Small Support for Sand?

Via The Forum's Web site...

Political notebook
Janell Cole and Don Davis, Forum Communications Co.

Campaign kick-off

Usually when one walks into the North Dakota Republican headquarters in Bismarck for a candidate's campaign kick-off announcement, it's hard to get past the front door.

The building is always packed with throngs of GOP legislators, elected state officials and their deputies and various party pooh-bahs and activists.

They were missing Thursday afternoon when Duane Sand announced that he'll run against U.S. Rep. Earl Pomeroy for the second time in four years. The few who were there included Sand's wife, Holly, and two children; three young men working for his campaign; another who works for Sand's employer, Americans for Prosperity, and a few Republican women who work at the GOP office most days.

Read on...