{"id":246194,"date":"2022-04-06T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=246194"},"modified":"2022-04-07T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:13:14","slug":"kim-koppelman-not-seeking-re-election-dist-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=246194","title":{"rendered":"Kim Koppelman not seeking re-election District 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(CSi)\u00a0 ND Speaker of the House, Rep. Kim Koppelman, announced that he will <\/span>not seek re-election, following the District 13 Republican Endorsing Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

He issued the <\/span>following statement:\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI announced last evening, before the vote, that I would not run for the Republican nomination in <\/span>the June Primary election, although I believe I could win such a race.<\/span> This is not about me.<\/span> I <\/span>have always believed that one should run for office in order to<\/span> do<\/span> something, not in order to<\/span> be\u00a0<\/span>something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Having served for many years and accomplished much, I had seriously considered retiring from <\/span>the Legislature this year and it was only the strong encouragement from constituents and<\/span>
legislative colleagues which prompted me to throw my hat in the ring, once more.<\/span> I even <\/span>considered withdrawing as a candidate before last night\u2019s meeting, but did not feel that would <\/span>have been fair to the many who gave of their time and money to attend and support me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTorey and I are at peace with the decision to retire and are grateful, beyond words, for the love <\/span>and support of so many in West Fargo and throughout North Dakota.<\/span> Representing our <\/span>community and state in the Legislature has truly been a labor of love and we now look forward <\/span>to completing my term as Speaker of the House and to the next chapter, whatever the Good<\/span>
Lord may have in store.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The North Dakota House of Representatives elected Rep. Kim Koppelman (R, West Fargo) as <\/span>Speaker of the House in 2020. He had emerged earlier from a three-way race in the <\/span>Republican caucus before being elected by the full House of Representatives. He is the first<\/span>Speaker in state history to hail from West Fargo and has served in many other leadership roles.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rep. Koppelman was first elected in 1994. The long-time Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, <\/span>he previously chaired the Constitutional Revision and Administrative Rules Committees. He <\/span>was elected the national Chairman of the Council of State Governments (CSG), made up of all <\/span>three branches of government in all 50 states, in 2008. He currently chairs the Interim Judiciary <\/span>Committee and serves on Legislative Management, the Budget Section, the Legislative <\/span>Procedures and Arrangements Committee, the Juvenile Justice Commission and the Children\u2019s <\/span>Cabinet. Nationally, he chairs the CSG Shared Legislation Committee as well as the Civil\u00a0<\/span>Justice Task Force and the Regulatory State Reform Committee of the American Legislative <\/span>Exchange Council. He also serves on the Executive Committees of the Council of State<\/span>Governments and the Midwest Legislative Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n


Speaker Koppelman will complete his term of office in December. He retires as the senior <\/span>member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from Cass County.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(CSi)\u00a0 ND Speaker of the House, Rep. Kim Koppelman, announced that he will not seek re-election, following the District 13 Republican Endorsing Convention. He issued the following statement:\u00a0\u201cI announced last evening, before the vote, that I would not run for the Republican nomination in the June Primary election, although I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246302,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246194\/revisions\/246302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}