Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota Governor, Announces Full-Term Bid

North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple (R) announced Tuesday that he would seek a full term in the governor's office in the 2012 election.

Dalrymple succeeded to the office last year after former Gov. John Hoeven (R) resigned to become a U.S. senator. Dalrymple, a former state legislator from Fargo, served as Hoeven's lieutenant governor for a decade before taking the governorship. The Minot Daily News reported that Dalrymple cited the state's economic history as part of his rationale for seeking a full term.

Dalrymple also stressed his desire to continue the state's successes.

"I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished here in North Dakota. We are making tremendous progress. Working together, we have created thousands of good jobs, reduced property and income taxes and built up our reserves. Today there are more new opportunities than ever before," he said.

About 17,000 available jobs exist across the state, and personal income is growing at double the national average, he said.

North Dakota's economy has been the fastest-growing in any of the 50 states, at times growing faster than the national economy in recent years. This has included an oil and gas boom in the state, which has led to a surplus in the state budget.

Dalrymple's announcement came the same day that state Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer (R) formed a campaign committee to raise funds for North Dakota's lone congressional seat. Rep. Rick Berg (R) is not seeking a second term in favor of running for an open U.S. Senate seat. Cramer is looking to oppose fellow Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk in a Republican congressional primary. Kalk had been seeking the Senate seat before Berg announced his plans in the race to succeed retiring Sen. Kent Conrad (D).

The Bismarck Tribune reported that Cramer has previously lost three congressional races and has not made a final decision on 2012.

Cramer said Monday he filed the paperwork needed to raise campaign money so that he would be ready to accept contributions if he decided to run.

"It's quite easy to file a committee, and I thought I'd get that done," Cramer said. "I'm just prepared, just in case."

On the Democratic side, state Sen. Ryan Taylor of Towner has indicated he is considering a bid for the governorship. Former state Rep. Pam Gulleson (D-Rutland) is the only Democrat to enter the congressional race, after former state. Rep. Ben Vig (D-Aneta) announced this summer that he would not seek the seat.

The Cook Political Report has rated the governor's race as "safe Republican" while rating the congressional race as "likely Republican."

 

 

Comments

[dbrett480]

05:52 PM on 11/27/2011

With the huge increase in jobs and businesses in North Dakota, people would be foolish to change horses right now.

[patches046]

04:32 PM on 11/07/2011

I am from North Dakota and people who have never lived through our winters really need to learn how to dress properly and keep winter survival gear in their cars, too. Also, some of the men coming in with summer campers will freeze their bits and pieces off. Talk to some older folks and learn what to do to winterize your campers, your trucks and cars and yourself. Good luck.

[demisfine]

04:10 PM on 11/02/2011

Raping the earth for profit.
The Republican way.

[realorpretend]

04:25 PM on 11/02/2011

Do you think oil has some spiritual intrinsic quality to it?

[demisfine]

04:46 PM on 11/02/2011

No, but I don't believe that fracking and gutting the beautiful horizon to benefit multinational corporations and subsidizing post-peak industries makes the nation more secure.
The "oil" isn't earmarked for US consumption. It is released into the world market and sold to the highest bidder. It does NOTHING to make us energy secure.
Investment in innovation is the only way forward.
Germany and China will beat us to the punch, and we will REALLY be scr*w*d.

[Fremon]

03:14 PM on 11/02/2011

Is ND going to pretend that any economic boom in their state was based on Republicanism? Kind of like Perry staking claim on his "economic miracle" being the result of his "policies" even though those numbers weren't better than Bush or Anne Richards when they were governors.

[patches046]

04:33 PM on 11/07/2011

Fremon, they know better than that. Western North Dakota went through a boom in the fifites and early sixties.

[MovieGuy2010]

01:43 PM on 11/02/2011

Gee, what an economic miracle.

Then, how come they are #6 on this list:

Federal Spending Received per Dollar of Taxes Paid

10 Biggest Receivers
1. New Mexico $2.03
2. Mississippi $2.02
3. Alaska $1.84
4. Louisiana $1.78
5. West Virginia $1.76
6. North Dakota $1.68
7. Alabama $1.66
8. South Dakota $1.53
9. Kentucky $1.51
10. Virginia $1.51

If they have a surplus, why do they need extra money from the Fed, $1.68 for ever dollar they pay in?

Typical red state, wail about taxes while you are sucking off the blue state teat...

