MINOT — The North Dakota Ethics Commission has three vacancies, and the people who are tasked by state law with filling those vacancies — Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Senate Majority Leader David Hogue and Senate Minority Leader Kathy Hogan — all agree on three replacements.

Pam Sharp, former director of the North Dakota Office of Management and Budget, Jared Huibregtse, a project manager for a Mandan engineering firm, and Mark Western, a Fargo attorney, all have the support of Armstrong, Hogue and Hogan.

So why haven't they made the appointments? Because Hogue and Hogan want Murray Sagsveen, a current member of the commission, to be reappointed. Armstrong does not. “I just won’t vote for him,” Armstrong said during a meeting this week to consider the appointments, arguing that the current fi

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