AG: North Dakota governor can’t fill dead candidate’s seat

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s attorney general says Gov. Doug Burgum has no authority to appointment a coal company executive to fill a state House seat won by a Republican candidate who died before the election. Burgum announced Wednesday that he was appointing BNI Energy President Wade Boeshans to the seat won Tuesday by David Andahl, who died last month from COVID-19. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says Burgum’s appointment of Boeshans on the day following the elect