Chuck Haga; Grand Forks Herald ---- Sen. Tim Mathern, D-Fargo, said today that he has a bill ready for the November special session of the Legislature that would repeal the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux nickname law adopted earlier this year.
"No muss, no fuss - just overturn what we did in the past legislative session," he said. "It would be the cleanest, simplest way to get back to the process that was already decided upon and in place wherein the Board of Higher Education and the University of North Dakota had made some decisions."
Repeal would take effect on Dec. 1, according to the bill draft filed with the Legislative Council. Mathern, who was first elected to the Senate in 1986 and was the Democrats' candidate for governor in 2008, said repeal would remove "the question of constitutionality that came with the Legislature intervening
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tim Mathern has bill to repeal UND Fighting Sioux nickname law
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