June 23, 2026 • 18 mins
Sheri Haugen-Hoffart PSC, Talking about Highlights from the Campaign and what Summer and Fall look like Going into the General.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, and welcome to Dakota Mornings. I am your host,
Michael Bell kf y R five fifty AM, nine to
nine point seven FM, and I am gratefully joined in
studio this morning by North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sherry
haugen Hofert. Thank you for joining us this morning. I
love the fact that you came in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I enjoy being here and talking to everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, this is great. I congratulations on your primary victory.
I think they called your race at like eight oh
four or something of that nature.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, it was a great night. I was so proud
and thankful for my broad support that I received across
this great state of North Dakota. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And one of those things that I want to get
into this a little bit, you know, the highlight of
the highlights of your campaign were transparency, regulatory certainty some
of the and but what I noted most most effectively
was your desire with with Randy, with Jill not to overregulate,
(01:04):
and that as a as a small government person and
checks and balances on regulators that spoke to me and
spoke to me directly. The desire not to overregulate one
of the things that I find most fascinating about the
regulatory environment here in North Dakota is you guys get it.
You understand that capital follows regulatory certainty and that there
(01:28):
has to be a trust between the regulators and industry.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's correct industry when they no matter where I am
in this state, regionally or nationally, they want regulatory certainty
on what to expect. And I'll tell you our industry
when they file an application with us, they know exactly
what we need in that application to deem it complete
(01:58):
and to move it forward. So North Dakota has great
regulatory certainty on what is needed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We're going to get into you a little bit of
what your campaign looks like, you know, through the fall,
the general election campaign. But I also want to highlight
the importance that you guys place on the value you
place on transparency. If you could tell us a little
bit about the mentality your mentality with regard to transparency,
and then and the Commission's mentality writ large on transparency.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, I believe my campaign message resonated very deeply with
the voters, and I stepped to it. I had two
points on my campaign and I'll move it into the fall.
Is keeping our electricity rates low. We are the lowest
in the nation. We can go back to four years
and coincidentally, I started on the Commission four years ago. Yeah,
(02:57):
but that's very important. But the transparency part of it.
As I have been on the Commission for four years,
one of the things is I know is that people
are inquisitive or they want to understand, but they need
to be informed on what the North Dkota Public Service
(03:20):
Commission does, what we have jurisdiction on, and what we
do not have jurisdiction on, especially when it comes to
public hearings where we go out into the communities where
landowners may be impacted. You know, the locals are impacted.
So out on the campaign and going into the fall
(03:44):
and beyond, one of my goals is to talk about transparency.
And we have an excellent tool that demonstrates the transparency,
which is our website. You can go on there and
you can know what we are doing as far as
upcoming hearings. You can listen to our Commission meetings, you
(04:06):
can go back and review the dockets. You can do
a case search on our website and you can see
everything that we do, everything that we read regarding that
case and read it. So as an agency, we are
very transparent. We notice if two or more of us
(04:28):
are together, we have to follow the rules on noticing.
So the North Dakota Public Service Commission is very transparent.
And please go to our website check it out. You
can see what's coming up. Like this Wednesday, we have
a commission a special meeting. We've changed it from ten
(04:49):
to eleven due to conflicts. We have a special meeting
on Wednesday, and you can go and listen to us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow's year already. You know, as you
campaigned throughout the state, you were very careful in how
you characterized what it is that you guys can deal with,
what it is that you guys can do. You were
really clear in your message. For example, the silliness around
(05:19):
the Public Service Commissioner being able to advocate for and
set up a data center or kill a data center.
These are not things in your purview, nor do you
want them in your purview. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
In fact, I even did an up ad because there
was some indication or frustration against us as a PSC
about a data center. We do not cite data centers
where the Public Service Commission comes into play is if
in the area a substation needs to be upgraded, any
(05:54):
of the energy infrastructure needs a change, you know, like
a transmission line or like I indicated, a substation upgrade.
