Jim Long for ND Senate

Current News

Jim has been prominently covered speaking out against corruption he observed at North Dakota's embattled Workforce Safety and Insurance. Some of the coverage has even achieved a national audience with articles in major insurance industry magazines.

Read some of the coverage in the media below.

  • Workers comp meetings checked

    June 19, 2008

    Bismarck Tribune Article

    A former state Workforce Safety and Insurance executive says he walked in on an illegal meeting of agency board members in a restaurant, and he has asked Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to investigate.

    "They are breaking the sunshine laws. This is why we're in the problem that we're in," said Jim Long,"

  • Atty gen checking ND workers comp meetings

    June 18, 2008

     

    Williston Herald Article

    "A former state Workforce Safety and Insurance executive says he walked in on an illegal meeting of agency board members in a restaurant, and he has asked Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem to investigate.

    Bruce Furness, Workforce Safety's interim chief executive, said Wednesday any violation of North Dakota's open meetings law was accidental.

    Long said he was told of the meeting early that evening and went to the restaurant to see for himself. He said he was dubious of Furness' explanation that the appearance of several board members was inadvertent.

    "They had a huge table set up, and they were obviously doing business," Long said. "They had a quorum (of committee members) there, and they were talking shop."

  • N.D. AG checks into alleged WSI open-meeting law violations

    June 18, 2008

    Grand Forks Herald Article

    "The attorney general’s office is investigating complaints that two committees of the Workforce Safety and Insurance Board may have violated the state open meeting law in the past month...Jim Long asked Stenehjem to investigate. Long’s letter said a phone call alerted him the evening of May 21 that a quorum of the board’s Audit Committee was meeting in the East 40. He went to the restaurant to see for himself."

  • AG is checking into two alleged illegal WSI meetings

    June 18, 2008

    Dickinson Press

    "In both cases, the committees have three members. Consequently, any time two members correspond, call or are in the same place together, it constitutes a meeting for which the public must be notified in advance. The meetings were May 21 and June 10...Fired WSI employee Jim Long asked Stenehjem to investigate."

  • Charges won't be sought in WSI whistleblower case

    April 22, 2008

    Bismarck Tribune Article

    "The attorney general and the Republican administration have successfully buried any official inquiry into wrongdoing at WSI for more than half a year," Tuntland said in an e-mail. "It is now obvious that there will be absolutely no investigation into the wrongdoing at WSI as long as the current administration remains in power."

    Read Jim's response here.