{"id":369954,"date":"2026-10-10T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369954\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:24:50","slug":"gop-candidate-manhattan-restaurant-owner-fined-for-violating-federal-labor-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369954\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP candidate, Manhattan restaurant owner fined for violating federal labor laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kansas House representative and Republican candidate for secretary of state said it wasn\u2019t his fault that employees in his restaurants were not paid minimum wage or overtime pay.<\/p>\n<p>District 41 Rep. Pat Proctor is running for the Kansas secretary of state seat after incumbent Scott Schwab chose to leave the post in a failed attempt to run for governor. Proctor faces Democratic nominee Jennifer Day, of Lawrence and Scott Morgan, also of Lawrence, representing the Unite Kansas Party.<\/p>\n<p>Proctor joined Within Reason with Mike Matson on KMAN news radio Tuesday to discuss his campaign, where Matson questioned him about more than $93,000 the U.S. Department of Labor said Proctor\u2019s company owed employees for their work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themercury.com\/elections\/gop-candidate-manhattan-restaurant-owner-fined-for-violating-federal-labor-laws\/article_1d0d902f-9464-445e-83cd-a2a4e784c3bf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">To view the full article visit theMercury.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kansas House representative and Republican candidate for secretary of state said it wasn\u2019t his fault that employees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-369954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}