{"id":245422,"date":"2022-03-23T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245422"},"modified":"2022-03-24T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T13:24:09","slug":"petition-drive-backed-by-ultraconservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=245422","title":{"rendered":"ND Legislative Term Limits Petition Drive Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A petition drive backed by a group looking to place term limits on North Dakota lawmakers is riddled with violations and the proposal will not be placed on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Al Jaeger says the review by his office and state Bureau of Criminal Investigation cites abuses like signatures that were \u201clikely forged\u201d in the presence of notary public, petition workers who were paid bonuses based on their production, and a \u201csignificant number\u201d of signatures from residents of other states.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeger says some people who circulated petitions were not citizens of the United States. The measure\u2019s 42-member sponsoring committee includes several state lawmakers linked to the ultraconservative Bastiat Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2014 A petition drive backed by a group looking to place term limits on North Dakota lawmakers is riddled with violations and the proposal will not be placed on the November ballot. Secretary of State Al Jaeger says the review by his office and state Bureau of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245422","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\/245422","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245473,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245422\/revisions\/245473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/244746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}