{"id":30326,"date":"2018-04-17T01:40:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/regions-democrats-get-new-party-leadership\/"},"modified":"2018-04-17T01:40:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T08:40:13","slug":"regions-democrats-get-new-party-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/regions-democrats-get-new-party-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Region\u2019s Democrats get new party leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tongass Democrats have named a new chairman. On April 5, Edric Carrillo replaced longtime chair Nancy Courtney. Also at the meeting, Democrats elected Brenda Knapp vice-chair, Elisa Gaytan as secretary, and Will Kronick as treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>The Tongass Democrats are the Democratic Party organization for House Districts 33 and 34 (Senate District Q), including Juneau, Douglas, Haines, Skagway, Gustavus, Klukwan and Excursion Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>Carrillo, 24, is a staffer for Rep. Sam Kito III, D-Juneau, and the youngest person to serve as the chair of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>He is a Juneau-Douglas High School graduate (class of 2012). Carrillo attended Colorado Mesa University, and is enrolled at the University of Alaska Southeast seeking a bachelor\u2019s of social science degree with an emphasis in political science.<\/p>\n<p>He is a member of the Filipino Community Board of Directors (Outreach\/Public Relations), a member of the City and Borough of Juneau\u2019s Parks and Rec Advisory Committee, CBJ Youth Activities Board, and former House District 34 Young Democrat representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tongass Democrats have named a new chairman. On April 5, Edric Carrillo replaced longtime chair Nancy Courtney. Also at the meeting, Democrats elected Brenda Knapp vice-chair, Elisa Gaytan as secretary, and Will Kronick as treasurer. The Tongass Democrats are the Democratic Party organization for House Districts 33 and 34 (Senate District Q), including Juneau, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":30327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}