{"id":1739,"date":"2011-11-10T10:46:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:26:21","slug":"madsen-responds-to-dems-resignation-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/10\/madsen-responds-to-dems-resignation-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Madsen Responds to Dem&#8217;s Resignation Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1748\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Roger Madsen, Director, Idaho Department of Labor\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Roger-Madsen1.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1748\" title=\"Roger-Madsen\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Roger-Madsen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Roger-Madsen1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/11\/Roger-Madsen1-220x289.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Idaho Department of Labor<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger Madsen, Director, Idaho Department of Labor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Department of Labor Director Roger Madsen has been feeling some heat since Tuesday, when he <a title=\"Labor Director Opposes Extending Unemployment Benefits\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/11\/08\/labor-director-opposes-extending-unemployment-benefits\/\">voiced his opposition<\/a> to the further extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits.\u00a0 On Wednesday, Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Grant <a href=\"http:\/\/idahodems.org\/madsen-tossing-aside-unemployed-idahoans\/\">called for Madsen&#8217;s resignation<\/a> in a statement guaranteed to raise hackles.\u00a0 Grant&#8217;s statement read, in part, &#8220;Madsen is advocating for the one percent (as all R\u2019s do). It is actions by the one percent, such as these, that threw workers from the 99 percent into unemployment in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This morning Director Madsen issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/265845-11-10-11-statement-by-idaho-department-of-labor.html\">statement of his own<\/a>, restating his commitment to strengthening the state&#8217;s unemployment insurance program.\u00a0 &#8220;We are not Democrats or Republicans at the Idaho Department of Labor,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;We respect all Idahoans including the employed, the unemployed and the state&#8217;s business owners.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department of Labor Director Roger Madsen has been feeling some heat since Tuesday, when he voiced his opposition to the further extension of federal unemployment insurance benefits.\u00a0 On Wednesday, Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Grant called for Madsen&#8217;s resignation in a statement guaranteed to raise hackles.\u00a0 Grant&#8217;s statement read, in part, &#8220;Madsen is advocating for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[105,74],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}