FARGO — Gov. Doug Burgum was supposed to be in North Dakota on Friday to help break ground at the state's newest state park, Pembina Gorge. A press release went out from the governor's office Wednesday saying Burgum would help some local kids with the task.
An updated release was sent Friday morning without Burgum's name, saying only the youth would break ground. Where's the governor and why couldn't he be in the state to do the state's business? I mean, he could've worn his chaps and everything. He's in New York City, of course, playing his all-important role as Vice President Wannabe.
Burgum clearly no longer cares to be governor of North Dakota, now that he's close enough to being the next Mike Pence he can smell the gallows. Burgum stripped off his Carhartt shirt and cowboy hat Thursday and threw on his Trump uniform (dark suit, red tie, orange face paint) and jetted off to the Big Apple to be the former president's emotional support houseboy. The governor made the TV rounds after a jury convicted Trump on 34 felony counts, spewing the usual talking points about a "sham trial" and the judge being a "Biden supporter.
" We'd expect nothing less than undermining the criminal justice system from a law-and-order Republican like Burgum. After all, his hand-picked choice to succeed him in the governor's office, Tammy Oakley, once fended off a horde of bandits from her family lumber store the old-fashioned way: By gnawing on a hand-rolled cigarette and growling, "Do you feel luc.
