WEST FARGO, ND – Staet Rep. Kim Koppelman, a Republican who represents District 13 in North Dakota’s state assembly, will be making what he describes in a press release as a “major announcement” tomorrow concerning the 2012 House race. Koppelman currently has an active exploratory committee for a House race. He will be making the [...]
BISMARCK, ND – According to new polling commissioned by PlainsDaily.com, Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer leads a pack of Republican House candidates in a potential match up with Democrat Pam Gulleson. Gulleson is the only Democrat with an official House campaign while Republicans have three official candidates. The poll, taken between November 7th and November [...]
BISMARCK, ND – Republican Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk has raised $64,631.47 for his House campaign so far in the 2012 cycle, with $40,011.37 coming in the 3rd quarter according to reports filed with the FEC. All of Kalk’s contributions in the 3rd quarter came from individual contributors, and he also transferred $17,490.90 from his [...]
PARK RIVER, ND – A state legislator who would lose his district in a plan sent to an upcoming special session is considering a run for the US House. Senator Joe Miller told Plains Daily previously that he’d be seeking to stay in the state legislature, but now Miller is considering a run for the [...]
BISMARCK, ND – The North Dakota Tea Party Caucus took a straw poll of their membership at a statewide “Tea Party and a Plate” event and got some results that may raise eyebrows in political circles. The event, emceed by Bismarck commodities broker Eugene Graner, featured a traditional tea party with speakers as well as [...]
FARGO, ND – Appearing on the Scott Hennen Show today Janne Myrdal – a state director for Concerned Women for America and a founding member of the North Dakota Tea Party Caucus – said that she felt Democrats are playing the “gender card” in advance of the 2012 elections. “The Democrats are playing a little [...]
BISMARCK, ND – North Dakota Tax Commissioner Cory Fong has made headlines in North Dakota calling for sales tax reform legislation that would have all online retailers selling to citizens of the state collecting the sales tax, but he’s not ready yet to make headlines by announcing a candidacy for the House. Fong, a Republican, [...]
WILLISTON, ND – State Rep. Bette Grande, a Fargo-area legislator, will be making an “important announcement” tomorrow in her home town of Williston, ND. The announcement will take place at 10:00am at the Badlands Steel Company. The press release, sent out by Grande’s husband Don Grande, doesn’t mention the intent of the announcement but Grande [...]
FARGO, ND – Bette Grande, a conservative legislator from Fargo, has confirmed that she is seriously evaluating whether or not to make a 2012 bid for the US House seat that former legislative colleague Rick Berg currently holds. Berg announced several months ago that he is seeking the NDGOP endorsement to run for the US [...]
FARGO, ND – “In no way does this law require that women seeking abortions in North Dakota have to undergo a surgical abortion, as Planned Parenthood is saying. It only requires that medicinally-induced abortions are performed in accordance with legally approved procedures for the administration of mifipristone (the abortion pill),” said Fargo Representative Bette Grande [...]