That's where we have jurisdictional oversight. But the sighting of
a data center is local. That's local we.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And it should be. And that's and and and that's
why I characterize it as silliness that you know, you
had you had folks running for the Public Service Commission
that we're talking about killing data centers in North Dakota,
which is just and not only is it an egregious
misunderstanding of the role of you as a regulator, but
it also a misunderstanding of big government and and and
(06:39):
advocating for that is increasing the size and scope of government.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's correct. I mean, we understand, we hear people. We've
heard it at our public hearings, you know, regarding data centers,
and we tell the individuals who are testifying, we hear you,
but that's not our jurisdiction. So we take the opportunity
to try and inform people on what is in our
(07:07):
jurisdiction and what is not and what's very important again
going back to the transparency. Our role as a Public
Service commissioner is to follow the law. We are not
policy makers.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And you seem to revel in the fact that you're
not policy makers. And that's what makes the Public Service
commission so strong.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Correct, And our job is to review the information, but
to follow the law, nothing more, nothing less. That's what
we have to do is follow the law. And you
know there's some indication as in follow your heart. You know,
(07:53):
we if I review a case and I might not
like it, that has I have to set that aside.
I have to set that bias aside. My job, my
responsibility as your Public Service Commissioner is to follow.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The law and and that application. And one of the
things that I like to highlight is but for the
but for the trust placed by the Public Service Commissioner
in industry and the trust placed by industry in the
Public Service commission. One of the one of the highlights
that I like to make is but for that trust,
(08:30):
we don't have the bakan correct and and and and
that has proven to be an incredibly valuable and important resource,
not only in North Dakota but also throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That that's true, and if we have to look at
things stepping aside. I'm a citizen of North Dakota too,
And what do we need? You know, right now we're
talking about the Bakan crack, the bak and two point zero.
What we need Just think of all the benefits we've
(09:05):
gotten from oil and gas, the revenues and the economic development,
et cetera. And we have to be forward thinkers. And
if we have that regular tory certainty, then we can
have economic development, Then we can have growth, Then we
can have good roads and highways and water water, and
(09:30):
so just think of all the benefits we have when
we have a good economy for this great state.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Amen. And so your campaign centered on very simply what
it is that the North Dakota Public Service Commission does,
what it can do, what it can't do. But also
you highlighted the relationship that you have with your other commissioners.
And I know you talked about the fact that two
(09:58):
of you can't get together any point, But what is
that collegiality.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Like, well, I have I'm going to reference the whole staff. Okay,
you know we have a tremendous staff that you know,
everything that we do from you know, the regulatory looking
at electric rates, looking at citing cases, looking at reclamation measures. Yeah,
(10:27):
and we have a lot of diversity and very educated,
knowledgeable and skilled employees. So we all work together to
move our responsibilities forward every single day. So that collegiality
has to do with trust, respect, and just a heart
(10:50):
of gratitude for the people.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That I work with. I'm glad you characterized it that way.
We need to run to a commercial break. This is
Dakota Morning As I am your host, Michael Bell, kfy
R five AM, not a nine point seven FM. We
are an iHeartMedia production. We are joined in studio this
morning North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sherry hagen Hoefert. She's
on the ballot this November and we are going to
get a little bit more into it. And we come
(11:13):
back from this short commercial break. Welcome back to you
Dakota Mornings. I am your host, Michael Bell. We are
joined in studio by Sherry algen Hoefert, North Dakota Public
Service Commissioner. Pretty pretty dominating primary election night. Now on
to the general What is your what is your message?
Continuation of your message now that you're going on to
(11:35):
the general election.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, my message is going to be the same. I'm
going to be consistent with it, keeping our electric rates
low and transparency. I know that my campaign message resonated
very well with the voters out there due to my
victory in the primary, but it's just to inform them.
(12:01):
My message is consistent low electric rates and transparency.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Lowest electricity rates in the United States. That doesn't happen
by accident.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's correct. It's good oversight.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And regular oversight, and and the and then I want
to go back again to the transparency aspect of it.
You know, the general public can read everything, including submissions
by industry, by companies for the docket. They can read
through all the material that you have access to, and
(12:36):
that level of transparency I think is really really important
because they have access to everything you have access to. Now,
there are some there are some trade yeah, exactly, they
need to be held back and should be held back
in an appropriate manner. But having the ability to go
through and review every rate case that, for example, that
(12:57):
you guys deal with or I'm sorry that not great case,
but every citing case that you guys deal with is
really important.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's correct, And we really want the public to know.
