{"id":7960,"date":"2012-11-28T09:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2012-11-28T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T15:45:09","slug":"unruh-succeeds-christmann-st-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=7960","title":{"rendered":"Unruh Succeeds Christmann, St. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-646\" title=\"APred\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/APred-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Republican activists have picked a coal company worker as North Dakota&#8217;s newest state senator.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jessica Unruh will succeed Randy Christmann in the Senate.<br \/>\nChristmann resigned last week after he was elected to the North Dakota Public Service Commission.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unruh is an environmental specialist with Coteau Properties Co.<br \/>\nShe was one of six candidates competing for the appointment. She<br \/>\nwill serve out the rest of Christmann&#8217;s term, which ends in<br \/>\nDecember 2014.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota law allows party political activists to appoint a<br \/>\nlegislator if an incumbent resigns shortly before the Legislature<br \/>\nmeets.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unruh will represent District 33 in North Dakota&#8217;s coal-mining<br \/>\nregion. It includes Mercer and Oliver counties and part of rural<br \/>\nwestern Morton County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Republican activists have picked a coal company worker as North Dakota&#8217;s newest state senator. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jessica Unruh will succeed Randy Christmann in the Senate. Christmann resigned last week after he was elected to the North Dakota Public Service Commission. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unruh is an environmental specialist with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7960","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\/7960","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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}