{"id":247253,"date":"2022-04-20T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247253"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T13:22:23","slug":"nd-senator-ray-holmberg-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=247253","title":{"rendered":"ND Senator Holmberg Resigns as Head of Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ap-sans-medium pt-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-247254\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rholmberg-ray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rholmberg-ray.jpg 176w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/rholmberg-ray-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg has resigned as head of a panel that oversees the Legislature\u2019s business between sessions. The resignation comes just days after a published report that Holmberg had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. The 79-year-old Holmberg is the state\u2019s longest-serving senator. The Forum of Fargo reported Holmberg exchanged 72 text messages with Nicholas James Morgan-Derosier as Morgan-Derosier was in jail on state child pornography charges. He told the Forum that his text messages with Morgan-Derosier were related to \u201ca variety of things\u201d but that he no longer has them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-sans-medium pt-0\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota state Sen. Ray Holmberg has resigned as head of a panel that oversees the Legislature\u2019s business between sessions. The resignation comes just days after a published report that Holmberg had exchanged scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247253","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=247253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247290,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247253\/revisions\/247290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}