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To all in Dist 14,

As you can see in the letter below I have been asked to resign my
duties as District 14 Chairman which I will do as of the writing of this
letter in accordance to the demand of the State GOP executive
committee.
Dennis,
The Executive Committee voted unanimously last night to request that
you resign your position as District Chairman. While North Dakota
Century Code allows for candidates who lose at the District Endorsing
Convention to move forward to the primary, our State Party Rules are
clear. The District Chairman's role is to "do all other acts necessary to
accomplish the programs and policies of....the District Convention." As
member of the State Committee you have a responsibility to support
your endorsed candidates. It is impossible for you to do that if you are
challenging them in the primary.
Over the last several months the NDGOP has had record turnout at
District Conventions all across the state. The grass roots energy and
enthusiasm for our candidates and our process has been tremendous.
Having one of our District Chairs disregard that process, the process
he is in charge of administering, threatens the integrity of the entire
convention process.
While I cannot control candidates going to the primary, I have been
clear to everyone that the NDGOP supports the endorsed
candidates. This is important for our party. It will be impossible in the
future to get supporters and candidates to participate in our process if
the results don't matter. Your actions disregarding the results of your
District Convention and moving to the primary calls into question the
integrity of our entire process at a time when party unity and
momentum is just starting to build.
I cannot force you to resign. Only the State Committee can remove a
member and our next meeting is not until June 25, 2016. I hope you
will consider this request seriously. If not, I want you to know that
regardless of the outcome of the primary I intend to address this at
Roundup. This is nothing personal. I like you and wish you the best of
luck. But if our party is to continue to thrive in this state, we need
defend the processes we have in place and honor the results.
Please call me if you have any questions.
Kelly Armstrong
Chairman, NDGOP

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I have been asked why we would challenge the endorsed

Republican legislators in our district. Well, the establishment has just
shown you a very good reason. It is sad that our legislators can
influence our state party to take it to this extreme, simply because I
wanted to exercise my right to run for this position with the hopes of
bringing the GOP back to the conservative principles smaller
government, lower taxes and fewer regulations that your
Republican Party once stood for.
We as a team (that is myself running for State house, Glen Baltrusch
running for State Senate and Albert Krueger running for the other State
House seat) believe, as do many others in District 14 believe the status
quo branch of the GOP has left their conservative roots. It's no wonder
the NDGOP is having difficulty raising money, has seen participation at
the district level across the state shrinking, as we've seen with the
Democratic Party. State NDGOP as well as our incumbent
representatives have become a party of elected elite that say, "do it
our way or stay out of the way". Unfortunately they represent "special
interests" when it comes to spending our money - not the citizens of
District 14.
Unfortunately, "doing it their way.." has grown the size of state
government, taxes, rules, regulations and has effectively frozen out
more and more who wish to become involved. It is no wonder that so
many throughout the nation are leaving the GOP and burning their
credentials.
When I was elected District 14 Republican Chairman I was shocked to
see there was virtually no one involved in our District party. We invited
people to get involved. What was most depressing was how many said
they were ignored, there were no meetings and when they wished to
become involved were told there was nothing they needed to do.
Jerry Klein, Jon Nelson and Robin Weisz have repeatedly voted against
the wishes and interests of the majority of District 14 voters and
instead supported special interests.
This included their aggressive support of Common Core and Smarter
Balance testing. Their votes in favor of Common Core were the
deciding factor in imposing Common Core and Smarter Balance on our

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children. K-12 is a special interest lobby that is more interested

in Federal money than the welfare of our children.
Our current legislators voted to provide almost half a billion dollars this
biennium to subsidize the college education of non-resident families.
No other state in the nation does this. Higher Education is a special
interest lobby.
Robin has been the Chairman of the Human Services committee for ten
years. During this time he has lead the increase in state general fund
welfare spending from $400 million to over $1.3 billion. This during the
greatest historical growth in our economy and while there are more
than 12,000 jobs unfilled statewide. Total welfare spending in the
current biennium, including Federal funds, is almost $3.58 billion. Total
funding for ALL education in North Dakota (K-12, higher education and
all other) is $1 billion less than what we spend growing welfare.
Welfare is a special interest lobby.
All three of our current state legislators have supported a 225% growth
in State spending over the past ten years. Rather than reducing our
tax burden in the last 10 years state government revenue has
increased from $1.8 billion to $4.98 billion - it has gone to growing a
larger and larger government with no relief for us and our families.
Finally, many of you are aware of the Bore Hole. However, when it
became obvious it was not popular with those of us in District 14 we
protested it being located in our District. Our legislators refused to
support the petition to stop it.
We believe it is time for change, for new blood and for true
representation for our families and our district. Our current legislators
have not been representing the district and we felt we would do our
part in trying to bring change to our District.
I am very pleased and thankful for all those who DID support Ida and
myself in this journey. I'm leaving at the demand of the NDGOP. I
leave with a strong sense of accomplishment for what was done and
for all those who joined us in an effort to grow our district.
Ida worked countless hours in making this a better district and is owed
a great debt of gratitude. I thank the dozens of Republicans that came

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back to make our District again vibrant. I would like to thank you for
the time you allowed me to serve you as Chairman.
My final request is to suggest that if you have any desire to see true
conservative values brought back into the GOP you send a team of
Representatives that know, live and understand true Republican values
and principles to Bismarck.
Your vote can change the direction of the GOP. Remember to vote for
Albert Krueger for House, Glen Baltrusch for Senate & Dennis Fred for House on June 14, 2016.
God Bless You All
Former Dist 14 Chairman and current candidate for State House of
Representatives
Dennis Fred