{"id":141232,"date":"2018-03-21T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141232"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:56:39","slug":"dist-13-gop-endorses-legislative-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=141232","title":{"rendered":"Dist 13 GOP endorses legislative candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi)\u00a0 Members of West Fargo\u2019s District 13 Republican Party have endorsed candidates for the North Dakota Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Tuesday night, they unanimously endorsed Sen. Judy Lee and Rep. Kim Koppelman for re-election and Austen Schauer for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Christopher Olson.<\/p>\n<p>Olson, who is now the District 13 Republican Chairman, decided not to seek re-election because of current time demands of family and business.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-141233\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SchauerAustin-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SchauerAustin-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SchauerAustin-128x175.jpg 128w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SchauerAustin.jpg 699w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>Schauer is a familiar face to many, having spent years as a local television news anchor.\u00a0 Currently, he works in the executive search field.\u00a0 His family is also familiar to many in West Fargo, as his wife, Angela, was a long-time teacher in the West Fargo Public School system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-141234\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy-140x175.jpeg 140w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/LeeJudy.jpeg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Lee, a retired real estate broker, has served in the Senate since 1994 and chairs the Senate Human Services Committee, while also serving on the Senate Political Subdivisions Committee and the Health Care Reform Review, Health Services, Human Services and Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Interim Committees.\u00a0 She also serves on the Comprehensive Health Association of North Dakota Board and the Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-141235\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KoppelmanKim-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KoppelmanKim-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KoppelmanKim-768x954.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KoppelmanKim-824x1024.jpg 824w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/KoppelmanKim-141x175.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/>Koppelman, owner of Koppelman &amp; Associates, LLC, a communications, advertising and marketing firm, was also first elected in 1994.\u00a0 He chairs the House Judiciary Committee and also serves on the Political Subdivisions and Administrative Rules Committees as well as the Judiciary and Government Administration Interim Committees.\u00a0 He is also a member of the North Dakota Commission for Legal Defense of Indigents and the Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Commission.\u00a0 He is also the former national chairman of the Council of State Governments (CSG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CSi)\u00a0 Members of West Fargo\u2019s District 13 Republican Party have endorsed candidates for the North Dakota Legislature. Meeting Tuesday night, they unanimously endorsed Sen. Judy Lee and Rep. Kim Koppelman for re-election and Austen Schauer for the House seat being vacated by Rep. Christopher Olson. Olson, who is now the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141232","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\/141232","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=141232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141238,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141232\/revisions\/141238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}