Number one that we are a transparent agency. Number two,
we are accessible our staff. If we have an open case,
you cannot talk to the commissioner about it. There can
be no X party communication. But our staff is well
informed and available to talk to people about the case
(13:28):
and to talk about our jurisdiction. I couldn't be more proud.
I know. Just yesterday I refer to people onto two
of our staff immediately responded and I got a message back,
thank you for being so available.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, and that goes to the accessibility which you just mentioned.
You and Randy and Jill and your great staff are
all incredibly accessible, which is a mark of state wide
elective officials here in North Dakota. To be sure, but
that accessibility means that you know, if somebody wants to
send you an email citing why they think that your
(14:05):
position is wrong, your your email address is public.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
That's correct. If you go out onto our website, you
can see all of us commissioners are bio and our
contact information and so email.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do you get a lot of email of for example,
from constituents here in North Dakota, Do you get a
lot of interaction? I know you get a charge out
of that when you're doing parades and things like that,
but do you get much interaction from that From that perspective.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Once we have a case, they don't. They cannot communicate
with us via email or telephone or in person. So
they do talk with the staff, and the public is
very good about that, very good about that. We have
our consumer Affairs department, so when they call in, they
usually talk with our staff and they voice their concern
(15:00):
or what they want us to know, and that that
goes into our record. So we as commissioners could read
it like if we have a rad case and people
call in and say they don't they don't want this
RAD case, and why I have read every comment from
the public on what their opinion is on a case.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I think it's really good to highlight that because you know,
in many circumstances, people that call into the show, people
that communicate with you, people that communicate with their county commissioner,
their legislator, they want to be heard, they want their
voice heard, and it's really important that you're acknowledging right
up front you read every comment.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yes, I can say with certainty that I have read
every comment.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That calls well, yeah, but you know what I have
to say that people have.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Been very respectful to us, and I appreciate that they
You it key on. People want to be hurt, so
we listen to them and then we explain that, especially
if it's not our jurisdiction to say that we hear you,
but this is not our jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Sure, and it's important to highlight when it's not. And
I'm sure that part of that is directing that, putting that,
pushing them in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So one of the things we talked about when we
were on break here is how much fun you had
on the campaign trail, especially your the delivering results for
North Cotain's I you know, watching it from Afar, I
appreciated that. I appreciated the concept of it. I appreciated
how you guys delivered on it. How much fun was that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, it's always a great time. I enjoyed being out
on the campaign trail with my fellow Republicans out there campaigning.
But the most fun I have is going out into
the communities and meeting people, learning about their town, what's
(17:06):
important to them, talking to them and just really engaging
and hopefully gaining their trust so they'll support me in November.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, and one of the things you want to highlight
is you are a rare commodity and that you really
like parades.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, it's a good time to get out there, you know,
to see the little kids and you know, and who doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like giving away candy? I mean, let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well yeah, and when they're so polite and say thank you.
But I really like going to the voters and meeting
them and talking to them. And I have to say,
on the last parade, someone said, well, who's Shary. I
happen to hear that, and I said, I'm Sherry, Nice
to meet you, and went over there and met them
and just had a good time.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, and it goes to the accessibility of North Dakota
elected officials, especially the state wide elective officials. And when
you're as accessible as someone like you is, it's really
difficult to subsume or assume that you're you know, operating
and not in good faith. I mean, I've taken you
at your word going back years, and I appreciate that
(18:17):
your word is your bond.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Absolutely what you see is what you get. You know,
I'm human, I'm not perfect and never claimed to be.
But I have a good time and I love my
job and I love serving the citizens of North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sheery hagen Hoefer, thank you
so much for joining us this morning on Dakota Mornings.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Have you seen the Dakota Mornings. I am your host,
Michael Bell kfy R five fifty AM, ben A nine
point seven FM, and we will be back after this
short commercial break.
