Congratulations are in order to all of the legislative candidates who received the endorsement of North Dakota United and won election on Nov. 6, 2018!
NDU members choose candidates to recommend based on information collected through voting records, candidate surveys and face-to-face interviews. Your endorsement matters! You work on the front lines of public education and public services in the state of North Dakota. Your communities look to your opinions and expertise in deciding who to elect to lead. In the N.D. Senate, 13 of NDU’s 18 recommended candidates won their races. Those women and men were:
7 Nicole Poolman
9 Richard Marcellais
11 Tim Mathern
13 Judy Lee
21 Kathy Hogan
23 Joan Heckaman
35 Erin Oban
37 Rich Wardner
41 Kyle Davison
43 JoNell Bakke
45 Ronald Sorvaag
In the N.D. House of Representatives, 19 of NDU’s 33 recommended candidates won election or re-election. They were:
9 Tracy Boe
9 Marvin Nelson
11 Gretchen Dobervich
11 Ron Guggisberg
15 Dennis Johnson
15 Greg Westlind
17 Mark Sanford
21 LaurieBeth Hager
21 Mary Schneider
25 Alisa Mitskog
25 Cynthia Schreiber Beck
27 Thomas Beadle
27 Ruth Buffalo
35 Bob Martinson
41 Pamela Anderson
43 Mary Adams
43 Matt Eidson
45 Mary Johnson
47 George Keiser
The quality public education and public services that our members provide to all our students and citizens is at the heart of what our union strives to do. Every position that our union takes during legislative session, every action we lobby behind, is based on us all doing what’s right for the recruitment and retention, the safety and security of highly qualified public educators and public employees.
Additional congratulations go out to NDU’s endorsed candidate for N.D. Attorney General, Wayne Stenehjem. And the NDU Board of Directors chose to recommend a “yes” vote on Measure 1, the ethics measure, which won passage in our state. And the Board recommended a “no” vote on Measure 3, to legalize recreational marijuana, and that measure fell short.
Your voice matters! United, we voted, we knocked doors, we made phone calls, we talked to our neighbors, friends, family and colleagues about the importance of the elections. We requested absentee ballots in record numbers this year, and we expect that the numbers will show that