{"id":117699,"date":"2017-03-10T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117699"},"modified":"2017-03-14T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:19:37","slug":"report-burgum-accepted-campaign-contributions-big-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=117699","title":{"rendered":"Report: Oil execs contribute to Burgum campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-116891\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BurgumDoug-officialpic1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Bismarck &#8211;\u00a0 Gov. Doug Burgum accepted more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from oil company executives last fall, despite comments he made as a candidate that accepting donations from the oil industry would be a conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>WDAY reports, that Burgum did not accept contributions from oil company political action committees, but he did receive contributions of up to $25,000 from individual oil industry executives.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota&#8217;s governor regulates the oil industry as chairman of the state Industrial Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the June 2016 primary, Burgum received no apparent contributions from the oil industry while his opponent Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, also a member of the Industrial Commission, received at least $50,000 in donations tied to the oil industry, according to campaign disclosures filed with the Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Burgum told Forum News Service he believed a conflict of interest exists when candidates accept donations from industries they regulate.<\/p>\n<p>Burgum declined an interview with Forum Commnications request but issued this statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a candidate, I made it clear I would not accept campaign contributions from entities I would directly regulate if elected governor. I honored that pledge. Individuals are free to express their preference and participate in the political process no matter where they work. As chairman of the Industrial Commission, I am committed to fair and unbiased oversight, regardless of campaign contributions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Marvin Nelson, who ran against Burgum last November, said his &#8220;heart kind of sank&#8221; when he first saw oil executive donations show up in Burgum&#8217;s campaign disclosures last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Don Morton, who worked as chief of staff for Burgum at Microsoft in Fargo, said he doesn&#8217;t expect the contributions to influence Burgum&#8217;s decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck &#8211;\u00a0 Gov. Doug Burgum accepted more than $100,000 in campaign contributions from oil company executives last fall, despite comments he made as a candidate that accepting donations from the oil industry would be a conflict of interest. WDAY reports, that Burgum did not accept contributions from oil company political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117825,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117699\/revisions\/117825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}