{"id":3014,"date":"2011-12-20T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T19:26:06","slug":"gov-otter-appoints-port-of-lewiston-commissioner-to-open-senate-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2011\/12\/20\/gov-otter-appoints-port-of-lewiston-commissioner-to-open-senate-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Otter Appoints Port of Lewiston Commissioner to Open Senate Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter has appointed Dan Johnson (R-Lewiston) to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Joe Stegner.\u00a0 Stegner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/blogs\/boise\/2011\/nov\/11\/sen-stegner-named-uis-new-top-lobbyist\/\" target=\"_blank\">resigned last month<\/a> to become a lobbyist for the University of Idaho.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3015\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Dan Johnson (R-Lewiston)\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/DanJohnson.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3015\" title=\"DanJohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2011\/12\/DanJohnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Port of Lewiston<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Johnson (R-Lewiston)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Johnson is the solid waste manager for the City of Lewiston and a commissioner for the Port of Lewiston.\u00a0 He is 51 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The governor&#8217;s office says Johnson was the first choice of three nominees.\u00a0 Here is the full press release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(BOISE) \u2013 Governor C. L. \u201cButch\u201d Otter today announced the appointment of Dan Johnson of Lewiston to complete the unexpired term of Joe Stegner representing Nez Perce County\u2019s District 7 in the Idaho Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, 51, is solid waste manager for the City of Lewiston and a commissioner for the Port of Lewiston. He was the first choice of three nominees whose names were submitted to the Governor by the District 7 Legislative Committee after Stegner resigned to become a lobbyist for the University of Idaho.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan has big shoes to fill. Joe Stegner was a conscientious and collegial senator who represented the people of his district extremely well,\u201d Governor Otter said. \u201cHowever, I was presented with an excellent slate of potential successors, and I am confident Senator Johnson will do outstanding work for the people of Nez Perce County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a father of four grown children, has a master\u2019s degree in forest economics from Virginia Tech and participated in the Leadership Idaho Agriculture program. He expressed appreciation for his appointment and for the opportunity to play a role in public policy as a member of the Idaho Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting for me to see democracy at work,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI understand there are a lot of people who play a part, starting with the precinct folks on the legislative district committee who nominated me for this, and I look forward to being part of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he intends to seek election to the District 7 Senate seat in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter has appointed Dan Johnson (R-Lewiston) to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Joe Stegner.\u00a0 Stegner resigned last month to become a lobbyist for the University of Idaho. Johnson is the solid waste manager for the City of Lewiston and a commissioner for the Port of Lewiston.\u00a0 He is 51 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[121],"tags":[235],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}