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Congressional Candidate debate on The Flag... click on link below to watch... It starts about 19 minutes into the video...

Debate on The Flag Congressional Candidates

Below are my thoughts on the debate... would love to get your thoughts and feedback...

Column Below in The Fargo Forum:

I love a good story. I am an avid reader. Three million miles on airplanes over the course 20-plus years on the road selling software, burritos and other ideas I created gave me the opportunity to read a lot and to watch people.

As I close in on the retirement stage of life, I find myself interviewing folks around the North as the host of a talk show I’ve called “Open Range” to fill up my spare time. But every once in awhile, I step down from my perch to listen in on a conversation taking place in other forums.

Most recently, I sat down and watched the debate between the Republican candidates for U.S. Congress. I was not disappointed. I thought they handled the questions well. For all their differences, they seemed to follow a standard Republican position on most issues, albeit conservative might be pushing it in a few places.

Straight-talking Rick Becker takes the lead as a proven fiscal conservative and someone to be trusted as a good steward over our tax dollars. As far as energy policy, his principled approach makes me confident that his position on the climate change hoax won’t fail in the face of pressure from the government and now oil industry to support carbon sequestration.

I like the way he articulates his understanding of the government’s role as cited in founding documents—to protect life, liberty and property. 

Julie Fedorchak strikes me as someone who means well but definitely carries the agenda laid out by those behind the scenes labeled “establishment.” I especially hear it when the carbon capture subject comes up against scrutiny under the banner “good for the farmer” and the caption leaves out the cost to the taxpayer.

I need food for thought and not talking points that sound like platitudes and rhetoric. Surprised by her stance on life , I’d need schooling on her logic on Roe vs Wade and settling for anything less than personhood from conception till natural death.

Alex Balazs as the “New kid on the block” adds another layer to this Trump-friendly field of candidates with common sense and experience in the military to undergird his simply-stated viewpoints. He exudes a confidence in America and her people that I find refreshing and a good stopping off place for sensitive issues requiring more than politics and politicians to answer satisfactorily.

As for leadership in mustering grassroots support, I leave that discussion for another day. Each have different personalities and personal styles that feed into the equation that only prospective followers can answer.

As for former Miss North Dakota, Cara Mund, she brings another dimension—unknown to most Republicans. Therefore, it is incumbent on her to provide some way to be known or heard from very soon as time is of the essence.

This primary season in North Dakota will go a long way to begin defining who the Republican Party will for the foreseeable future. Stay tuned, June 11 is right around the corner.

Emineth is a North Dakota native businessman and political activist. He is a former executive director and chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party. Emineth has served on the Republican National Committee and chaired numerous presidential campaigns in North Dakota. He is the host of “The Legislature Today” and “Open Range” daily TV shows on BEK. He is a serial entrepreneur and has 40-plus years of business experience with multi-national companies. He has traveled the world extensively and has served as CEO and president of mid-tier companies.