{"id":28144,"date":"2013-10-08T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28144"},"modified":"2013-10-08T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T03:41:07","slug":"griggs-county-commissioner-recall-election-oct-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=28144","title":{"rendered":"Griggs County Commissioners Defeated In Recall Election Oct 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GriggsCH\"<\/a>Cooperstown, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 8, 2013)\u00a0 —\u00a0\u00a0 The Griggs County Commissioners recall election was held Tuesday, in Cooperstown, and all incumbants were turned out of office.<\/p>\n

A number of Griggs County residents are upset with the County Commission after they approved a plan to build a new courthouse despite voters rejecting the idea once.<\/p>\n

Voters also \u00a0rejected a plan to renovate the existing courthouse twice in three separate elections.<\/p>\n

The unofficial\u00a0results:<\/p>\n

John Wakefield – 132\u00a0
\nRon Halvorson – 92
\nLoren Alfson – 2
\nDon Fors – 1<\/p>\n

Shawn Steffen – 150
\nRonnie Edland – 90
\nscattered – 1<\/p>\n

Dennis Halvorson – 60
\nRon Dahl – 144
\nscattered – 1<\/p>\n

Troy Olson – 103
\nKeith Monson – 71<\/p>\n

Robert Johnson – 69
\nDale Pedersen – 112
\nscattered – 2<\/p>\n

In the recall election:<\/p>\n

District 1 commissioner Ron Halvorson is being challenged by John Wakefield.<\/p>\n

District 2 commissioner Ronnie Edland is being challenged by Shawn Steffen.<\/p>\n

District 3 commissioner Dennis Halvorson is being challenged by Ron Dahl.<\/p>\n

District 4 commissioner Keith Monson is being challenged by Troy Olson.<\/p>\n

\u00a0District 5 commissioner Robert Johnson will face Dale Pedersen in the recall.<\/p>\n

Griggs County Auditor Cynthia Anton says it\u2019s the first time in the history of Griggs County that five commissioners have been the target of a recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cooperstown, ND\u00a0 (KCSi-T.V. News Oct 8, 2013)\u00a0 —\u00a0\u00a0 The Griggs County Commissioners recall election was held Tuesday, in Cooperstown, and all incumbants were turned out of office. A number of Griggs County residents are upset with the County Commission after they approved a plan to build a new courthouse despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144","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=28144"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29275,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28144\/revisions\/29275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}