{"id":139507,"date":"2018-02-26T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139507"},"modified":"2018-02-28T07:21:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T13:21:54","slug":"grabinger-seeking-dem-nomination-u-s-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139507","title":{"rendered":"Grabinger seeking Dem nomination US House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-92232\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GrabingerJohnMedStatepix-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GrabingerJohnMedStatepix-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GrabingerJohnMedStatepix-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/GrabingerJohnMedStatepix.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\">JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A Democratic state lawmaker from District 12, from North Dakota is seeking his party&#8217;s nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives.Fifty-four-year-old John Grabinger served as assistant Senate minority leader during the last legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>Grabinger also served \u00a0eight years on the Jamestown City Council, prior to election to the North Dakota legislature.<\/p>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s running for Congress because he wants more bipartisan leadership at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have dominated the political scene in North Dakota. Grabinger, who owns a boat dealership in Jamestown, says he considers himself a moderate Democrat who would work for bilateral solutions for North Dakota and the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Grabinger is the party&#8217;s second declared House candidate. He joins Ben Hanson, a commercial real estate broker from Fargo and one-term state representative who lost his seat in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Two Republican state senators, Kelly Armstrong and Tom Campbell, have announced their bids for the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>The state\u00a0 Democratic convention March 15-18 in Grand Forks at the Alerus Center.<\/p>\n<p>Grabinger also served \u00a0eight years on the Jamestown City Council, prior to election to the North Dakota legislature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A Democratic state lawmaker from District 12, from North Dakota is seeking his party&#8217;s nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives.Fifty-four-year-old John Grabinger served as assistant Senate minority leader during the last legislative session. Grabinger also served \u00a0eight years on the Jamestown City Council, prior to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139507","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=139507"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139530,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139507\/revisions\/139530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}