Island pays N.D. legislators’ trip: All business
By Janell Cole
The Forum
Sunday, October 23, 2005
BISMARCK – Five North Dakota legislators – including four from Fargo – took a four-day, all-expenses paid trip to Antigua earlier this month on an unofficial trade mission paid for by the tiny Caribbean island country.
Rep. Jim Kasper arranged the trip for fellow state House Republican representatives Mark Dosch, Bette Grande, Ron Iverson and Blair Thoreson. All but Dosch, who’s from Bismarck, represent Fargo districts at the Capitol.
Two others, Rep. Dave Weiler, R-Bismarck, and Sen. Duaine Espegard, R-Grand Forks, were invited but did not go.
An Oct. 1 Antiguan government news release said the trip was to discuss Internet gaming.
“High on the agenda will be discussions on Internet gaming and the development of a corresponding banking relationship with the Bank of North Dakota, the only state-owned bank in the United States managed by the legislators,” the release said.
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The Forum
Sunday, October 23, 2005
BISMARCK – Five North Dakota legislators – including four from Fargo – took a four-day, all-expenses paid trip to Antigua earlier this month on an unofficial trade mission paid for by the tiny Caribbean island country.
Rep. Jim Kasper arranged the trip for fellow state House Republican representatives Mark Dosch, Bette Grande, Ron Iverson and Blair Thoreson. All but Dosch, who’s from Bismarck, represent Fargo districts at the Capitol.
Two others, Rep. Dave Weiler, R-Bismarck, and Sen. Duaine Espegard, R-Grand Forks, were invited but did not go.
An Oct. 1 Antiguan government news release said the trip was to discuss Internet gaming.
“High on the agenda will be discussions on Internet gaming and the development of a corresponding banking relationship with the Bank of North Dakota, the only state-owned bank in the United States managed by the legislators,” the release said.
Click here to read the entire article...
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