{"id":53962,"date":"2018-02-25T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=53962"},"modified":"2018-02-25T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T18:56:31","slug":"ben-rhodes-president-obamas-former-deputy-national-security-adviser-endorses-jessica-morse-for-californias-fourth-congressional-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=53962","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rhodes, President Obama\u2019s former Deputy National Security Adviser, Endorses Jessica Morse for California\u2019s Fourth Congressional District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roseville, CA&#8230;Today, Ben Rhodes, who served eight years dedicated to protecting America alongside President Obama while serving as his Deputy National Security Adviser, emphatically endorsed Jessica Morse today for Congress in California\u2019s 4th Congressional District.  \u201cAt this dangerous moment, Congress needs more leaders who are willing to defend American values, inspire others to get involved, and put our country\u2019s long-term interests ahead of their personal ones,\u201d Rhodes declared.  \u201cJessica Morse is that kind of leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/lakesidenews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ben_Rhodes_Obama_staffer_Feb_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lakesidenews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ben_Rhodes_Obama_staffer_Feb_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"309\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20745\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taking note of Morse\u2019s accomplishments with the U.S. Agency for International Development in Iraq and at the Pentagon\u2019s U.S. Pacific Command in drafting a strategy to advance the U.S.-India defense relationship, Rhodes continued:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJessica showed personal courage. As a young person, she went to an Iraq that was still rife with conflict. Jessica showed creativity. While at PACOM, she developed an innovative approach &#8211; using renewable energy &#8211; as a way to advance the U.S.-India defense relationship, which was a top national security priority for the Obama Administration. She drafted a strategy and built a coalition of people across the government to get that done, which is what we need more of from Congress today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes highlights Morse\u2019s willingness to put her nation first, saying, \u201cwe are lucky, as a country, that there is a generation of Americans who signed up to serve in various capacities after 9\/11. Jessica Morse did the type of jobs that don\u2019t always get the spotlight, but they make the difference. She has a perspective that doesn\u2019t just come from Washington, it comes from the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Morse thanked Rhodes for his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply honored by Ben\u2019s support for my candidacy. His role, starting at a young age, as one of the leading foreign policy minds of his generation and a guiding force for President Obama, is one of the things that inspired me to believe that I could be a difference maker in this time of vital importance,\u201d Morse said. <\/p>\n<p>Read Ben Rhodes\u2019 full statement here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/benrhodes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roseville, CA&#8230;Today, Ben Rhodes, who served eight years dedicated to protecting America alongside President Obama while serving as his Deputy National Security Adviser, emphatically endorsed Jessica Morse today for Congress in California\u2019s 4th Congressional District. \u201cAt this dangerous moment, Congress needs more leaders who are willing to defend American values, inspire others to get involved, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Ben_Rhodes_Obama_staffer_Feb_2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}