{"id":315620,"date":"2026-05-14T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:47:10","slug":"cfa-supports-governor-candidate-becerra-at-sacramento-state-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/315620\/","title":{"rendered":"CFA supports Governor Candidate Becerra at Sacramento State Rally\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margarita\u00a0Berta-\u00c1vila,\u00a0CFA\u00a0President\u00a0and Sacramento State professor,\u00a0gave a speech\u00a0at a\u00a0rally\u00a0on Monday\u00a0for one of our union\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.calfac.org\/cfa-makes-dual-endorsement-for-california-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">endorsed candidates for governor<\/a>, Xavier Becerra.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than a hundred people filled the Nest, Sacramento State\u2019s gym,\u00a0to support Becerra\u00a0with less than a month left before voting ends.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Berta-\u00c1vila\u00a0noted that CFA was\u00a0an early supporter of Becerra, who\u00a0surged from single digits in the polls to become\u00a0one of the leading candidates for governor.\u00a0She said our union recognized his decades of public service, determination, character, and\u00a0leadership\u00a0in tough times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is committed to the promise of accessible public higher education, to the sanctity of academic freedom, and to ethnic studies,\u201d Berta-\u00c1vila said. \u201cHe will center students, workers, and communities as well\u00a0\u2013\u00a0and this is important\u00a0\u2013\u00a0as well as the dignity of everyday people.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Besides CFA, other unions with\u00a0strong support\u00a0at the rally included\u00a0LIUNA (Laborers\u2019 International Union of North America)\u00a0Local 185. Becerra was a former member of that union, as was his father.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With three weeks left in the June primary election, Becerra asked the audience to vote early\u00a0and tell friends and family to support him.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us win this together for California, for all the working families,\u201d Becerra said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Becerra also responded to questions on homelessness, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), K-12 education, and housing for renters.\u00a0He promised to fight against the crisis of affordability and\u00a0the\u00a0many manufactured and unnecessary\u00a0crisises\u00a0coming from Washington, D.C., too.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CFA\u2019s\u00a0dual endorsement for\u00a0governor\u00a0includes\u00a0Tony Thurmond\u00a0as well as Xavier Becerra. Vote by June 2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margarita\u00a0Berta-\u00c1vila,\u00a0CFA\u00a0President\u00a0and Sacramento State professor,\u00a0gave a speech\u00a0at a\u00a0rally\u00a0on Monday\u00a0for one of our union\u2019s\u00a0endorsed candidates for governor, Xavier Becerra.\u00a0\u00a0 More&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[989,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-315620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-elections","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}