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Thursday, June 02, 2016

PAUL SORUM REJECTS EPA REGULATION, COMMON CORE, AT CAPTIAL ELECTRIC ANNUAL MEETING

Wednesday, June 1, Capital Electric Co-op held its annual meeting at the Ramkota Inn in Bismarck. They hosted a number of this year’s candidates for state and national office. Congressional candidate Chase Iron Eyes, incumbent Congressman Kevin Cramer, Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak, as well as Lt. Governor candidates Brent Sanford (running with Doug Burgum) and Nicole Poolman (Wayne Stenehjem) were guest speakers, as was Conservative Republican candidate for Governor, Paul Sorum.

A high point of the event were comments by Sorum, who, addressing a crowd of 1,100 attendees, echoed President Ronald Reagan in his “most dreaded nine words in the English language: ‘ I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” He outlined his ideas for reforming North Dakota’s K-12 education system, noting the disastrous example of the Parshall School District, where test scores and graduation rates have bottomed out and social problems burgeoned in the past years as Parshall, along with other North Dakota schools, has languished under Common Core. Sorum announced that he would eliminate the highly controversial Common Core program. Included in his plans is fully funding K-12, as required by the State Constitution, and thus reducing property taxes by up to 40%. This was met with enthusiasm from members.

A Bismarck businessman, Sorum continued in the vein of taking back the state, rejecting EPA over-reach and rejecting the Waters of the United States Act, which would attempt to regulate very small, local “bodies” of water (such as ditches and watering holes for livestock). This, he noted, would return control to owners and end burdensome and expensive regulation. Sorum spoke of the importance of our coal and power industries to the state, describing North Dakota as potentially the “shining city on the hill” that it could and should be. Sorum’s remarks prompted general applause on several occasions.

Capital Electric Cooperative has served consumers in Burleigh and southern Sheridan counties since 1948.

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