You know what they say, follow the money.
While I have said we have good choices in central district candidates Bardon, DeBoer and Hurlbert I’m a bit wary of candidate Soehl after reading his financial report (FULL DOC:  Soehl-Finance )
It seems Mr. Soehl has a lot of big wheels behind him hoping they will get their corporate welfare rubber stamper on the city council to do their bidding.
Here’s a list of a few of his donors;
Cindy Huether (Mayor Huether’s wife)
Nathan Peterson (Sanford Health)
Lowell Hyland (Retired MD, Angel Investor)
Mark Wahlstrom (VP Business Development, First Dakota Title)
Dana Dykhouse (President of First Premier)
Scott Gullickson (VP at First Premier Bank)
Dave Sweet (Chairman of the Board, Ramkota Companies)
Nick Gustafson (Bender Commercial)
David Knutson (First Premier Bankcard)
Mike Crane (Developer)
Steve Erpenbach (Current Central District city councilor Michelle Erpenbach’s husband)
Michael Bender (Developer, Bender Commercial, chair of Jim Entenman’s mayoral campaign)
Dennis Breske (Commercial Realtor, NAI)
Craig Lloyd (Developer, Lloyd Companies)
The next financial report is due on April 5th (the Thursday before the Tuesday election). Hopefully all the candidate reports will be filed online by the end of the day Friday so voters have a chance to ‘follow the money’ before the election on Tuesday.