{"id":29093,"date":"2015-10-15T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/walkers-d-c-staffers-get-the-ax\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T07:09:21","slug":"walkers-d-c-staffers-get-the-ax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/walkers-d-c-staffers-get-the-ax\/","title":{"rendered":"Walker&#8217;s D.C. staffers get the ax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s top lobbyist in Washington, D.C. and two of his aides are being fired.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Dispatch News reported Tuesday that Kip Knudson, director of state and federal relations for the governor\u2019s office, has 30 days to find a new job.<\/p>\n<p>Knudson\u2019s associate directors, Nathan Butzlaff and Thomas Crafford, are also seeking new jobs. A research analyst will be kept on staff. <\/p>\n<p>Knudson was appointed to the lobbying job in 2011 by Gov. Sean Parnell and is the best-paid member of the governor\u2019s staff, earning $207,000 salary per year.<\/p>\n<p>Knudson\u2019s replacement is expected to be named this week.<\/p>\n<p>The chief lobbyist\u2019s job is to represent the state\u2019s interest in the House and Senate as well as with federal agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s top lobbyist in Washington, D.C. and two of his aides are being fired. The Alaska Dispatch <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a> reported Tuesday that Kip Knudson, director of state and federal relations for the governor\u2019s office, has 30 days to find a new job. Knudson\u2019s associate directors, Nathan Butzlaff and Thomas Crafford, are also seeking new jobs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29093"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}