Good morning, and welcome to Dakota Mornings. I am your host,
Michael Bell kf y R five fifty AM, nine to
nine point seven FM, and I am gratefully joined in
studio this morning by North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sherry
haugen Hofert. Thank you for joining us this morning. I
love the fact that you came in studio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I enjoy being here and talking to everyone.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yeah, this is great. I congratulations on your primary victory.
I think they called your race at like eight oh
four or something of that nature.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, it was a great night. I was so proud
and thankful for my broad support that I received across
this great state of North Dakota. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And one of those things that I want to get
into this a little bit, you know, the highlight of
the highlights of your campaign were transparency, regulatory certainty some
of the and but what I noted most most effectively
was your desire with with Randy, with Jill not to overregulate,
(01:04):
and that as a as a small government person and
checks and balances on regulators that spoke to me and
spoke to me directly. The desire not to overregulate one
of the things that I find most fascinating about the
regulatory environment here in North Dakota is you guys get it.
You understand that capital follows regulatory certainty and that there
(01:28):
has to be a trust between the regulators and industry.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's correct industry when they no matter where I am
in this state, regionally or nationally, they want regulatory certainty
on what to expect. And I'll tell you our industry
when they file an application with us, they know exactly
what we need in that application to deem it complete
(01:58):
and to move it forward. So North Dakota has great
regulatory certainty on what is needed.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
We're going to get into you a little bit of
what your campaign looks like, you know, through the fall,
the general election campaign. But I also want to highlight
the importance that you guys place on the value you
place on transparency. If you could tell us a little
bit about the mentality your mentality with regard to transparency,
and then and the Commission's mentality writ large on transparency.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, I believe my campaign message resonated very deeply with
the voters, and I stepped to it. I had two
points on my campaign and I'll move it into the fall.
Is keeping our electricity rates low. We are the lowest
in the nation. We can go back to four years
and coincidentally, I started on the Commission four years ago. Yeah,
(02:57):
but that's very important. But the transparency part of it.
As I have been on the Commission for four years,
one of the things is I know is that people
are inquisitive or they want to understand, but they need
to be informed on what the North Dkota Public Service
(03:20):
Commission does, what we have jurisdiction on, and what we
do not have jurisdiction on, especially when it comes to
public hearings where we go out into the communities where
landowners may be impacted. You know, the locals are impacted.
So out on the campaign and going into the fall
(03:44):
and beyond, one of my goals is to talk about transparency.
And we have an excellent tool that demonstrates the transparency,
which is our website. You can go on there and
you can know what we are doing as far as
upcoming hearings. You can listen to our Commission meetings, you
(04:06):
can go back and review the dockets. You can do
a case search on our website and you can see
everything that we do, everything that we read regarding that
case and read it. So as an agency, we are
very transparent. We notice if two or more of us
(04:28):
are together, we have to follow the rules on noticing.
So the North Dakota Public Service Commission is very transparent.
And please go to our website check it out. You
can see what's coming up. Like this Wednesday, we have
a commission a special meeting. We've changed it from ten
(04:49):
to eleven due to conflicts. We have a special meeting
on Wednesday, and you can go and listen to us tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yes, tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow's year already. You know, as you
campaigned throughout the state, you were very careful in how
you characterized what it is that you guys can deal with,
what it is that you guys can do. You were
really clear in your message. For example, the silliness around
(05:19):
the Public Service Commissioner being able to advocate for and
set up a data center or kill a data center.
These are not things in your purview, nor do you
want them in your purview. That's correct.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
In fact, I even did an up ad because there
was some indication or frustration against us as a PSC
about a data center. We do not cite data centers
where the Public Service Commission comes into play is if
in the area a substation needs to be upgraded, any
(05:54):
of the energy infrastructure needs a change, you know, like
a transmission line or like I indicated, a substation upgrade.
