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Heidi Heitkamp's Donald Trump meeting sets off alarm bells for Democrats
WZVN Channel 7 News ^ | December 1, 2016 | Tal Kopan, Manu Raju and Jim Acosta

Posted on 12/02/2016 3:02:00 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

President-elect Donald Trump is set to meet Friday with North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a red-state Democrat, which could put Senate Democrats at a further disadvantage if she were to join the Trump administration.

Heitkamp told CNN Thursday she has no inkling of what the meeting may be about, but said she was open to discussing serving in a Trump administration.

News of the meeting set off a panic among top Democrats, some of whom began to privately make the case that Heitkamp should stay in the Senate rather than give up a seat that would likely be a GOP pickup. The incoming chairman of the Senate Democrats' campaign committee told CNN he had spoken with Heitkamp about the issue Thursday.

A transition source said Heitkamp could be a possibility for energy secretary.

"I think it's absolutely critical to have a conversation," Heitkamp said when asked if she would be open to being in the Trump administration. "It's good for my state. It's good for the work that I do here, to understand and share some priorities for the country and for the state of North Dakota and I look forward to having that discussion."

In a statement about the meeting, Heitkamp said she would work with both sides of the aisle -- whatever her role.

"Whatever job I do, I hope to work with the President-elect and all of my colleagues in Congress on both sides of the aisle to best support my state," she said.

While any position is far from a done deal, having Heitkamp in the Cabinet would be a double win for Republicans, and a blow to Democrats.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc-7.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: 114th; bigly; heitkamp
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To: DoodleDawg
She's from North Dakota. North Dakota has been as red as it gets and has been for decades. And yet she's won several statewide elections so I'd say she probably figures she has a better than even chance for reelection.

Conventional wisdom, eh?

Conventional wisdom said that Trump wouldn't even file for the race...and CW went downhill from there.

But to each his own. Keep repeating CW.

81 posted on 12/02/2016 11:10:44 PM PST by gogeo (That's my Trumpy!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Osage is considered one, the only tribe in the state to retain a federally recognized reservation.

I'm gobsmacked. I'm a native Sooner...and I get corrected by a Volunteer.

But the Osage Reservation (Osage County) has to be the oddest Indian reservation in the country. Of the 47-some thousand folks living in the county, 66% are white, 11% are black...and only 14% are Native American.

I've been to Osage County numerous times and was never aware that it was still a reservation. Nor did any of the folks from Osage County that I knew ever mention it.

I'm pretty sure the county government is separate and independent from the tribe, though.

82 posted on 12/02/2016 11:15:17 PM PST by okie01 ( The MainStream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Impy

Shannon has gone, I heard. She’s drifted out to sea.


83 posted on 12/03/2016 3:30:26 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: DoodleDawg
You're kidding, right?

I don't think I know enough about her to make a judgement on whether she would be good or bad.

Do you ?

84 posted on 12/03/2016 8:39:42 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: EDINVA

Senators server six years. 2018 - 6 is 2014, not 2008.


85 posted on 12/03/2016 8:45:27 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: DoughtyOne

Actually, there’s still the runoff in Louisiana so we should have 52 in the Senate, not 51.

GOP state Treasurer John Kennedy is the clear front-runner in the December 10th runoff against Democrat Foster Campbell, a state utility regulator and cattle farmer. A recent poll from Baton Rouge-based Southern Media and Opinion Research showed Kennedy with a 14-point lead.


86 posted on 12/03/2016 8:48:59 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
Err... 2018 - 6 is 2012.
87 posted on 12/03/2016 8:50:22 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

Excellent. We need as much cushion as we can get with the McCain, Graham, and others situation.

Someone mentioned the other day the idea these two might pull a Jeffords, and flip parties.

Graham is fighting tooth and nail to prevent deportation of illegal immigrants.

Now there’s a guy Trump should pull into his administration. McCain too. Keep them there for six months, and fire their asses.


88 posted on 12/03/2016 8:53:46 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: DoodleDawg

So why would she play along?....Power and $$$, would you suppose?


89 posted on 12/03/2016 9:42:03 AM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Secretary of Energy?

