It’s more than likely Rep. Cramer will be appointed to Heitkamp’s seat. She doesn’t want to face him in 2018. She lucked out in 2012 because freshman Rep. Rick Berg turned out to be unusually weak. Berg should’ve stayed in the House and Cramer should’ve been the Senate nominee in ‘12, as he would’ve handily won.
I agree with your observations. Rick Berg was my state rep when I lived in Fargo. Both my late parents and I worked on his campaign. He had been in Congress for only two years when he ran for the senate. Many of us wanted him to get more seasoning before running for higher office. Former Governor
Ed Shaffer would have won the race in a walk. I am not sure about Kevin Crammer.
Heidi! also lucked out with massive fraud on the Indian reservations, which put her over the top, Berg is entitled to be called a Senator-elect until the term expires.
An aside, I was looking at the SOUTH Dakota counties and saw one called “Oglala Lakota” and I went WTF, Shannon county changed it’s name. Lame. Seems like local tribal leaders decided they wanted to diss the man it was named for, Peter Shannon. THe law seems to say that the state leg and Governor had to go along with it after county voters apporoved it, “the legislature “shall” pass a resolttion approving it”. A few in the leg voted no anyway, I’d have joined them, stop voting 86% rat and maybe I “shall” care about your opinions.
Reservations should have been abolised and Indians assimilated long ago. 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.