Randy Christmann, Hazen, N.D., letter: Crabtree ignores own standards
November 4, 2012 at 1:00 am in Grand Forks Herald
My opponent has focused his campaign on a myriad of false accusations of wrongdoing. His claims of illegal contributions simply are not true. Continue Reading
If you say it enough times, is it true? Don’t think so. Political contributions have been made to Christmann. You can’t back away from that. Crabtree, on the other hand, has returned any contributions he felt had even the slightest association with the standards he advocated. This is a desperate “hail Mary” type of denial that Christmann hopes will garner him some votes. If he wins, it’s business as usual on the Public Service Commission. The people of North Dakota will get the short end of the stick.
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Oh, that Randy is one sneaky little dog. “No corporation has given money to any public service commissioner or candidate. It is illegal in North Dakota to do so.” I’m thinking he was giggling hard when he wrote that little deception. Of course it is illegal for the corporation to give directly, so corporations form Political Action Committees to give the donation. Here are some of those non-corporate sources for Randy, as reported by Randy to the ND Secretary of State: Marathon Oil PAC, Tesoro PAC, North American Coal PAC, Century Link PAC, Midcontinent Communications ND PAC, Basin Electric PAC, Great River Energy PAC, BNSF PAC. Looks like a train of trademark protected corporate names to me. In other words, they are authorized units of the corporations whose names they bear. Then there are the more obscure regulated industry donors, like: Coal PAC, ND Oil PAC, and ND Cable PAC that gave to Randy. Right? No conflicts of interest here? I ask, are you attempting to deceive the public when you suggest you are not getting corporate money from those who regularly come before the commission? Should we reward that behavior? I think not, but then corruption has never been high on my list of preferred values in candidates.
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