Representative Simons News Today

VALLEY CITY, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – District 24 Republicans passed a resolution to censure Representative Dwight Kiefert during a meeting on April 17th according to a document submitted to NewsDakota.com by the District 24 Republican party. According to the resolution, Representative Kiefert’s vote to remove and expel fellow legislator Representative Luke Simons earlier this year without due process goes against established legislative rules, the North Dakota Republican Platform, the const...

Kolette Kramer, Towner The last lynching in ND was near Watford City on January 29, 1931. A mob of angry citizens broke into the jail at Schafer, North Dakota and took Charles Bannon and hung him from a nearby bridge. Some North Dakotans feel the last lynching in North Dakota happened last week in Bismarck at the State Capitol and it was done by our elected officials who are voted in to make the laws. On March 4th the North Dakota House of Representatives brought accusations and publicly held...

(Bismarck, ND) -- After numerous allegations of sexual and verbally abusive misconduct, leadership from the North Dakota House of Representatives is calling on one of their own to resign. House majority leader Chet Pollert made the announcement of the legislatures' request of resignation for Luke Simons Friday afternoon. Pollert put out the following statement on Simons

After spending the last half of the week doing damage control over comments by Dickinson Representative Luke Simons, leaders of the North Dakota GOP are now calling for Simons resignation. House Majority Leader -- Carrington Representative Chet Pollert -- says initially, the issues with Representative Simons began when he used expletives toward another lawmaker who asked him to put on a mask while in the capitol lunchroom… "...Because after that, there was an open records request and more stu...

Update 3:07 PM Top Republicans in the North Dakota House called today (Fri) for GOP state Rep. Luke Simons to ...

Records of prior allegations against Rep. Luke Simons came to light after he used profanity in a confrontation with two Democratic lawmakers in the Capitol cafeteria on Tuesday.

North Dakota GOP leadership calls for resignation of defiant lawmaker after harassment allegations The announcement follows a long list of complaints against Rep. Luke Simons, R-Dickinson, over the last two days. Written By: Adam Willis | × Rep. Luke Simons, R-Dickinson. Josiah C. Cuellar / The Dickinson Press BISMARCK — North Dakotas Republican House leadership called for the resignation of Rep. Luke Simons, R-Dickinson, Friday, Feb. 26, after a slew of sexual...

BISMARCK, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The actions of Representative Simons this week were wrong. In investigating this incident, many more instances of troubling and inappropriate behavior have come to our attention. Sexual harassment in any form is unacceptable and accusing staff and fellow legislators of lying about harassment is inexcusable. Information provided to us by Legislative Council this week, as well as Representative Simons’ subsequent actions, show a pattern of behavior that we do...

ND House GOP calls on Simons to resign Jacob Notermann © Provided by Minot-Bsmrck-Dcknsn(Wlstn) KFYR-TV Rep. Luke Simons, R-Dickinson BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - The North Dakota Republican leadership is calling on Rep. Luke Simons, R-Dickinson, to resign from the State Legislature following reports of misconduct became public this week. Simons is accused of speaking inappropriately, giving unsolicited shoulder messages, and other “really creepy” behavior with legislative att...

Dickinson Legislator Accused Of Being A Major Dick. The actual 14 page file is now posted at the end of the article...but lets read first OK? Be warned, in the following article there may be w*rds containing asterisks along with abbreviations (WTF?) that may not be suitable for the feint of heart and certainly not suitable for an elected official that should be representing all North Dakotans. Its fair to say that as a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives,  Luke Simons is pretty...