"North Dakota's oil industry is regulated by a three-member commission
called the North Dakota Industrial Commission. The three members, all repugicans, are the Governor, the Agriculture Commissioner and the
Attorney General. The oil industry owns the first two, but the Attorney
General, not so much. He is, though, a member of the team and generally
acquiesces. The oil industry owns the Governor and the Agriculture
Commissioner by virtue of having paid for their election campaigns.""Ironically,
the campaigns were against the same man, a cowboy-rancher named Ryan
Taylor, who was defeated for Governor by Jack Dalrymple in 2012 and for
Agriculture Commissioner by Douglas Goehring in 2014. In both cases, the
oil industry paid most of the Republicans' campaign bills-more than
half a million worth in 2012, something less than that in 2014-even
though Taylor was probably going to lose anyway. But the industry knew
he was going to be a thorn in their side, and they wanted an insurance
policy that guaranteed the two men who had kept the doors open to their
greedy march across the prairie, unchecked by onerous regulations, were
going to remain In office. So they opened their fat wallets and paid for
a couple of campaigns. Now they own two of the three most important
politicians in North Dakota." […]
"That's the record of the repugicans in North Dakota. When the industry owns the regulators, nobody gets regulated."
That, North Dakota Democrats, is THE ANSWER.
It doesn't matter what the question is. It's called using your talking points, staying on message.
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