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Resigning North Dakota senator led lawmakers in travel costs – KNBN NewsCenter1
FILE – North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg listens throughout a joint Home and Senate Appropriations Committee assembly on the Capitol in Bismarck, N.D., on Jan. 7, 2009. Holmberg, North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator introduced Monday, April 25, 2022, that he would resign following a report that he had traded scores of textual content messages with a person jailed on youngster pornography prices. (AP Photograph/Will Kincaid, File)
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota state senator who’s resigning following a report about textual content messages he exchanged with an inmate ran up journey bills the previous decade which might be greater than 14 instances what lawmakers invoice state taxpayers on common.
Journey information reviewed by The Related Press present Republican Ray Holmberg has made taxpayer-funded journeys to 4 dozen U.S. cities, China, Canada and a number of other international locations in Europe.
He was reimbursed about $126,000 for practically 70 journeys, all out of state, over the previous decade.
Holmberg, who turned one of many state’s strongest lawmakers in a profession that spanned 46 years, introduced this month that he would resign June 1 following a report that he had traded scores of textual content messages with a person jailed on youngster pornography prices.