{"id":98712,"date":"2016-04-12T15:07:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98712"},"modified":"2016-04-12T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T20:07:18","slug":"dems-fill-gaps-in-statewide-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98712","title":{"rendered":"Dems fill gaps in statewide ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95509\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Democraticlogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Democraticlogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \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.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\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.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\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.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Standing Rock Sioux member Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun will challenge GOP incumbent Julie Fedorchak for a seat on the PSC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \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. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Democrats will now challenge Republicans\u2019 stronghold on the Public Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98712","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\/98712","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=98712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98713,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98712\/revisions\/98713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}