ELECTION NOTEBOOK: Frustration mounts over GOP refusal to endorse high court candidates
October 26, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Minnesota’s Republican Party chairman wants to make sure everyone understands that his party has not endorsed judicial candidates. “In May, our state GOP convention expressly decided not to endorse any statewide judicial candidate in 2012,” Chairman Pat Shortridge wrote in an email. “Some in our party continue to refuse to accept this fact, a source of growing frustration for us and the members of the State Executive Committee.” Continue Reading
Some are concerned that American Indians in Minnesota could be negatively affected by the proposed voter photo identification amendment, citing uncertainty of whether their tribal IDs will be accepted.
Libby Schneider, Democrat Ryan Taylor’s campaign manager, issued a statement Thursday calling the poll “thoroughly discredited” and saying it “vastly under-counts” the number of Democrats. The Forum Communications poll shows 59 percent of voters favor Republican incumbent Jack Dalrymple. 
While the North Dakota insurance commissioner’s job is to help ensure an efficient market for insurance in the state, the two candidates for the office both look to Washington and the Affordable Care Act as their main concern if elected. 
North Dakota voters appear ready to approve Measure 4, an initiative that would ban smoking in public places across the state. The measure had strong support across party lines and demographic categories. 
Democrats are failing to slow the nation’s growing $16 trillion debt because they won’t agree on budget and tax reforms in the U.S. Senate, Republican Rick Berg said Thursday in his final duel with Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota’s closely watched Senate race. 
Reading in the online Huffington Post about Republicans’ efforts to get transient oil workers to vote in North Dakota got my attention this week and the attention of many around the state. But I really took notice when I looked at the photo of the so-called National Republican Senatorial Committee operative who’s informing oil workers how to vote in North Dakota. 
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