{"id":1419,"date":"2008-01-11T23:40:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T04:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2012-05-08T23:41:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:41:02","slug":"an-angle-you-might-not-get-from-the-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"An angle you might not get from the local news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/senator_combover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"501\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I&#8217;m actually not referring to the combover photo, but I guess the local media stays well clear of that too, in order to preserve their access to the Senator.<\/p>\n<p>I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxnet.com\/getArticle.asp?l_s=dailyemail&amp;ArticleId=197124\" target=\"_blank\"> this article yesterday<\/a> talking about how Kildeer Mountain Manufacturing (&#8220;Manufactuing&#8221; according to KX News) is looking forward to &#8220;sharing the award&#8221; of a big defense contract with U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/dakotadefensealliance.com\/press\/press-dickinson-KMM-080807.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this press release<\/a>, KMM&#8217;s &#8220;director of business development&#8221; is one Kristin Hedger, who tried a horribly misleading campaign against Secretary of State Al Jaeger last election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/nddemnpl.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/kristin-hedger-undoubtedly-resident.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post on the official ND Dem-NPL blog<\/a>, Kristin Hedger offered as proof of her ND citizenship: <em>&#8220;a letter from the North Dakota Tax Department and also the form that shows she lists North Dakota for tax withholding during her time working in Senator Byron Dorgan&#8217;s office, starting in May 2001.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is there something the Hedger family and Dorgan should be disclosing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually not referring to the combover photo, but I guess the local media stays well clear of that too, in order to preserve their access to the Senator. I saw this article yesterday talking about how Kildeer Mountain Manufacturing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1419\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}