With the whole nation, and even many parts of the world, watching with growing interest what is happening at Standing Rock, this is the perfect time for us to reach out and help North Dakota.
As outside oil interests, with the help of current government officials, try to steamroll a pipeline past citizens and the First People of North Dakota, it’s a chance for us to go into action.
There are people running for office in North Dakota, South Dakota, and other places (this pipeline will go through 4 states) who would not have allowed this in the first place, would have stopped it in the second place and never would have let peaceful protesters be attacked in the third place.
We can now do what we signed up to do when we registered here at Daily Kos — help elect more and better Democrats. We can start by emailing this diary to everyone on our email list and ask them to email it to everyone on their email list.
The simple math of “6 degrees of separation” says we will reach a whole bunch of voters in ND with this list of candidates who can, and will, do something about this and future pipelines.
NORTH DAKOTA
Chase Iron Eyes running for At Large Congress. He was born and lives on Standing Rock Reservation. The top contributors to his opponent, Kevin Cramer’s campaign are: Oasis Petroleum, MBI Energy Services, Armstrong Corp, Western CO of Texas, Cody Oil & Gas. Let’s help Chase Iron Eyes level the playing field. DONATE
Marvin Nelson running for Governor of ND. He has an insiders knowledge of the oil industry because of the work he does as an agricultural consultant. He supports all the Native American candidates running in ND and they support him as well. DONATE
Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun — running for North Dakota Public Service Commission — they issue permits for PIPELINES, among other things. DONATE
Ruth Buffalo — running for North Dakota Insurance Commissioner DONATE
SOUTH DAKOTA
Paula Hawks running for At Large Congress. Issues facing Indian Country are one of her top priorities. DONATE
Jay Williams running for US Senate in South Dakota, is an advocate on Native American issues. He stands with #NoDAPL DONATE
Henry Red Cloud running for South Dakota Public Utilities Commission. Henry Red Cloud runs a solar energy business on Pine Ridge Reservation and has been setting up installations at the Standing Rock Protest site. DONATE
Be sure to read — Make no mistake: Standing Rock is on the ballot by Mark Trahant
All of these candidates have another thing in common, they are supporters of 90for90.
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