[surfinnonreality]

02:14 PM on 11/02/2011

States send federal taxes to Washington and receive federal spending in return. However, some states benefit more from federal taxing and spending policies than others. Some "beneficiary" states receive a positive return from Uncle Sam, making other states "donors" who pick up the tab. The most important factor determining whether a state is a net beneficiary is per capita income. States with wealthier residents pay higher federal taxes per capita thanks to the progressive structure of the income tax. Other factors include whether states have powerful Members of Congress, the number of federal employees present in a state, and the number of residents receiving Social Security, Medicare and other federal entitlements.

Until ND developed its oil industry it was one of the poorer states. The oil industry may push ND into the net donor category in the next few years. Also if there is a military base the cost of running that base would be considered part of the “tax allotment.

[MovieGuy2010]

02:34 PM on 11/02/2011

Nice copy and paste

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/topic/92.html

But, of course as the media hypes the oil boom as the fact ND has very low unemployment, it ignores the real reason WHY ND has weathered the storm better then, lets say, Alaska, another oil rich state:

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/north-dakotas-economic-%e2%80%9cmiracle%e2%80%9d%e2%80%94its-not-oil-by-ellen-brown/

If its secret isn’t oil, what is so unique about the state? North Dakota has one thing that no other state has: its own state-owned bank.

The BND’s revenues have also been a major boost to the state budget. It has contributed over $300 million in revenues over the last decade to state coffers, a substantial sum for a state with a population less than one-tenth the size of Los Angeles County. According to a study by the Center for State Innovation, from 2007 to 2009 the BND added nearly as much money to the state’s general fund as oil and gas tax revenues did (oil and gas revenues added $71 million while the Bank of North Dakota returned $60 million). Over a 15-year period, according to other data, the BND has contributed more to the state budget than oil taxes have.

[demisfine]

04:12 PM on 11/02/2011

You are not accounting for the HUGE oil subsidies.
The State of ND is a welfare state as far as the federal government is concerned.
They take more than they contribute.

[Fremon]

03:15 PM on 11/02/2011

An analysis of data from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation by Washington Post database specialist Dan Keating found that people in states that voted Republican were by far the biggest beneficiaries of federal spending. In states that voted strongly Republican, people received an average of $1.50 back from the federal government for every dollar they paid in federal taxes. In moderately Republican states, the amount was $1.19. In moderately Democratic states, people received on average of 99 cents in federal funds for each dollar they paid in taxes. In strongly Democratic states, people got back just 86 cents on the tax dollar.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/03/AR2010050304265.html?nav=most_emailed

[MovieGuy2010]

03:26 PM on 11/02/2011

That is almost exactly what my state, WA gets, about .86 for every dollar.

How Ironic, the center of the teeth gnashing and wailing at the blue states about "The welfare freeloaders" is where all the teabagging freeloaders live.

[realorpretend]

04:31 PM on 11/02/2011

Interesting, I wonder what the data is of per person taxes paid as well, what percentage of people paid in - in both types of states, what percentage those paying people paid in, and the difference of payers/non-payers in both types of states as well.

I'm such a stickler for these types of data points :) i know i know, geek.

[Gestas]

01:03 PM on 11/02/2011

Watchout N. Dakota....The Republicans are in the process of getting rid of the E.P.A. If like Dirty Air and Dirty Water, you will love what The Oil Companies have planned for you.

[leftnotruth]

01:25 PM on 11/02/2011

Please! The EPA has over regulated and have let ideology take over. They have become anti business and have fallen under the liberal socialist reform. Republicans want to bring common sense back into the equation. By just claimming things does not make you correct. Things the EPA have finally been called out on. The left famous for playing on emotion without the facts to back them up.

[Pamski]

02:23 PM on 11/02/2011

"The left famous for playing on emotion without the facts to back them up."

The right IS famous for playing on fear without the facts to back them up.

[demisfine]

04:13 PM on 11/02/2011

Hahahahahahahaha

[liberalcomesfromliberty]

12:59 PM on 11/02/2011

"There's no excuse for 100 percent of Washington Republicans to say no," Obama said. "That means Republicans in Washington are out of touch with Republican voters."

He also praised construction workers and announced another executive action, this one expediting loans and competitive grants to get projects funded.

"Construction workers want to do their jobs," Obama said. "We need Congress to do theirs."

[realorpretend]

04:32 PM on 11/02/2011

Maybe construction workers should go back to school and get into IT? There is always demand in IT, just look at Utah.

[liberalcomesfromliberty]

10:06 PM on 11/02/2011

LOL! Maybe this is the profession the want to make their living in. There is a lot of potenial work out there for their knowledge, skills, abilities.