I can’t think of a hotter topic in North Dakota politics this summer than the one relating to the North Dakota Legislature’s efforts, during the winding up moments of the 2019 Legislative Session, to strip our State Auditor of his authority [read more…]
By now you’re likely familiar with the North Dakota Legislature’s efforts during the winding up moments of the 2019 Legislative Session to strip our State Auditor of his authority to initiate performance audits. If you’re not caught up, you can [read more…]
Yesterday, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem issued his opinion regarding “the constitutionality of amendments contained in section 3 of Senate Bill 2004 passed by the 66th Legislative Assembly.” As you’re likely aware of by now, the North Dakota Legislature voted in the [read more…]
North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner appears to have difficulty keeping his stories straight. I intended on writing about this yesterday, but only had time to get out the story on State Superintendent of Public Instruction Kirsten Baesler being [read more…]
State Auditor Josh Gallion’s office released an Audit Report yesterday of the North Dakota Highway Patrol from July 2016 to June 2018. According to a press release: “… the agency was not following internal policies for school bus inspections, was inaccurately [read more…]
Just a few weeks after I wrote about the fact that State Auditor Josh Gallion is a rising star with the people of North Dakota, the State Legislature coincidentally decided to put a damper on that by stripping him of [read more…]
In the aftermath of the State Legislature stripping the State Auditor of his authority to initiate performance audits — and Governor Doug Burgum signing off on the power grab — a movement came together under the banner now known as [read more…]
It was horribly disappointing when Governor Doug Burgum ignored calls to veto the effort to strip the State Auditor of his authority to conduct performance audits and signed the Legislature’s power grab into law. But to see yesterday’s editorial in [read more…]
Last week I wrote about the fact that State Auditor Josh Gallion was scheduled to meet with our State Legislature’s Majority Leaders, Senator Rich Wardner (R – District 37) and Rep. Chet Pollert (R – District 29) today. That meeting [read more…]
The following article was published with the permission of its author, Rep. Marvin Nelson (D – District 9). It was originally posted to Rep. Nelson’s Facebook page earlier today. The fight over the Auditor’s office has been in the news [read more…]
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