ND Republican Who Sponsored Law Disenfranchising Native Americans Loses To a Native American
But North Dakota Republicans didn't anticipate what a massive backlash there would be to their skullduggery. Immediately after the Supreme Court let the law take effect, furious Democratic activists all over the country crowdfunded a massive effort to get street addresses and updated ID cards for Native Americans in the state.
The effort was so successful that on Election Day, Native turnout was actually higher than 2012 in several places. The high turnout was not enough to save Heitkamp, as the state's electorate has shifted significantly right of where it was six years ago — but at the legislative level, angry Native voters flipped at least three red seats blue, including state House Majority Leader Al Carlson.
In the most poetic justice of the night, Randy Boehning, a GOP state representative in Fargo who sponsored the Native American disenfranchisement law in the first place, was unseated by Democrat Ruth Buffalo — a Native American.
It is hard to call the midterm results in North Dakota a positive thing for Democrats. But even though they lost the Senate race, they can take satisfaction in knowing that the Republican law passed to deny Native Americans the vote was an utter failure that woke a sleeping giant — and may have done the GOP more harm than good.
https://www.alternet.org/election-03918/north-dakota-native-american-turnout-ruth-buffalo
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KARMA!
Ruth Buffalo!
For MY people 💖
Bwahaha!
See also Cha's post for some more irony:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=11405262
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KARMA! Ruth Buffalo!
Thank You!
I hadn't seen that one.
And, this link from a conservative columnist!... and the good news that begets..
Whoa! Maybe that's a huge specificity why trump has had one Long Meltdown since Wednesday?!
That's brilliant news!
ETA~ Oh yeah, there will be a stunning list of Beautiful Ironies that will be discovered almost daily! Quite it list so far and it's only Saturday Mainland time.
This wave may last over 2 years. 
And this is why we need to tap into the experience in the House -- get those newbies ready for long battles FOR the people who put 'em there.
I'm ridin' that wave all the way! 
Thank You for that, Hermit!
The disenfranchising of Native Americans makes my blood boil and my temperature rise.
I am so Grateful for their Fighting Back and Winning! How ironic in 2018.. May it Keep Getting Stronger!
It came with this article:
N.D. legislator who voted against gay rights bill caught sending pics on Grindr
By Michael E. Miller April 29, 2015
N.D. state Rep. Randy Boehning (R-Fargo) in Bismarck, N.D., on April 10, 2003. (Will Kincaid/AP)
Dustin Smith is an “out and proud gay man” living in North Dakota, one of America’s more conservative states. So the 21-year-old wasn’t exactly surprised when he read that state legislators had refused to outlaw discrimination against gays. “These are the members of the House who voted against legal protections,” read the headline of an April 2 article alongside photos of the politicians.
What surprised Smith was that he knew one of them — somewhat intimately, it turns out.
“I’m sure I’ve talked to this person before,” Smith remembers thinking to himself, as he told The Washington Post in a telephone interview from his home in Bismarck, N.D. “Suddenly it dawned on me: I think I’ve seen this guy on Grindr!”
Smith started going through his conversations on Grindr — “an all-male location-based social network“— searching for the round, bespectacled face and bushy eyebrows. And there he was: Top Man!, a.k.a. Randy Boehning, the Republican state representative from Fargo.
Scrolling through the conversation, however, Smith found more than sexually suggestive messages. He found an unsolicited picture of the public servant’s not-so-public parts.
More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/29/n-d-legislator-caught-sending-grindr-pics-after-voting-against-gay-rights-bill/
