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  • Dutch police yesterday raided homes of member of the Orde der Transformanten (Order of Transformers), a small cult of Christianity located in Hoeven, Netherlands.

    Police raids Dutch sect 2008

  • This tactic would keep Pomeroy out of the Senate race for sure, because he would have to give up his House seat in order to enter the Dem primary for Senate, and he won’t do that if Hoeven is in the race on the GOP side.

    Senator Byron Dorgan’s (D, ND) retiring. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2010

  • Hoeven is going to run, and my guess is (given he is to announce it a day after Dorgan’s announcement) that he would have run with or without Dorgan in the race.

    Matthew Yglesias » Two Retirements 2010

  • In another sign of how non-polarized North Dakota politics is, Walaker, mayor of the state's largest city and a self-proclaimed "closet Republican," endorsed both Hoeven, a Republican, for the Senate and Pomeroy, a Democrat, for the House.

    An election without the economic angst Rachel Dry 2010

  • But as governor, Hoeven was good to teachers, so he's the union's candidate.

    An election without the economic angst Rachel Dry 2010

  • As the country has tipped into a deep recession over the past two years, North Dakota, under the leadership of the nation's longest-serving governor, John Hoeven, has bucked every trend.

    POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 2009

  • Penny SarchetWhen the European parliament issued a 2006 directive to introduce smart meters, Dutch economy minister Maria van der Hoeven responded with a demand that they be made compulsory, with heavy fines for those who refused.

    Smart grid leaders 2011

  • A case in point: Hoeven, the popular Republican governor who looks likely to win the race for retiring Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan's seat, has earned the endorsement of the statewide teachers union, the North Dakota Education Association.

    An election without the economic angst Rachel Dry 2010

  • Last week Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) introduced a bill (S. 2041) that would give Congress the authority to approve the controversial transcontinental Keystone XL pipeline, without the President's approval.

    Rose Marie Berger: The Plot Thickens: Far-Right Group Joins Chorus for Keystone XL Rose Marie Berger 2012

  • According to MapLight, which analyzes industry campaign contributions to members of Congress, one of the top 12 funders supporting Hoeven's bill is the John Birch Society, a conspiracy-minded network that led Red-baiting campaigns in the 1950s, organized against the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and recently has raised its ugly head to crush collective bargaining in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

    Rose Marie Berger: The Plot Thickens: Far-Right Group Joins Chorus for Keystone XL Rose Marie Berger 2012

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