Port: New NDGOP leaders lack the courage of their convictions

Port: New NDGOP leaders lack the courage of their convictions

MINOT — "I will not be donating to the state party this election cycle," a former Republican lawmaker wrote to me Thursday morning. The email was in reaction to news that the North Dakota Republican Party approved two censures for Gov. Kelly Armstrong. One expressed its dismay with Armstrong and the Republican-controlled Legislature over the property tax reform they passed into law. The other censured Armstrong, specifically, for his veto of boo…