{"id":260246,"date":"2022-10-19T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=260246"},"modified":"2022-10-19T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T21:01:05","slug":"democratic-congressional-candidate-christina-bohannan-calls-for-immigration-reform-education-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/democratic-congressional-candidate-christina-bohannan-calls-for-immigration-reform-education-funding","title":{"rendered":"Democratic congressional candidate Christina Bohannan calls for immigration reform, education funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Rep. Christina Bohannan, who is running in Iowa&#8217;s 1st Congressional District, spoke to the Greater Des Moines Partnership Wednesday, Oct. 19. (Photo by Robin Opsahl\/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Solving Iowa&#8217;s problems like rural health care accessibility will require federal immigration reform and investment in public education, Democratic congressional candidate Christina Bohannan told business owners and members at the Greater Des Moines Partnership forum Wednesday. Bohannan, a state representative from Iowa City running in Iowa&#8217;s reshaped 1st congressional district, said if elected, she would work to address workforce shortages and the closures of hospitals and schools. She is running against Republican U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, who currently represents Iowa&#8217;s 2nd District. Miller-Meeks spoke at the Partnership&#8217;s forum series earlier this month. At both events, the candidates discussed their willingness to work across the aisle. One of the issues Bohannan said she wants to work on with Republicans is immigration reform. &#8220;I think all of Washington, D.C., has failed on immigration,&#8221; she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving Iowa&#8217;s problems like rural health care accessibility will require federal immigration reform and investment in public education, Democratic congressional candidate Christina Bohannan told business owners and members at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}