That's where we have jurisdictional oversight. But the sighting of
a data center is local. That's local we.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And it should be. And that's and and and that's
why I characterize it as silliness that you know, you
had you had folks running for the Public Service Commission
that we're talking about killing data centers in North Dakota,
which is just and not only is it an egregious
misunderstanding of the role of you as a regulator, but
it also a misunderstanding of big government and and and
(06:39):
advocating for that is increasing the size and scope of government.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That's correct. I mean, we understand, we hear people. We've
heard it at our public hearings, you know, regarding data centers,
and we tell the individuals who are testifying, we hear you,
but that's not our jurisdiction. So we take the opportunity
to try and inform people on what is in our
(07:07):
jurisdiction and what is not and what's very important again
going back to the transparency. Our role as a Public
Service commissioner is to follow the law. We are not
policy makers.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
And you seem to revel in the fact that you're
not policy makers. And that's what makes the Public Service
commission so strong.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Correct, And our job is to review the information, but
to follow the law, nothing more, nothing less. That's what
we have to do is follow the law. And you
know there's some indication as in follow your heart. You know,
(07:53):
we if I review a case and I might not
like it, that has I have to set that aside.
I have to set that bias aside. My job, my
responsibility as your Public Service Commissioner is to follow.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
The law and and that application. And one of the
things that I like to highlight is but for the
but for the trust placed by the Public Service Commissioner
in industry and the trust placed by industry in the
Public Service commission. One of the one of the highlights
that I like to make is but for that trust,
(08:30):
we don't have the bakan correct and and and and
that has proven to be an incredibly valuable and important resource,
not only in North Dakota but also throughout the country.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That that's true, and if we have to look at
things stepping aside. I'm a citizen of North Dakota too,
And what do we need? You know, right now we're
talking about the Bakan crack, the bak and two point zero.
What we need Just think of all the benefits we've
(09:05):
gotten from oil and gas, the revenues and the economic development,
et cetera. And we have to be forward thinkers. And
if we have that regular tory certainty, then we can
have economic development, Then we can have growth, Then we
can have good roads and highways and water water, and
(09:30):
so just think of all the benefits we have when
we have a good economy for this great state.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Amen. And so your campaign centered on very simply what
it is that the North Dakota Public Service Commission does,
what it can do, what it can't do. But also
you highlighted the relationship that you have with your other commissioners.
And I know you talked about the fact that two
(09:58):
of you can't get together any point, But what is
that collegiality.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Like, well, I have I'm going to reference the whole staff. Okay,
you know we have a tremendous staff that you know,
everything that we do from you know, the regulatory looking
at electric rates, looking at citing cases, looking at reclamation measures. Yeah,
(10:27):
and we have a lot of diversity and very educated,
knowledgeable and skilled employees. So we all work together to
move our responsibilities forward every single day. So that collegiality
has to do with trust, respect, and just a heart
(10:50):
of gratitude for the people.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That I work with. I'm glad you characterized it that way.
We need to run to a commercial break. This is
Dakota Morning As I am your host, Michael Bell, kfy
R five AM, not a nine point seven FM. We
are an iHeartMedia production. We are joined in studio this
morning North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sherry hagen Hoefert. She's
on the ballot this November and we are going to
get a little bit more into it. And we come
(11:13):
back from this short commercial break. Welcome back to you
Dakota Mornings. I am your host, Michael Bell. We are
joined in studio by Sherry algen Hoefert, North Dakota Public
Service Commissioner. Pretty pretty dominating primary election night. Now on
to the general What is your what is your message?
Continuation of your message now that you're going on to
(11:35):
the general election.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Well, my message is going to be the same. I'm
going to be consistent with it, keeping our electric rates
low and transparency. I know that my campaign message resonated
very well with the voters out there due to my
victory in the primary, but it's just to inform them.
(12:01):
My message is consistent low electric rates and transparency.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Lowest electricity rates in the United States. That doesn't happen
by accident.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's correct. It's good oversight.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And regular oversight, and and the and then I want
to go back again to the transparency aspect of it.
You know, the general public can read everything, including submissions
by industry, by companies for the docket. They can read
through all the material that you have access to, and
(12:36):
that level of transparency I think is really really important
because they have access to everything you have access to. Now,
there are some there are some trade yeah, exactly, they
need to be held back and should be held back
in an appropriate manner. But having the ability to go
through and review every rate case that, for example, that
(12:57):
you guys deal with or I'm sorry that not great case,
but every citing case that you guys deal with is
really important.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's correct, And we really want the public to know.
