N.D. attorney general: Libertarian candidate Riemers won’t be on Nov. ballot
July 5, 2012 at 9:11 am in Grand Forks Herald
A Grand Forks man running for governor will not be listed on November’s general election ballot, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Thursday.
Libertarian candidate Roland Riemers received more than the necessary 300 votes in June’s primary to appear on the ballot, but his name was listed without a lieutenant governor candidate. Continue Reading
I smell yet another lawsuit coming. Please Mr. Reimers, don’t sue me for saying such slanderous things against your character.
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It’s a shame, I really think he had it locked up this year.
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That people will vote Libertarian just to get away from the two party system that has gridlocked our nation for years.
Just remember, there are people all over North Dakota that dont read the Grand Forks Herald and therefore are unaware of Mr.Reimers past protests etc….
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You would think with no more people running then there were those responsible for accepting the paperwork could have taken two seconds to mention that a page was missing when the application was handed in.
Someone on the receiving end collects a paycheck to do a job.
if a page was missing they should have informed him.
If you are missing a page on a bank loan application do you think the bank would fail to mention it to you?
For the record… i wouldnt have voted for him anyways but i do believe in people doing their job.
If he wants to run, he should be allowed the opportunity.
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Why should a man, a Libertarian whose rally cry is personal responsibility (ha!) and minimal governmental interference, need to rely on a government bureaucrat to ensure that his paperwork is in order?
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Honestly I am embarrassed that Riemers is even from Grand Forks. I have heard his ranting and his low brow tactics ( Kill the Hobbits? Seriously?). To even think he could even be in office gives me reason to be scared. He acts like he is still in middle school.
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He makes Terry Bjerke look like the poster child for mental health !
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Last election Ricky Berg’s financial disclosure was incomplete yet he stayed on the ballot.
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all I can say is thank God….enough already Mr Reimers
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For as much as this individual loves to be in the news and in the public eye, this procedural error and negative ruling is exactly what he wanted.
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Time to repaint the van. Maybe he can get one of his kid-touching friends to help this time.
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“We are the good guys” Maybe you ‘good guys’ should pony up your own money for your frivolous crap. Do you realize how much money it costs to call in a jury pool, select jurors, and have a trial? All at the expense of the taxpayers so he can entertain himself and his merry band of followers. From what I can see after pulling up his numerous court cases, he never hires an attorney—he represents himself—so the only expense he has to make a fool out of himself is a few bucks for a filing fee. The big bucks to pay for these nonsense cases come from taxpayers. Not that amusing, in my opinion.
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You are exactly, 100% wrong. May I suggest you get online & download a free PDF of both the US & ND constitution?
Sure this guy is a joke, but his point is correct. As we have discussed before: the government will never do the right thing of its own free will. That is why the rules constricting its behavior are written the way they are.
The constitution does not outline what the government can do as much as what it cannot do. There is a reason for that. Time & again the government has shown itself to be unworthy of our trust.
This guy is amusing & maybe a little pathetic, but he is also correct
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Might I suggest you go online and google the difference between opinion and fact before you start banging on your keyboard that anyone is 100% wrong about an issue?
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The writer was factually incorrect in 100% of his assertions. 100%.
He may be frustrated by what he sees as this guys abuse of the system, but the man is doing nothing more than exercising his constitutional rights.
To try & prevent him from exercising those rights would be wrong, 100% of the time.
There are very few absolutes in life but he managed to hit several in one comment. He should get credit for that
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Vince, you perfectly described his Shenanigans. We as a people need to take a stand when something is seriously wrong in our government, however, this kind of ranting and wasting of public dollars is all for attention…notoriety, if you will. It is shameful.
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If he can’t follow the instructions on how to get on the ballot, how does he think he could possibly be the Governor of the state? Consider the ballot process to be Test #1. You failed.
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I’m all for my taxes paying for the jury system for anyone who feels they’ve been wronged by the system and paying for a public defender if someone can’t afford an attorney. I am not however, in favor of those who abuse the system at the expense of taxpayers just because they can. My guess is that he never hires an attorney because he doesn’t want to waste his money for a cause he knows is frivolous and he’ll never win——but for a few bucks, he can file a case, get his name in the Herald, and make his handful of followers jump up and down with glee. The rest of us can pay for it and the court calendar can be backed up a little further because of it.
