Rick Berg, Republican U.S. House candidate

Republican U.S. House candidate Rick Berg has started his nine-day “North Dakota Way” tour that will bring him to Grand Forks on Friday, Sept. 10. He’s challenging nine-term Democratic-NPL incumbent Rep. Earl Pomeroy, who has held the state’s lone office in the U.S. House since 1992.

The tour began Wednesday in Hettinger, N.D., Berg’s hometown, and the candidate was scheduled to be in Bismarck, Washburn and Williston on Thursday.

“There is a Washington way and a North Dakota way, and that is what our campaign is about,” Berg wrote in a Tuesday press release. “Washington has given us nationalized health care, taxpayer-funded bailouts and record deficits. In North Dakota we do things differently. We believe that you don’t spend more than you take in, that medical decisions should be left between individuals and their doctors rather than government bureaucrats, and that we have a responsibility to hand off our country in a better position to our children. I believe that Washington can learn a lot about the way we do things in North Dakota, and that’s why I am running.”

The public and media are invited to attend each stop during the tour, which will bring Berg to cities all over North Dakota. Here is the tour schedule leading up to a Sept. 10 stop in Fargo that will have a grand office opening and barbecue at the Berg campaign headquarters.

• Thursday, September 2: Bismarck, Washburn, Williston
• Friday, September 3: Minot, Dickinson
• Saturday, September 4: Watford City, Alexander
• Monday, September 6: Mooreton, Casselton
• Tuesday, September 7: Jamestown, Bismarck
• Wednesday, September 8: Fargo, Devils Lake, Maddock
• Thursday, September 9: Wahpeton, Valley City, Edgeley
• Friday, September 10: Grand Forks, Fargo