North Dakota Ag Commissioner Candidate's Troubling Work History...

[rmgustaf]

Right now it looks like Doug Goehring probably is a shoe-in to get the North Dakota GOP endorsement to run against incumbent Roger Johnson for the office of North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner. The only other announced Republican candidate is Jim Lee, and I haven't heard from many who consider Lee to be a serious contender. Two years ago, Goehring fell less than 2,000 votes short of becoming our Ag Commissioner, so to some he must look like the GOP's strongest Ag Commissioner candidate. But GOP leaders in-the-know probably wake up every morning and worry about what they're going to read in the paper about their guy.

Remember, back in January, reading the newspaper stories about Goehring announcing his candidacy? I do. When I finished reading the stories, I wondered why the media was being so hard on him. I wondered why the local news people spent so much time and ink on negative-sounding pending litigation that involved him. While the litigation is no longer pending, the Republican party's dilemma is hardly gone.

I knew very little about the pending litigation back when this stuff was happening. By the time Goehring announced his new candidacy back in January, like a lot of people I had fogotten most of what I had read in the papers two or three years ago. Wanting to refresh my memory, in January I decided to read the Supreme Court briefs in the most recent case. As I read along in the "appellant's brief," nothing really jumped out at me as "new information" until I got to a paragraph that said this:

"9. On September 18, 2002, a Nodak Board member (later identified as Doug Goehring through his own admission to Nodak policyholders) "notified at least two Senior Vice Presidents that any communication with the North Dakota Insurance Department in relationship to the market conduct examination, targeted financial examination, or otherwise would face termination or other punitive action by the Board of Directors."

http://www.bismarckdems.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=146&Itemid=67

Long read, but worth it - GOP corruption is apparently extending into North Dakota!

[Blaze Diem]

1. Good post..GOP are like a Noxius Weed..Spurge like..

or some sort of thing..tentacles that spread without knowing and show up in precious places..geez how ugly to be part of the GOP!

Good heads-up as to Georhing's past "incidents". GOP tends to live by the "lay low until the public conveniently forgets", method of politics.