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Then you should read up on the ultra-conservative Goldwater Institute or Sheriff Joe Arpaio and how much they have cost the taxpayers. At last count Sheriff Joe has cost the Maricopa County taxpayers over $80,000,000 dollars in settlements. This does not include the $100,000,000 dollars he spent that he should not have. It also does not include the costs of paying off the people that he and his cohorts in the Maricopa DA’s went after in their settlements or the disbarment hearings where his cohorts were dis-barred. Good economic conservatives all.
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Not to mention the time the jurors have to take from their own lives to participate in his tantrums.
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flying nusrse said: ” The writer was factually incorrect in 100% of his assertions. 100%.”
What are you reading? I stated juries cost the taxpayers a lot of money along with other court expenses associated with a trial. I also said it’s financially beneficial for him not to hire an attorney. If you’re saying trials don’t cost the taxpayers money and hiring an attorney is not expensive, then you’re the one that’s 100% wrong.
I don’t have to like the fact that he brings, what are in my OPINION, frivolous cases before the court—that’s called being entitled to my opinion– but no where have I said he doesn’t have the right to do it and neither has anyone else.
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Mr. Reimers’ petty frivolous law suits have turned the majority of the public off. But defending Michael McGee, a convicted sex offender who forcibly broke into a woman’s bedroom and raped her, was it for me.
The excuse that McGee was only 15 at the time doesn’t garner the young man any slack IMO. The kid broke the law and he can pay the price for doing so. When it comes to forcible rape people have long memories.
Mr. Reimers has a right to run but don’t look to me for sympathy that he won’t be on the November ballot. When you are interested in running for elected positions you should be more careful about the company you keep and who you allow to stay at your house.
Can you imagine if this was Berg, Heitkamp, or Dalrymple? Their political parties would never allow them to run for office with this in their pasts. What would happen if by some miracle Mr. Reimers was elected and decided he wanted to grant immunity to sex offenders or some other wild scheme he tends to come up with?
I believe the ND Libertarians chose the wrong candidate. Was fellow Libertarian Paul Cline to busy to run or doesn’t he have legal residency in the state of ND yet?
I have read several hundred of Mr. Cline’s letters and comments in the last year. IMO he may be the right man to represent the Libertarian party in the November election. I encourage him to take on the challenge.
If the Libertarian party wants to be taken seriuosly they need a strong leader. Or…they can continue with Mr. Reimers in charge and never win an elected position. The choice is their’s to make.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence TJ. Unfortunately I do not think I have much of a chance. Part of the problem with Conservative/Libertarian labels is everyone uses a different definition.
As a Libertarian I am very fiscally conservative. I am against the government providing something the market can provide for itself (the new wellness center is a prime example). I am for low taxes, minimal (not absent) common sense regulation of business (health and safety), and firmly believe there is no such thing as too big to fail. I am also against protectionism 99.9% of the time (certain defense industries would be the 0.1%).
That is all well and good, but being Libertarian means I am also fairly socially liberal. I do not give the government permission to get between me and my God. I do not give the government permission to tell me what is morally right and/or wrong.
Because of this I will fight to the end any form of Sharia, be it Muslim, Christian, or “other.” If it does not deal with health, safety, and the orderly running of society, government is not allowed an opinion.
As a Libertarian I believe:
Legalize marijuana. Tax the hades out of it and pay for healthcare and other needs. 85% of all border violence can be traced to marijuana. By legalizing it (regulate and sell it in stores right next to the booze) you not only put money in the government’s coffers (reducing the need for my tax dollars) you empty out the prisons.
Sin tax the hades out of booze and tobacco. 25% of the entire US healthcare budget is spent on alcohol related illnesses. 25%. We do not tax it nearly enough. If you are going to drink, fine. Just don’t ask me to pay for your liver transplant or funeral.
The same with tobacco. Another 25% of the budget. Cigarettes should cost $1.50 per pack and have $8.50 a pack tax. Again, I do not care that this is a hardship for you. If you smoke I will have to take care of your gasping gelly fish self for years before you get around to dying. I want reimbursed for that preventable illness.
Very few foreign entaglements. I am not isolationist but I do not believe we are the world’s policeman either. Our present state of interference in other people’s affairs (we have troops in 200 countries) is not acceptable.
Out of Iraq and Afghanistan as soon as you can load the planes and ships. Bye Bye.
Gay marriage is not even an issue. As discussed on other boards government is responsible for the secular part of the arrangements. The church the religious part. Government should never choose one church over another.
There is my platform in a nutshell
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Thank you for taking the time to write a response Fly.
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