{"id":102490,"date":"2016-06-14T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102490"},"modified":"2016-06-15T22:24:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:24:46","slug":"burgum-defeats-stenehjem-gop-gov-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=102490","title":{"rendered":"Burgum secures GOP governor nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-100801\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"BurgumDoug1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP)\u00a0 Former Microsoft executive Doug Burgum has defeated North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem in the Republican primary for governor.<\/p>\n<p>The Fargo businessman is expected to be a heavy favorite in November over Rolla Rep. Marvin Nelson, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and is seen as a longshot in a state that has not had Democratic governor since 1992. Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The Stenehjem-Burgum matchup focused on qualifications to lead the state amid declining oil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum is known in North Dakota as the godfather of software for building Fargo&#8217;s Great Plains Software into a billion-dollar business, which he later sold to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Stenehjem was elected attorney general in 2000 and won the Republican convention delegates&#8217; endorsement for governor in April.<\/p>\n<p>x-Doug Burgum 67,450 &#8211; 59 percent<br \/>\nPaul Sorum 2,139 &#8211; 2 percent<br \/>\nWayne Stenehjem 43,800 &#8211; 39 percent<\/p>\n<p>Measure 1-Allow Corporate Farming<\/p>\n<p>432 of 432 precincts &#8211; 100 percent<\/p>\n<p>Yes,\u00a0 31,787 &#8211; 24 percent<br \/>\nx-No,\u00a0 99,045 &#8211; 76 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP)\u00a0 Former Microsoft executive Doug Burgum has defeated North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem in the Republican primary for governor. The Fargo businessman is expected to be a heavy favorite in November over Rolla Rep. Marvin Nelson, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and is seen as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102526,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102490\/revisions\/102526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}