Number one that we are a transparent agency. Number two,
we are accessible our staff. If we have an open case,
you cannot talk to the commissioner about it. There can
be no X party communication. But our staff is well
informed and available to talk to people about the case
(13:28):
and to talk about our jurisdiction. I couldn't be more proud.
I know. Just yesterday I refer to people onto two
of our staff immediately responded and I got a message back,
thank you for being so available.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Yeah, and that goes to the accessibility which you just mentioned.
You and Randy and Jill and your great staff are
all incredibly accessible, which is a mark of state wide
elective officials here in North Dakota. To be sure, but
that accessibility means that you know, if somebody wants to
send you an email citing why they think that your
(14:05):
position is wrong, your your email address is public.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
That's correct. If you go out onto our website, you
can see all of us commissioners are bio and our
contact information and so email.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Do you get a lot of email of for example,
from constituents here in North Dakota, Do you get a
lot of interaction? I know you get a charge out
of that when you're doing parades and things like that,
but do you get much interaction from that From that perspective.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Once we have a case, they don't. They cannot communicate
with us via email or telephone or in person. So
they do talk with the staff, and the public is
very good about that, very good about that. We have
our consumer Affairs department, so when they call in, they
usually talk with our staff and they voice their concern
(15:00):
or what they want us to know, and that that
goes into our record. So we as commissioners could read
it like if we have a rad case and people
call in and say they don't they don't want this
RAD case, and why I have read every comment from
the public on what their opinion is on a case.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I think it's really good to highlight that because you know,
in many circumstances, people that call into the show, people
that communicate with you, people that communicate with their county commissioner,
their legislator, they want to be heard, they want their
voice heard, and it's really important that you're acknowledging right
up front you read every comment.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yes, I can say with certainty that I have read
every comment.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
That calls well, yeah, but you know what I have
to say that people have.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Been very respectful to us, and I appreciate that they
You it key on. People want to be hurt, so
we listen to them and then we explain that, especially
if it's not our jurisdiction to say that we hear you,
but this is not our jurisdiction.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Sure, and it's important to highlight when it's not. And
I'm sure that part of that is directing that, putting that,
pushing them in the right direction.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Correct. Correct.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
So one of the things we talked about when we
were on break here is how much fun you had
on the campaign trail, especially your the delivering results for
North Cotain's I you know, watching it from Afar, I
appreciated that. I appreciated the concept of it. I appreciated
how you guys delivered on it. How much fun was that?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, it's always a great time. I enjoyed being out
on the campaign trail with my fellow Republicans out there campaigning.
But the most fun I have is going out into
the communities and meeting people, learning about their town, what's
(17:06):
important to them, talking to them and just really engaging
and hopefully gaining their trust so they'll support me in November.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, and one of the things you want to highlight
is you are a rare commodity and that you really
like parades.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Well, it's a good time to get out there, you know,
to see the little kids and you know, and who doesn't.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Like giving away candy? I mean, let's be clear.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well yeah, and when they're so polite and say thank you.
But I really like going to the voters and meeting
them and talking to them. And I have to say,
on the last parade, someone said, well, who's Shary. I
happen to hear that, and I said, I'm Sherry, Nice
to meet you, and went over there and met them
and just had a good time.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Well, and it goes to the accessibility of North Dakota
elected officials, especially the state wide elective officials. And when
you're as accessible as someone like you is, it's really
difficult to subsume or assume that you're you know, operating
and not in good faith. I mean, I've taken you
at your word going back years, and I appreciate that
(18:17):
your word is your bond.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Absolutely what you see is what you get. You know,
I'm human, I'm not perfect and never claimed to be.
But I have a good time and I love my
job and I love serving the citizens of North Dakota.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Sheery hagen Hoefer, thank you
so much for joining us this morning on Dakota Mornings.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Have you seen the Dakota Mornings. I am your host,
Michael Bell kfy R five fifty AM, ben A nine
point seven FM, and we will be back after this
short commercial break.
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