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Thursday, January 21, 2010

DAKOTA BEACON EXCLUSIVE: JOHN HOEVEN INTERVIEW - QUESTIONS TO DEFINE THE CANDIDATE

 

The Questions

What:

  • What is your favorite movie?
  • What is your favorite television show of all time?
  • What kind of music do you listen to the most?
  • What is your favorite book?
  • What is the most important book you have ever read?
  • What is your favorite song?
  • What is your favorite leisure activity?

Who:

  • Who is your favorite author?
  • Who are your top 3 figures in world history?
  • Who are your top 3 figures in U.S. history?
  • Who are your two favorite U.S. Presidents?
  • The economist who’s ideas most reflect your own is?
  • Who are your three favorite U.S. Supreme Court Justices of all times?
  • Who are the four most influential people on your life?

On a scale of 0 to 10:

  • The U.S. Federal Government’s role in K-12 education is?
  • The U.S. Federal Government’s role in College education is?
  • The U.S. Federal Government’s health care regulation is?
  • A flat tax is a good idea?
  • The definition of marriage is that of the union of one man and one woman?
  • Human activity is leading to climate change?
  • The United States Constitution is a living, breathing document/national law?
  • I agree with President Bush’s position on embryonic stem-cell research?
  • The traditional national media is truthful and accurate.
  • The emergent alternative media of bloggers and talk radio are truthful and accurate.
  • The emergent alternative media of bloggers and talk radio effects politics and public policy.
  • Popular culture is eroding the institution of the traditional two parent family.

If:

  • If government support was withdrawn tomorrow corn ethanol would be economically viable.
  • If no, how long until viability?
  • If government support was withdrawn tomorrow, wind generated electricity would be economically viable?
  • If no, how long until viability?

Misc:

  • When is a human being a person?
  • Will you make the following pledge: "I hereby pledge to the people of my district/state upon my election to the U.S. Senate, to sponsor and support legislation to repeal any federal health care takeover passed in 2010, and replace it with real reforms that lower health care costs without growing government."
  • If you'd been in the Senate at the time it was being considered, would you have voted for the TARP bailouts?
  • If you'd been in the Senate at the time it was being considered, would you have voted for the "stimulus" spending?
  • Given the national budgeting situation, with big deficits and debts, will you forgo so-called "earmarks" or other North Dakota-specific spending not related to necessary security and/or infrastructure needs?
  • How would you approach deficit-reduction at the federal level?
  • How would you treat your constituents differently than Byron Dorgan?
  • Do you believe in Truth, Justice, and the American way?
  • Do you believe in Liberty and Justice for all?

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Comments

Avatar for Hal Neff

Is the interview going to be printed in the Beacon?

Hal Neff on January 21, 2010 at 05:55 pm

Hal,

Being transcribed as we speak.

Steve Cates on January 21, 2010 at 06:10 pm

We print money and are up to our eyballs in federal debt. How will he cope with the required personality change from “Benevolent Benefactor” to “Skinflint”?

Lynn Bergman on January 22, 2010 at 12:51 am
Avatar for Doug

I like Gov. Hoeven as a person.  Mikey seems pleasant as well.  I am not sure liking their personalities is adequate reason to vote for Gov. Hoeven in the primaries.  I’d rather vote for someone out of the phone book that claims to be a conservative than a proven moderate.  We need to push Washington in a conservative direction, not pleasantly follow along.

Doug on January 24, 2010 at 01:01 am

I wrote him 3 times in regards to the corrupt and unethical ND Justice system before the Sandy Blunt travesty occured. I would not vote for him.  There has to be someone with better personal qualities and a backbone to do WHAT is RIGHT.

Madknuk on January 25, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Avatar for Sally Morris

There are far too many unanswered questions as to the real party affiliation of Mr. Hoeven.  I think it would better serve the Republican Party and the vital work that it needs to spearhead in the next Congress if Mr. Hoeven were to endorse and work hard for the election of someone in the REPUBLICAN PARTY other than himself. Maybe if he came out publicly in support of an unquestioned CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE in this race he could earn the credibility to run for Conrad’s seat - that is, if he wants to run against a Democrat incumbent like Conrad.  My feeling is this:  it is time for Hoeven to prove that he puts the Republican Party first.  To date, as far as I can learn, Hoeven has never repudiated or explained his public record on this.  It is to far past due for this election.  Maybe next time.

This is not the season to brush Conservatives aside to make way for one more “moderate” (spelled D-e-m-o-c-r-a-t).  What people are asking for - demonstrated so clearly in Massachussette - is a redirection TO THE RIGHT. 

I am hoping for success for Hughes, for Rubio and, in North Dakota, for Paul Sorum to turn things around and bring America back from the brink of destruction by socialists and those who allow to control our government. 

The Republican Party in North Dakota would be doing its constituents and its state a great service by stopping this king-making exercise, and especially in view of the unsuitability of this candidate at this time.

Sally Morris on January 28, 2010 at 08:50 pm

With over a million homeless and ten times that many idle hands, Haiti’s government won’t allow the digging of latrines for public sanitation, instead expecting foreigners to fly in portapotties.

Obama proposes high speed rail construction to stimulate our economy when urban high speed rail was at the bottom of the list for decades during GOOD TIMES!

Hoeven believes more government employees is economic development and has told us that “tax re-arranging” is tax cutting.

Logic and honesty seem painfully absent from so-called “moderates” and “progressives” that we need to replace with “true conservatives” like Paul Sorum, Kevin Kramer, and Constance Tripplet.

Go to your party convention and nominate conservatives!!!!!

Lynn Bergman on January 28, 2010 at 09:08 pm
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