endorse?<\/strong>\u00a0Democrats ran 3 anti ride share ads against Armstrong claiming that he opposed criinal background checks for drivers putting women and children in danger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were the ads that sparked the Uber endorsement accurate?<\/strong>\u00a0No. The legislation required criminal background checks but did not require FBI background checks, which taxi cab companies in NV support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2016\/oct\/31\/uber-makes-first-political-endorsement-backs-a-nev\/\">las Vegas Sun |\u00a0Uber makes first political endorsement, backs a Nevada\u00a0assemblyman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber has made its first candidate endorsement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The endorsee:<\/strong> Assemblyman\u00a0Derek Armstrong (R)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why endorse?<\/strong>\u00a0Democrats ran 3 anti ride share ads against Armstrong claiming that he opposed criinal background checks for drivers putting women and children in danger<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were the ads that sparked the Uber endorsement accurate?<\/strong>\u00a0No. The legislation required criminal background checks but did not require FBI background checks, which taxi cab companies in NV support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2016\/oct\/31\/uber-makes-first-political-endorsement-backs-a-nev\/\">las Vegas Sun |\u00a0Uber makes first&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,18,13,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-activism","category-campaign-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}