{"id":210925,"date":"2022-01-13T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T02:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graceful-beige-gazelle.109-123-232-35.cpanel.site\/?p=210925"},"modified":"2022-01-13T11:08:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T03:08:06","slug":"fil-am-melissa-ramoso-becomes-first-asian-american-woman-mayor-of-california-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomatomag.net\/?p=210925","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Am Melissa Ramoso Becomes First Asian American Woman Mayor Of California Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Ramoso, a Filipino American community leader, has made history as the first Filipino female mayor of Artesia, California.<\/p>\n<p>Ramoso has worked for several lawmakers, Filipino American Democratic groups, and the Democratic Party during the previous 14 years.<\/p>\n<p>As she has now placed as the first Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) city chief of the town, Ramoso holds an ethnically diverse population of 17,000 of which about 10% are Filipinos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My greatest honor is being my parents\u2019 legacy. And tonight, I became Mayor. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to my Council colleagues for entrusting in me to serve as Artesia\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AAPI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AAPI<\/a> and Filipino female Mayor. I am deeply honored and humbled.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Artesia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Artesia<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xQ7JSWCghy\">pic.twitter.com\/xQ7JSWCghy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Melissa Ramoso (@MelissaRamoso) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelissaRamoso\/status\/1470703283186532353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy greatest honor is being my parents\u2019 legacy. And tonight, I became Mayor. Thank you to my Council colleagues for entrusting in me to serve an Artesia\u2019s first #AAPI and Filipino female Mayor. I am deeply honored and humbled,\u201d Ramoso took to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID 19 outbreak, Ramoso fought for an eviction moratorium and mental health assistance, as well as proposing an anti-AAPI hate resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The new mayor&#8217;s priorities for her term, which begins in 2022, are extending pandemic assistance and ensuring the safety of Artesians.<\/p>\n<p>Ramoso attributes her public service career to her family, who immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. Her mother is a retired nurse, while her father is a United States Army officer. Her late grandfather was a World War II warrior, and she is an Army veteran and retired postal worker.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/twitter.com\/MelissaRamoso, https:\/\/www.melissaramoso.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOTTED: Melissa Ramoso, a Filipino American community leader, has made history as the first Filipino female mayor of Artesia, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19265],"tags":[7863],"class_list":["post-210925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story","tag-social"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fil-Am Melissa Ramoso Becomes First Asian American Woman Mayor Of California Town - 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