{"id":118578,"date":"2017-03-27T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118578"},"modified":"2017-03-29T07:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:23:11","slug":"burgum-vetos-state-employee-bonus-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=118578","title":{"rendered":"Burgum vetos state employee bonus limits from governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100801\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100801\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100801\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BurgumDoug1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Burgum<\/p><\/div>\n<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has vetoed a measure that would limit employee bonuses from the governor.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Burgum on Monday rejected the bill, saying it \u201cplaces unprecedented and intentional restrictions\u201d on a governor\u2019s ability to recruit and retain key employees.<\/p>\n<p>It was Burgum\u2019s first veto of a bill since the Republican won the governorship in November.<\/p>\n<p>The measure was spurred after then-Gov. Jack Dalrymple approved nearly $100,000 in retention bonuses for five staffers in 2015. It was the first time a governor had used the bonus program.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of both parties criticized the bonuses, and the president of the union that represents more than 11,500 public employees said the bonuses to Dalrymple\u2019s inner circle hurt state employees\u2019 morale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"column column-double column-last widget single\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_125\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum has vetoed a measure that would limit employee bonuses from the governor. Burgum on Monday rejected the bill, saying it \u201cplaces unprecedented and intentional restrictions\u201d on a governor\u2019s ability to recruit and retain key employees. It was Burgum\u2019s first veto of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118578","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\/118578","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=118578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118672,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118578\/revisions\/118672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}