{"id":87684,"date":"2015-11-16T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87684"},"modified":"2015-11-17T13:09:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T19:09:16","slug":"tom-campbell-gop-governor-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87684","title":{"rendered":"Tom Campbell GOP governor bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/campbelltom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87685\" alt=\"campbelltom\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/campbelltom.jpg\" width=\"147\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 A second-term Republican state senator says he <strong>has decided against a gubernatorial bid<\/strong> to succeed Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who is not seeking re-election in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Tom Campbell, of Grafton, says in a statement Monday that \u201cnow is not the time to join the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old businessman launched an exploratory committee in September to determine the level of support he could receive.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Rep. Rick Becker, a Bismarck plastic surgeon, was the first candidate to enter the gubernatorial race last month.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has formed a committee to accept campaign contributions for a possible gubernatorial bid next year. Republican state Treasurer Kelly Schmidt also has expressed interest.<\/p>\n<p>No Democrats have entered the race. Former Agriculture Commissioner Sarah Vogel says she is mulling a run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 A second-term Republican state senator says he has decided against a gubernatorial bid to succeed Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who is not seeking re-election in 2016. State Sen. Tom Campbell, of Grafton, says in a statement Monday that \u201cnow is not the time to join the race.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87684","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\/87684","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=87684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87734,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87684\/revisions\/87734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}