{"id":19306,"date":"2015-04-03T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T14:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2015-04-03T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T15:00:57","slug":"kansas-patrol-chief-kdhe-leader-confirmed-by-state-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19306","title":{"rendered":"Kansas patrol chief, KDHE leader confirmed by state Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas Senate has confirmed two of Gov. Sam Brownback&#8217;s major appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Senate is controlled by Republicans and had been expected before Thursday&#8217;s votes to approve the GOP governor&#8217;s choices for Kansas Department of Health and Environment secretary and Kansas Highway Patrol superintendent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Senate voted 33-4 to approve the appointment of Susan Mosier as KDHE secretary. The votes against her came from Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mosier has been serving as KDHE&#8217;s top administrator since the resignation of then-Secretary Robert Moser at the end of November. She previously ran KDHE&#8217;s Division of Health Care Finance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vote was 40-0 to confirm Maj. Mark Bruce as patrol superintendent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bruce is a 25-year patrol veteran elevated by Brownback to its top job in January after Superintendent Ernest Garcia retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 The Kansas Senate has confirmed two of Gov. Sam Brownback&#8217;s major appointments. The Senate is controlled by Republicans and had been&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[5308,5302,5303,1009,5305,5307,5306,1598,5304],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-ernest-garcia","tag-gop","tag-kansas-department-of-health-and-environment","tag-kansas-senate","tag-kdhe-secretary","tag-mark-bruce","tag-robert-moser","tag-sam-brownback","tag-susan-mosier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19307,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19306\/revisions\/19307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}