District 14 legislators ‘disappointed’ by GOP board shift
By Sue Sitter - | Apr 24, 2021
North Dakota District 14 Representatives Jon Nelson, Robin Weisz and Senator Jerry Klein expressed disappointment with a shift to the right by local Republican Party members at a reorganization meeting held April 10 in Rugby.
“I’ve been serving the Rugby area for 24 years,” Nelson said. “We did redistricting 10 years ago and that’s when we became District 14. That’s when Senator Klein and Representative Weisz were made a part of this district as well,” Nelson explained.
“We have served in the same fashion,” Nelson said. “We have some of the most powerful positions from a rural North Dakota perspective of any district in the state of North Dakota. Representative Weisz is chairman of the Human Services Policy Committee; I’m chairman of the human resource section of the Appropriations Committee, which has the human service budget in it – the Department of Corrections