North Dakota Gov. Defends His ‘Sacred’ Radar Detector
Gov. George Sinner is taking some heat from legislators for a radar detector in his truck.
But he shrugged off the complaints by state Sens. Bryce Streibel and L. L. Naaden, saying: “They have all these big issues to deal with. They worry about those things, not budgets.”
The two Republicans, frequent critics of the Democratic governor, noticed the detector on the dashboard of Sinner’s truck when they visited the Capitol last week.
“That’s a heck of an example to set,” Streibel said. “You’ve got a fuzzbuster in your car for one reason, and that’s to evade the law.”
Radar detectors are legal in North Dakota.
Asked if it was hypocritical of him to use a radar detector, the governor replied: “There might be just a smidgen of that.”
Still, Sinner said, it has sentimental value to him because it was a gift from his children seven years ago when he was running his first campaign for governor. “It’s sort of a sacred, emotional thing,” Sinner said.
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