{"id":147212,"date":"2018-06-14T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147212"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:56:10","slug":"gardner-formally-drops-out-of-race-received-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=147212","title":{"rendered":"Gardner formally drops out of race, received votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GardnerWilliam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147238 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GardnerWilliam-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GardnerWilliam-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GardnerWilliam-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/GardnerWilliam.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakota politician accused in a peeping incident at a college campus has formally dropped out of the race for secretary of state.Will Gardner notified Secretary of State Al Jaeger by a letter Wednesday that he will decline the GOP&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner said he would withdraw last month after it came to light that he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in 2006 after being accused of peeping through windows at a North Dakota State University women&#8217;s dormitory.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner had beaten Jaeger for the party endorsement in April.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner&#8217;s name still appeared on the Tuesday&#8217;s primary ballot, and he received more than 54,000 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger says he&#8217;ll run as an independent in the November general election.<\/p>\n<p>Fargo state Rep. Josh Boschee is the endorsed Democrat for the seat.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A North Dakota politician accused in a peeping incident at a college campus has formally dropped out of the race for secretary of state.Will Gardner notified Secretary of State Al Jaeger by a letter Wednesday that he will decline the GOP&#8217;s nomination. Gardner said he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147212","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\/147212","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=147212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147240,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147212\/revisions\/147240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}