To the Editor:
The Dakota Energy Board of Directors are the first to challenge Basin Electric and East River’s monopoly authoritarian control over our local cooperative. When the board asked for a buyout number to see if we could save us all some money, Basin and East River went into attack mode to demonize and discredit Dakota Energy’s desire for energy independence. It was East River’s PR guy, Chris Studer’s job, to lead that attack. Studer, a liberal Democrat, used the membership lists of local Democratic party and Farmers Union to gather mouthpieces for his attacks. Studer hasn’t hidden his ties to the Democratic party; The Plainsman reported Studer spoke at the Beadle County Democratic Party meeting.
East River’s Studer, a Joe Biden guy, recruited three Democrats to eventually take operative control of our cooperative. These three Democrats have been operatives for the Democratic party their whole lives, using all the old tricks of the Democratic party. The first thing Tommy Baruth did was send a mailer encouraging members to stuff the ballot box by telling those with more than one meter to put the meters in different names. A move right out of the Democratic play book. Google and search Facebook for the Democrat members running for the board (Baruth, Nemec and Raschke) and decide for yourself if you want these Biden Democrats running our local cooperative. North Dakota’s Basin Electric has encouraged out-of-state interests to give money to the Democrat’s campaigns. Don’t let out of state and liberal money steal the election of our locally owned cooperative. These three Joe Biden Democrats do not want energy independence for your country, and certainly do not want energy independence for our local cooperative. Vote for Dave Gross, David Allen, and Jeff Madison on June 14 for energy independence.
Todd Bushong
Tulare
