{"id":19185,"date":"2013-01-21T16:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19185"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T21:43:26","slug":"22-year-old-becomes-stockton-cas-youngest-ever-city-councilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19185","title":{"rendered":"22-Year-Old Becomes Stockton, CA\u2019s Youngest Ever City\u00a0Councilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALIFORNIA<strong> &#8211; Michael Tubbs<\/strong>, a 22 year-old Stanford graduate, is the youngest ever city councilman to be elected in his hometown of Stockton, C.A.<\/p>\n<p>Born into poverty to a teenage mother and father who is in prison, <strong>Tubbs<\/strong> grew up determined to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Upon graduating from high school, <strong>Tubbs<\/strong> attended Stanford, where he earned a Bachelor\u2019s in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a Master\u2019s in Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies.<\/p>\n<p>While in college, <strong>Tubbs<\/strong> interned for both Google and the White House. With multiple high-paying job offers, <strong>Tubbs<\/strong> decided to turn them down and return to his hometown to run for city council.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tubbs<\/strong> first made headlines last spring when he received a campaign endorsement from <strong>Oprah<\/strong> <strong>Winfrey<\/strong> after meeting her on campus at Stanford.\u00a0<strong>Winfrey<\/strong> donated $10,000 to the then-college senior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALIFORNIA &#8211; Michael Tubbs, a 22 year-old Stanford graduate, is the youngest ever city councilman to be elected in his hometown of Stockton, C.A. Born into poverty to a teenage mother and father who is in prison, Tubbs grew up determined to make a difference. Upon graduating from high school, Tubbs attended Stanford, where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}