{"id":79101,"date":"2022-11-16T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/candidates-on-retirement-security-blake-masters-of-arizona-afl-cio\/"},"modified":"2022-11-16T13:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T13:31:06","slug":"candidates-on-retirement-security-blake-masters-of-arizona-afl-cio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/candidates-on-retirement-security-blake-masters-of-arizona-afl-cio\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates on Retirement Security: Blake Masters of Arizona &#8211; AFL-CIO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important issues for working people in the 2022 midterm elections is retirement security. Candidates across the country are focused on undercutting retirement security, but working people reject these cynical moves and will support candidates who promise to protect Social Security and related programs. Today, we are spotlighting a 2022 candidate on retirement security: Blake Masters of Arizona, a candidate for the U.S. Senate.<br \/><span><span><span><span><span><span>An Aug. 4 event in Arizona focused on the threat posed by Blake Masters<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-08-03\/blake-masters-wins-arizona-gop-us-senate-race-to-face-kelly\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>who won<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span><span><span><span><span><span> the Republican primary for Senate in the state and has called publicly for the\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2022\/07\/30\/blake-masters-a-mini-trump-has-a-plan-to-privatize-almost-everything-everywhere\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>privatization<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span><span><span><span><span><span> of the program, including at a candidate forum in June.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>He has even gone so far as to say that he expects this essential earned benefit to not be there for future generations.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cThere is no doubt that Blake Masters would be a solid YES for any plan to cut or end Social Security as we know it. We literally cannot afford to let him win,\u201d said Richard Fiesta, executive director of the Alliance for Retired Americans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cCutting Social Security is a top priority for Senate Republicans and Republican candidates across the country this year,\u201d Fiesta added. \u201cThey are telling us what they want to do if they take control of the Senate<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014<span><span><span><span><span><span>and we need to believe them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>         <strong>           Tags:                       <span ><a href=\"\/tags\/elections-2022\" property=\"schema:about\" hreflang=\"en\">Elections 2022<\/a><\/span>                  <\/strong>       <br \/>&copy; 2022 AFL-CIO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vYWZsY2lvLm9yZy8yMDIyLzEwLzI0L2NhbmRpZGF0ZXMtcmV0aXJlbWVudC1zZWN1cml0eS1ibGFrZS1tYXN0ZXJzLWFyaXpvbmHSAQA?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important issues for working people in the 2022 midterm elections is retirement security. Candidates across the country are focused on undercutting retirement security, but working people reject these cynical moves and will support candidates who promise to protect Social Security and related programs. Today, we are spotlighting a 2022 candidate on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loopbeatzz.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}