{"id":98172,"date":"2016-04-10T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98172"},"modified":"2016-04-13T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:39:28","slug":"political-convention-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98172","title":{"rendered":"2016 Political Convention Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOP have endorsed the following:<\/p>\n

U.S. Senate: \u00a0John Hoeven<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. House of Representatives: \u00a0Kevin Cramer<\/a><\/p>\n

Governor: Wayne Stenehjem<\/a><\/p>\n

Lt. Governor: Nicole Poolman<\/a><\/p>\n

State Insurance Commissioner:\u00a0Jon Godfread<\/p>\n

State Auditor: \u00a0Josh Gallion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0ENDORSED CANDIDATES AT THE CONVENTION<\/p>\n

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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES…<\/div>\n
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State Rep. Marvin Nelson has been formerly nominated\u00a0as the Democratic candidate for North Dakota governor. \u00a0Nelson has chosen New Rockford Sen. Joan Heckaman as his running mate.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Rep. Eliot Glassheim, D-Grand Forks, was drafted to make a run at the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. John Hoeven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chase Iron Eyes is unanimously endorsed for the position of U.S. Congress. \u00a0\u201cWe represent the antithesis to fear, to ignorance, to hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2013 A state lawmaker from Fargo and a pair of tribal members from North Dakota American Indian reservations made eleventh-hour filings to fill gaps in Democrats\u2019 slate of statewide candidates for the June 14 primary.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democrats will now challenge Republicans\u2019 stronghold on the Public Service Commission, state treasurer and insurance commissioner. No Democrat came forward by the deadline late Monday to run for state auditor.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Longtime state Sen. Tim Mathern of Fargo will challenge incumbent Kelly Schmidt for state treasurer. Ruth Buffalo of Mandaree will run on the Democratic ticket for state insurance commissioner, a seat being vacated by Republican Adam Hamm.
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\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standing Rock Sioux member Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun will challenge GOP incumbent Julie Fedorchak for a seat on the PSC.<\/div>\n
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GOP have endorsed the following: U.S. Senate: \u00a0John Hoeven U.S. House of Representatives: \u00a0Kevin Cramer Governor: Wayne Stenehjem Lt. Governor: Nicole Poolman State Insurance Commissioner:\u00a0Jon Godfread State Auditor: \u00a0Josh Gallion \u00a0ENDORSED CANDIDATES AT THE CONVENTION \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UNITED STATES SENATOR\u00a0 JOHN HOWEVEN \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 UNITED STATES HOUSE\u00a0 KEVIN CRAMER \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SUPERINTENDENT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98172","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98793,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98172\/revisions\/98793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}