{"id":215061,"date":"2020-12-17T10:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=215061"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:35:46","slug":"nd-taxpayers-to-foot-bill-burgums-legal-expenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=215061","title":{"rendered":"ND taxpayers to foot bill, Burgum&#8217;s legal expenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for legal expenses in Gov. Doug Burgum\u2019s failed attempt to fill a legislative seat won by a man who died before taking office. Billing records obtained late Wednesday by The Associated Press after an open records request say the Republican governor\u2019s office is claiming more than $12,000 in attorney fees and court costs. The North Dakota Supreme Court in a unanimous ruling last month said Burgum does not have the authority to appoint someone to the state House seat. Burgum had backed the now-deceased winning candidate against an incumbent member of his own party known as a staunch protector of public money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota taxpayers are on the hook for legal expenses in Gov. Doug Burgum\u2019s failed attempt to fill a legislative seat won by a man who died before taking office. Billing records obtained late Wednesday by The Associated Press after an open records request say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215061","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\/215061","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=215061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215062,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215061\/revisions\/215062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}