{"id":137980,"date":"2018-02-05T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137980"},"modified":"2018-02-05T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T22:50:28","slug":"a-g-wayne-stenehjem-seeking-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137980","title":{"rendered":"A.G. Wayne Stenehjem seeking re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15717\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Stenhjemwayne-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Stenhjemwayne-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Stenhjemwayne-260x175.png 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Stenhjemwayne.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he will seek re-election to the post he has held since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Stenehjem is a former Grand Forks lawyer and state legislator. He is running for his sixth term as North Dakota&#8217;s top law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>Stenehjem says that during his tenure he has focused on combatting human trafficking, crimes against children and the elderly, protecting consumers from fraud, and fighting the illegal drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats do not have a declared challenger at present.<\/p>\n<p>Stenehjem lost to Gov. Doug Burgum in the Republican primary for governor in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Republican Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says he will seek re-election to the post he has held since 2000. Stenehjem is a former Grand Forks lawyer and state legislator. He is running for his sixth term as North Dakota&#8217;s top law enforcement officer. Stenehjem says that during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137980","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\/137980","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=137980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137981,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137980\/revisions\/137981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}