{"id":93335,"date":"2016-01-28T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93335"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T20:03:55","slug":"werkhoven-responds-to-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93335","title":{"rendered":"Werkhoven responds to allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WerkhovenBob2010.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-93418\" alt=\"WerkhovenBob2010\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/WerkhovenBob2010-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Bob Werkhoven\u00a0\u00a0has\u00a0\u00a0responded to some of the allegations filed against him this week. \u00a0Links to various news stories below.<\/p>\n<p>He \u00a0has denied that he encouraged any citizen to make a complaint to the BCI to have Police Chief Fred Thompson investigated for pulling his service weapon on a citizen with a toy gun.<\/p>\n<p>The response\u00a0included Werkhoven \u00a0saying that he believes City Administrator David Schelkoph did not follow the proper protocol concerning the handling of an allegation of sexual harassment brought to his attention concerning Police Chief Fred Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Werkhoven also has responded to other grievance filed against him by other city officials.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Quadshot2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-93427\" alt=\"Quadshot2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Quadshot2-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Quadshot2-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Quadshot2-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Quadshot2.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>CSiNewsNOW News Background: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>June 2010: \u00a0Werkhoven defeats incumbent Mayor Mary Lee Nielsen<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Recall Official, Werkhoven, Magnuson Win\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1180\" target=\"_blank\">January 2012<\/a>: \u00a0Werkhoven survives recall election defeating former police chief Dean Ross<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"June 2014 election results\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47576\" target=\"_blank\">June 2014<\/a>: \u00a0\u00a0Werkhoven re-elected,\u00a0\u00a0defeating Jeff Edwards.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Myhre, Swenson, issue grievances about Mayor\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93014\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0City Attorney Russell Myhre and police Lt. David Swenson bring grievances.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thompson files grievance against Werkhoven\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93254\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0Police Chief Fred Thompson brings grievance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Schelkoph brings grievance against Werkhoven\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93324\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0City Administrator David Schelkoph has brought a grievance.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Werkhoven responds to allegations\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=93335\" target=\"_blank\">January 2016<\/a>: \u00a0Mayor Werkhoven responds to allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 Valley City Mayor Bob Werkhoven\u00a0\u00a0has\u00a0\u00a0responded to some of the allegations filed against him this week. \u00a0Links to various news stories below. He \u00a0has denied that he encouraged any citizen to make a complaint to the BCI to have Police Chief Fred Thompson investigated for pulling his service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-valley-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93335","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=93335"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93337,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93335\/revisions\/93337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}