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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 constitution of North Dakota, and the constitution of the United States. The resolution said, despite Rep...

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 a “trial.” By the end of the session they had voted to expel District 36 Representative Luke Si...

(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 stuff came out. When we hit crossover, which was Wednesday, it had started then. And Thursday and Frid...

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