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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
Letter from Jack Schauer
Fargo, N.D.
One of the most frustrating and negative aspects of the Hoeven Administration is when he utilizes the method of co-optation in order to increase his popularity among North Dakota voters. For example, Hoeven’s property tax plan and his program for funding education are issues which have already been propounded by Sen. Tim Mathern and other Democrats for quite some time now. It is no secret among Democrats, and some Republicans, that this is the way Hoeven operates. Like other issues, Hoeven has borrowed from the Democrats. He only shows up in the media, when he is good and ready, to take credit for a program, where due credit often is not earned.
However, from this writer’s vantage point, this is the well-known political strategy of Gov. Hoeven. He will let other interested parties, (again, mostly Democratic in nature), to decide, resolve or even create programs, such as the property tax and educational funding ideas, and once the issue is inevitably settled, he will suddenly take credit it for it, when in reality, he shouldn’t be credited for it. In this sense he is a “copycat.” This is not something new in political circles. Most politicians in North Dakota already know this. One wonders when he will decide to borrow Sen. Mathern’s program for covering all children via medical care in North Dakota?
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