{"id":9663,"date":"2014-10-28T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T22:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T02:10:28","slug":"incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour<\/b><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hrc-assets.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/\/files\/images\/blog\/merkley-gotvtour-blog263.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>                        HRC President Chad Griffin meets with LGBT champion Senator Jeff Merkley and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, Secretary of State Kate Brown, and Speaker Tina Kotek.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour HRC President Chad Griffin meets with LGBT champion Senator Jeff Merkley and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, Secretary of State Kate Brown, and Speaker Tina Kotek. <a href=\"http:\/\/HRC.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\">HRC.org<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.hrc.org\/blog\/entry\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss-feed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/incredible-kick-off-to-every-vote-counts-gotv-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Incredible Kick-Off to \u2018Every Vote Counts\u2019 GOTV Tour HRC President Chad Griffin meets with LGBT champion Senator Jeff Merkley and Portland Mayor Charlie Hales, Secretary of State Kate Brown, and Speaker Tina Kotek. 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