{"id":42195,"date":"2014-03-28T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42195"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T21:45:52","slug":"dems-endorse-state-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=42195","title":{"rendered":"Dems Endorse State Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/taylor2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6469\" alt=\"taylor2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/taylor2-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/taylor2-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/taylor2-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/taylor2.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Democrats wrapped up the opening day of their state convention in Fargo by endorsing Ryan Taylor for agriculture commissioner.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rancher from Towner was on the party stage two years ago when he was endorsed for governor. The Republicans swept all state offices in the last election.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taylor told delegates Friday that the state needs balance and Republicans have not done a good job ensuring that agriculture and oil development can exist together.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democrats endorsed three other relative newcomers for state offices.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tyler Axness, fresh off one term in the state Senate, was nominated for a two-year term on the Public Service Commission. Kiara Kraus-Parr, the endorsed candidate for attorney general, and Jason Astrup, the choice for tax commissioner, are running their first campaigns for public office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota Democrats wrapped up the opening day of their state convention in Fargo by endorsing Ryan Taylor for agriculture commissioner. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The rancher from Towner was on the party stage two years ago when he was endorsed for governor. The Republicans swept all state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42195","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\/42195","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=42195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42197,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42195\/revisions\/42197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}