{"id":98972,"date":"2016-04-17T22:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98972"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T14:37:27","slug":"haak-receives-friend-of-public-employees-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98972","title":{"rendered":"Haak receives Friend of Public Employees Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-94957\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/HaakJessica-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"HaakJessica\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/HaakJessica-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/HaakJessica-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/HaakJessica.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(CSi) District 12 Representative Jessica Haak (D) \u00a0was awarded the \u2018Friend of Public Employees\u2019 Award by North Dakota United President Nick Archuleta at the organization\u2019s General Assembly Sunday. Haak was recognized for her efforts in the past two legislative sessions and during the interim sessions.<\/p>\n<p>In his introduction speech, President Archuleta recognized Haak for her efforts in the 2015 legislative session on leave policy to include fathers and mothers and parents of adopted children.\u00a0 He remarked, \u201c&#8230;what really established Haak as a rising star in our Legislature was the hard work she put into getting her legislation turned into law. In that area, Haak has proven to be a master at building consensus and unique alliances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0 her acceptance speck Haak said, \u201cI believe that together, we can and do make a difference, and we do what we do for a better North Dakota.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s about economic opportunity for everyone, the North Dakota economy has changed and we need to focus on helping North Dakotans get a head with more skills, more jobs, and more wealth for all families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Dalrymple was also recognized at the event with the Adrian R. Dunn Friend of Education Award for his contributions to K-12 education in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Haak and\u00a0 Pam Musland are on the Democratic ticket for the State House from District 12, and are opposed by Republicans, Bernie Satrom and Jim Grueneich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi) District 12 Representative Jessica Haak (D) \u00a0was awarded the \u2018Friend of Public Employees\u2019 Award by North Dakota United President Nick Archuleta at the organization\u2019s General Assembly Sunday. Haak was recognized for her efforts in the past two legislative sessions and during the interim sessions. In his introduction speech, President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98972","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\/98972","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=98972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98989,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98972\/revisions\/98989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}