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Related: About this forumRePost from GD - "We North Dakotans trust our politicians - even when they sell us out."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025860058#post2Re-Post from liberal N proud
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I think that comment explains a lot when asking why people vote against their own best interest. They are stupid!
Where Oil and Politics Mix
By DEBORAH SONTAG NOV. 23, 2014
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
IOGA, N.D. In late June, as black and gold balloons bobbed above black and gold tables with oil-rig centerpieces, the theme song from Dallas warmed up the crowd for the One Million Barrels, One Million Thanks celebration.
The mood was giddy. Halliburton served barbecued crawfish from Louisiana. A commemorative firearms dealer hawked a one-million barrel shotgun emblazoned with the slogan Oil Can! Mrs. North Dakota, in banner and crown, posed for pictures. The Texas Flying Legends performed an airshow backlit by a leaping flare of burning gas. And Gov. Jack Dalrymple was the featured guest.
Traveling through the economically struggling nation, Mr. Dalrymple told the crowd, he encountered many people who asked, Jack, what the heck are you doing out there in North Dakota? to create the fastest-growing economy, lowest unemployment rate and (according to one survey) happiest population.
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Suddenly a percolating anxiety came uncorked. The worm is turning, Timothy Q. Purdon, the United States attorney, said in April.
It was against this backdrop that on a brisk spring day David Schwalbe, a retired rancher, and his wife, Ellen Chaffee, a former university president, walked headlong into the wind on their way to an F.B.I. office in Fargo.
A mile-long oil train was rumbling through downtown. Wordlessly, Mr. Schwalbe tightened his grip on the black binders bearing what he considered evidence, based on an unusual deal involving his familys land, that Governor Dalrymple had a corrupt relationship with the oil industry.
This has David kind of nervous, Dr. Chaffee confided. He comes from a very below-the-radar culture.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/24/us/north-dakota-oil-boom-politics.html?emc=edit_th_20141124&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=45299538&_r=0
Scroll to the bottom to see some of the destruction caused by this oil boom.
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RePost from GD - "We North Dakotans trust our politicians - even when they sell us out." (Original Post)
misterhighwasted
Nov 2014
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This was my home. I attended school with the Schwalbe kids. This is the TRUTH & the Heartbreak
misterhighwasted
Nov 2014
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. This was my home. I attended school with the Schwalbe kids. This is the TRUTH & the Heartbreak
...of the Corrupt North Dakota Government & how the Bakken Greed has stripped clean what generations of landowners cared so dearly for.
Thanks liberal N proud for your enlightening post.
Appreciate it.