{"id":1436,"date":"2011-04-08T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T22:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2011-09-09T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:05:05","slug":"1436","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Joint Session Confirms Nominees from Southeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature met in joint-session this\u00a0morning to consider the governor\u2019s nominees to the cabinet, state boards, and commissions.\u00a0 The State of Alaska has over 100<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/gov.alaska.gov\/parnell\/services\/boards-commissions.html\"> boards and commissions<\/a>, which engage Alaskans in the civic and commercial processes of government.\u00a0 Alaskans are appointed by the Governor and are reviewed by the legislature for confirmation.\u00a0 I was pleased the governor nominated several individuals from Southeast Alaska including:<\/p>\n<p>Cora Campbell of Petersburg, Commissioner\u00a0of the Alaska\u00a0Department of Fish and Game<br \/>\nJohn Jensen of Petersburg, Board of Fisheries<br \/>\nDirk White of Sitka, Alaska Board of Pharmacy<br \/>\nRichard Burton of Ketchikan, Alaska Police Standards Council<br \/>\nAaron Isaacs Jr. of Klawock, Alaska Labor Relations Agency<\/p>\n<p>Having quality Alaskans involved in government is vital for our state.\u00a0 I am glad the Governor appointed these individuals and\u00a0appreciate their service to Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature met in joint-session this morning to consider the governor\u2019s nominees to the cabinet, state boards, and commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,24,14],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-boards","tag-fisheries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}