I wish people would keep in mind that the Department of Energy does very very little for energy. It is really the civilian agency responsible for defense nuclear weapons activities.

DOE's total budget for FY 2016 was $29.6M.

Of this:
$19.6 was for Atomic Energy Defense Activities: (Nuclear weapons, Naval Reactors (Admiral Rickover's outfit), and Nuclear waste clean-up (crony capitalism to pretend to do something about the legacy waste problem).
$5.7B was for Basic Science (national labs operating accelerators, etc.)

These activities were the province of the old Atomic Energy Commission which became ERDA under Nixon.

This leaves exactly $2.9B for energy activities and other assorted administrative tasks. Of this amount:
$638M is for fossil energy - this is a drop in the bucket, $2 / year per American citizen.
$1B is for nuclear energy (when was the last time that the DOE built a nuclear reactor?)
There is an additional $292 M for ARPA-E [DOE's venture capital effort after all the real venture capital firms have scraped off the good projects).

90 posted on 12/03/2016 10:03:32 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: kevao

Thanks Kevao. By expecting great things, you’re already ahead of some folks. Lets hope we underestimated him too.


91 posted on 12/03/2016 10:25:48 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: DoodleDawg

“So why would she play along?”

Energy Secretary has more prestige and influence and it would spare her a possibly losing reelection in 2018. She barely won in 2012.


92 posted on 12/03/2016 10:33:20 AM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: okie01

I’ve been in Osage, too. Unfortunately had to rush through it en route to Bartlesville (spent the night in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower). Pawhuska, the county seat, clearly had its glory days back during the early 20th century Oil Boom, most of the buildings dating from that time. I hope to get back there some day to photograph it.

You’re right about the demographics. I think a lot of the natives may have left. It has nearly 50k people, but it also did back around 80 years ago only to empty out down to below 30k. Osage extends all the way down to within sight of Downtown Tulsa and part of the county, I believe, has been annexed into it, which could account for the population growth again.

I’m not sure of the political divisions in the county with respect to tribal government. Given that the county and Osage Nation are considered contiguous according to the maps, it may be one in the same.


93 posted on 12/03/2016 2:22:24 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Grrrreat. Now I’m gonna have that song in my head.


94 posted on 12/03/2016 2:23:03 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: UCANSEE2

Well, her voting record is pretty lousy. There’s no such thing as a Conservative Democrat in federal office anymore, or even a moderate. You got left, ultraleft and Karl Childers moonbat (and everyone from the left onwards ought to be with Karl in the Nervous Hospital).


95 posted on 12/03/2016 2:25:07 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: AndyJackson

Most of these departments need to be closed down or folded back into the departments they were created from.


96 posted on 12/03/2016 2:27:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I meant those who came in with Obama in ‘12, not ‘08.


97 posted on 12/03/2016 3:49:58 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Well, the department they were created from was the Office of Scientific Research (during WWII) which turned into the Atomic Energy Commission, which became ERDA. It was pretty fine until this point. Then Jimmy Carter said that shale oil was good (his version of government funded shale oil - which was a disaster) and Amy Carter declared anything nuclear is bad. Voila the Department of Energy and its multiple discontents.

So, if you are recommending devolving DOE into the sub-cabinet level ERDA and disbanding the rest, that is a good thing to do. The problem is that people keep thinking that DOE does energy. It barely does that, and is not even a pimple on the private sector.

98 posted on 12/03/2016 4:33:53 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

A lot of folks similarly believe the Dept. of Education educates. Of course, a lot of people believe in the Tooth Fairy and the Great Pumpkin, too, and that gubmint-mandated raising of the minimum wage helps workers.

I think a good rule of thumb when it comes to almost anything government is, #1, is it Constitutional ? and #2, Would the Founding Fathers approve ? Most of it tends to fail one or both.


99 posted on 12/03/2016 5:17:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Impy; NFHale; Clintonfatigued; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker

“Reservations should have been abolised and Indians assimilated long ago.”

Great idea!!!

“I have cousins that are part Ho Chunk, they and their mom get free money from the casinos, a lot of money, patently uncool unless you let me run a card parlor or something whereever I want.”

Dafuq? You need in on that scam!!!


100 posted on 12/04/2016 4:37:32 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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