{"id":2286,"date":"2010-01-22T01:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T06:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2013-06-22T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T20:49:08","slug":"this-weeks-episode-of-follow-the-dorgan-pomeroy-money-trail-connect-the-dots-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;Follow the Dorgan &#038; Pomeroy Money Trail&#8221; &#8211; Connect the Dots edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/pomeroy_owned_23026.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Here are a few interesting bits of news for you to piece together and see if a big picture reveals itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxnet.com\/getArticle.asp?s=rss&amp;ArticleId=503752\" target=\"_blank\">According to this KX News article<\/a>, Earl Pomeroy is once again being considered for a cushy job for a life insurance lobbying group. He was in the running several years ago as well, presumably with contacts he made while ND Insurance Commissioner. It&#8217;s called ACLI, for American Council of Life Insurers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.property-casualty.com\/Issues\/2010\/January-11-2009\/Pages\/Insurance-Industry-Losing-Two-Senate-Allies.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">This insurance industry publication article<\/a> talks about the loss of Democrats in the Senate. It points out that <i>&#8220;Sen. Dorgan\u2019s wife, Kim Dorgan, is senior executive vice president for public policy at the American Council of Life Insurers, its top lobbying position.&#8221;<\/i> I find it remarkably convenient that the wife of one of these &#8220;Senate allies&#8221; holds a cushy lobbying position with the group. Something smell fishy here? I thought so, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/politicians\/contrib.php?cycle=Career&amp;cid=N00008113&amp;type=I\" target=\"_blank\">According to opensecrets.org<\/a>, The number one contributor to Earl Pomeroy&#8217;s election campaigns is a life insurance company. In fact, there are several insurance companies kicking in big dollars to Earl, along with labor unions, of course. In fact, there isn&#8217;t a single North Dakota entity listed in his list of top contributors! Let&#8217;s not forget, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/legacy\/index.php?entry=entry091117-120000\" target=\"_blank\">he gets ninety percent of his money from out of state donors!<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/dorgan_box.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Back to Kim Dorgan for a second. Her husband is a United States Senator. She holds the &#8220;top lobbying position&#8221; for a big lobbying firm&#8230;yet we&#8217;re supposed to believe that she lives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/legacy\/index.php?entry=entry091225-125648\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Once this news broke, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/01\/15\/financial\/f121503S55.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> was released, claiming that Pomeroy is not interested in the job. That may or may not be true, but it brings to light an important point.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakotans have caught on to Dorgan, Conrad, and Pomeroy. We know our Senators live in ND on paper, not really occupying the apartment building owned by Senator Conrad&#8217;s LLC. We know how these jokers vote, and where their money is coming from. We even know that Congressman Pomeroy&#8217;s on a short list for a cushy lobbyist position alongside the wife of another North Dakota career politician.<\/p>\n<p>While the mainstream media wouldn&#8217;t take the twenty minutes required to track this stuff and write about it, an average guy can put the pieces together in no time and let &#8217;em go viral on the Internet. The &#8220;new media&#8221; is a force these politicians can&#8217;t stop yet, although I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d like to try. Now that the people can arm themselves with information, we&#8217;re a far greater threat to these politicians than they could ever imagine. Now&#8230;let&#8217;s set about giving Earl Pomeroy the opportunity to explore other career options this November!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few interesting bits of news for you to piece together and see if a big picture reveals itself. According to this KX News article, Earl Pomeroy is once again being considered for a cushy job for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=2286\">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-2286","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\/2286","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=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}