Republican legislators in Bismarck's District 35 will be faced by a young challenger.
Ryan Gustafson, 22, will formally announce Tuesday that he plans on seeking the Democratic nomination to run for a seat in the House in that district.
He is currently employed as the communications director for the North Dakota Progressive Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group.
Gustafson moved to Bismarck in 1999. He graduated from Bismarck High School in 2001 and from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
Gustafson is hosting an event at the Democratic Party state headquarters, located at 1902 E. Divide Ave., where he will formally announce his candidacy. The event will take place at 7 p.m.
He is inviting residents of District 35, which covers central Bismarck, to attend the event.
The incumbents in District 35 are Sen. Ed Kringstad and Reps. Bob Martinson and Margaret Sitte, all Republicans.
SA readers will know Mr. Gustafson as frequent commenter (and the person responsible for the Flickertail Journal) Ryan G, famous for accusing U.S. troops of using weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and other far-left, moonbat crazy talk.
Oddly enough, just as he announced his candidacy, all of the posts on his blog have diappeared. The given reason is "template redesign," which is laughable. Its clear that it disappeared so as to keep his nuttier sentiments swept under the rug.
I guarantee that if his blog does come back online it will be missing posts. Like the one where he accused our troops of using WMD's against the enemy in Iraq and the one where he accused Republcians of wanting kids to starve after they passed federal spending reductions.
Update:
Ryan's blog archives may be gone, but Google Cache doesn't forget. Here are PDF printouts of his archives from August 2005 (when he started) to December 2005. Can't go any earlier than December 29th as Google doesn't have those in cache.
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005