Eliot Glassheim kicks off U.S. Senate campaign with a call to act

GRAND FORKS -- “It’s time to move dirt.”

The words from Eliot Glassheim are ones he said he shouted during a Grand Forks City Council meeting when it was fighting the 1997 flood, and it’s an attitude he is ready to take to Washington.

“We cannot kick the can down the road any longer,” he said Thursday at Grand Forks’ Town Square during his official kickoff for his U.S. Senate campaign. “We cannot keep putting off difficult decisions for later days. Too many issues have festered for too long.”

Dozens of supporters cheered on the Grand Forks Democrat, who will face incumbent Republican Sen. John Hoeven in the general election in November.

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