{"id":105536,"date":"2020-08-15T16:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105536"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:04:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:04:17","slug":"response-to-wrong-information-going-around-harris-chief-of-staff-is-not-sri-lankan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/15\/response-to-wrong-information-going-around-harris-chief-of-staff-is-not-sri-lankan\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to wrong information going around &#8211; Harris Chief of Staff is not Sri Lankan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Anjalika Silva<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked on this and the\nposting that went around was a year old.&nbsp; This is the Chief of Staff for\nher Senate position.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should not have a\nbearing on whether people vote or don&#8217;t vote for the Biden &#8211; Harris\nticket.&nbsp; The Chief of Staff should have no bearing on voting choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just clarifying the incorrect\nnews circulating.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Old news in circulation is:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Kamala Harris, Vice Presidential\nRunning Mate of former US Vice President Joe Biden, for the US Presidential\nElection, has as her Chief of Staff a young lady of Sri Lankan origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rohini Lakshmi Ravindran<br>\nKosoglu, 31,&nbsp; is the daughter of W. Ravindran<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>an Old Thomian and crickerter and Shobana Mylvaganam\ndaughter of Dr Mylvaganam, a famous Surgeon who worked in Kandy for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The\nReal Chief of Staff appointed for Kamala Harris is:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Her new Chief of Staff was\nnamed on the news just after the ticket was announced as <strong>Karine Jean-Pierre <\/strong>and\nshe was the black girl who jumped in the middle when KH was attacked by a\nvisitor to one of her speaking sessions.&nbsp; Karine is an MSNBC political\npanelist and has a very soft spoken mentality and hopefully our Embassy in\nWashington will establish some contact with the team and staffers.&nbsp; I have\nalready alerted them about this note that is old news circulating and also the\nnew update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please don&#8217;t make some\nfoolish Sri Lankan American voters have their usual poorly thought out a\nrationale to vote the conman back.&nbsp; WE ARE SAFE. THE OFFICIAL\nREPRESENTATIVES WILL TAKE CARE OF THEIR PUBLIC RELATIONS.&nbsp; In my small\nway, I plan to do my part without any status but just access to as a voter with\na few ears that listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link for more information<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karine_Jean-Pierre#Early_life_and_education\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Karine_Jean-Pierre#Early_life_and_education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anjalika Silva\u00a0 Dear friends, I checked on this and the posting that went around was a year old.&nbsp; This is the Chief of Staff for her Senate position.&nbsp;&nbsp; This should not have a bearing on whether people vote or don&#8217;t vote for the Biden &#8211; Harris ticket.&nbsp; The Chief of Staff should have no bearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}