Berg kicks off ‘North Dakota Way’ tour

U.S. House of Representatives candidate Rick Berg is taking his message across the state as he continues on a nine-day “North Dakota Way” tour that kicked off Wednesday in Hettinger, the Republican’s hometown.

Berg is challenging nine-term Democratic-NPL incumbent Rep. Earl Pomeroy, who has held the state’s lone office in the U.S. House since 1992.

“There is a Washington way and a North Dakota way, and that is what our campaign is about,” Berg wrote in a Tuesday news release.

He said Washington has given the country “nationalized health care,” “taxpayer-funded bailouts” and “record deficits,” but North Dakotans do things differently.

“I believe that Washington can learn a lot about the way we do things in North Dakota, and that’s why I am running,” Berg wrote.

Berg is scheduled to stop in Bismarck, Washburn and Williston on Thursday and will hold events in western North Dakota on Friday and Saturday.

He’ll be in Mooreton and Casselton on Monday; Jamestown and Bismarck on Tuesday; Fargo, Devils Lake and Maddock on Wednesday; and Wahpeton, Valley City and Edgeley next Thursday.

Berg’s tour will conclude Friday, Sept. 10 with a stop in Grand Forks before he goes to Fargo for a grand office opening and barbeque at the Berg campaign headquarters.

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