{"id":194800,"date":"2020-03-21T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194800"},"modified":"2020-03-22T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T22:03:18","slug":"nd-dems-endorse-candidate-statwide-2020-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=194800","title":{"rendered":"ND Dems endorse candidates statewide 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-190814\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley-280x175.jpg 280w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/LenzShelley.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Democratic Party endorsed Shelley Lenz for governor and four other candidates for statewide office Saturday after<strong> holding its convention online because of the coronavirus.<\/strong> Lenz is a veterinarian who owns practices in Killdeer and Dickinson. Convention participants also voted to back Mark Haugen of Bismarck for treasurer; Patrick Hart of Bismarck for auditor; Casey Buchmann of Washburn for public service commissioner; and Travisia Martin for insurance commissioner. In addition to the statewide officers, the group endorsed Zach Raknerud of Minot to run for U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The North Dakota Democratic Party endorsed Shelley Lenz for governor and four other candidates for statewide office Saturday after holding its convention online because of the coronavirus. Lenz is a veterinarian who owns practices in Killdeer and Dickinson. Convention participants also voted to back Mark Haugen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194800","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\/194800","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=194800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194804,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194800\/revisions\/194804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}