This just in

I feel like a reporter but I suppose that every blogger IS a reporter of things in their part of the world.  Anyway, Nikki McAlpin who managed Paul Sorum's campaign, just wrote this in an email this morning.  I asked her if she minds my sharing it with the world and she just wrote back saying that she doesn't.  

Folks, THIS is why we needed Paul Sorum to be our next Governor but, of course, the establishment made sure that it wouldn't happen--the rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Are YOU aware that good people are leaving our state???  Are you aware that native North Dakotans are being run off of their farms in the name of oil money? 

 Nikki, like all of us here, was hoping to persuade Paul to run in the primaries however her desperation couldn't grasp his commitment to his word last week not to do so.   Here's Nikki's email in it's entirety.  I totally understand her urgency to get Paul to run in the primaries and applaud her efforts to save her farm and her way of life.  What kind of a wimp gives up their farm without a fight?  I grieve with her and I hope and pray that your heart will be pricked to get involved and voice an outcry to our Governor (he wants the privileges then he should take his responsibilities too) against what is happening in Western North Dakota.

FOR PEACE AND QUIET EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dawn



Good morning,

I want to explain all the contradicting emails last night. It's my fault, not Paul's.

I don't think people realize the extend of the mass destruction and killing of our North Dakota lives that is happening out here. Dalrymple, his cronies, and his big-money backers do not give a rip about killing our people, and they're too stupid to realize that they should be protecting our agriculture. I can't tell you how many letters are in our papers telling of the stupidity of destroying agriculture, most with the inclusion of "are you going to eat and drink oil?" We have a nation to feed, a growing population, and this idiot government we have, destroys our agriculture - our food supplies - over oil... pummeling us down as if every drop of oil has to be extracted yesterday. They are the epitome of 'greed breeds stupid'.

I also wish you could see the daily headlines in every paper telling of the destruction of our people and our lives out here. While the fools in office tell every blood-sucker in the country to 'come out here to ND... buy up our lands... wipe out our people... build up your business... and you don't have to pay any taxes to do it!' ...only the North Dakotans have to pay the taxes.... it's our own money the Hoeven-Dalrymple dynasty uses to beat us down with.... they destroy our lives.

Paul Sorum has been the ONLY person who has come out here, acknowledged the truth of the mass destruction, realized the critical need to PROTECT AGRICULTURE, and care about the PEOPLE. We know that if we cannot get Paul into office, we are doomed. And that is not an exaggeration. Our senior citizens have already been shoved out of their own homes and even their own state... those incredible people who overcame every obstacle to settle our homesteads and lands, and make ND what it is today. The oil money and greed has literally stolen their homes, and they've had to move out of state, every one of them was over 80 years old. Can you even try to imagine the heartbreak and the fear of that?

Ranchers are selling out and moving out. In their stead, comes concrete, greed, and crime that has been unheard of in our lives. Do you have any idea what it's like to sleep with a pistol within finger-reach of your pillow? In our own homes? Every single door has now had to have locks put on them. Our barns, tack rooms, and trailers now have to be locked. Women are being taught how to use weapons of self-defense, and most of us carry pistols everywhere we go now. THIS is what the idiots Dalrymple, Hoeven, their cronies, and big-money backers have done to our people.

The demise of agriculture is also devastating. How are cattle supposed to live with no grazing lands and no water? And where will crops be planted when the lands are concrete?

The devastation is unreal.

I pushed Paul to allow me to at least get signatures for him to be in the primary. We so desperately need a leader who will protect our state, our people, and our lands. But, when he said okay to the 'signatures', he agreed to it as a 'just in case' scenario. I, however, was more desperate and ecstatic than sensible. He had not agreed to run in the primary yet. Thus, my huge error in the emails last night. I had been working on plans, letters, and fliers to run in the primary, since we returned from Bismarck... and I went way ahead of where Paul had agreed to, when I sent out what I did.

So, I apologize for the confusion, and want to make sure you understand the blame is completely mine.

If we can't get the establishment out of power, we are doomed out here. Brett and I will join the many ranchers who are selling out and leaving, as crime and destruction kill our cattle, our lands, our water, and our lives. We have gone from a quiet, great place to live, to the pit of the country. And the state slogan can be in the spotlight, nationwide, "Greed Breeds Stupidity - all bloodsuckers welcome".

Talk to ya later,

Nikki

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Nikki McAlpin

Sorum for Governor Campaign

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701-870-2694