{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-cramer-statement-minot-afb-leaders-were-wrong-to-dissuade-servicemembers-from-politically-conservative-rally", "Senator Cramer Statement: Minot AFB Leaders Were Wrong to Dissuade Servicemembers from Politically Conservative Rally", "2023-11-21", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "Kevin Cramer", "C001096", "www.cramer.senate.gov", "cramer", "https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "***Click here to download audio.***\n\nBISMARCK \u2014 U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), issued the following statement after Minot Air Force Base leadership sent a message to servicemembers warning them of the dangers associated with being near the Dakota Patriot Rally held at the state fairgrounds in Minot.\n\nThe message warned that \u201cparticipation with groups such as Turning Point Action could jeopardize their continued service in the U.S. military.\u201d\n\n\u201cFirst of all, if somebody disguised as a \u2018leader\u2019 at Minot Air Force Base actually put out this hyper partisan left wing political message, they need to rescind it immediately. They need to apologize for it profusely and then they need to encourage the airmen at Minot Air Force Base who are inclined to attend a conservative, traditional American values rally to do exactly that and bring a friend. Then that leader, the so-called leader needs to be removed from their position.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, these left wing political messages are way too common in our military these days, and that needs to be stopped. We need to get our military focused on what they\u2019re supposed to be doing, and that is their own mission. They all have a collective mission and individual missions. At Minot, they just happen to carry the heavy burden, responsibility, and great honor of having two of the three legs of the nuclear triad. In other words, they are as responsible, if not more responsible than anybody in the world for deterring our enemies: the enemies of freedom, the enemies of America, and the enemies of America\u2019s allies. We need them to get focused on that and get off of the DEI woke nonsense that\u2019s infiltrated our military, and now infiltrated North Dakota. Let\u2019s get to the mission.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-cramer-statement-minot-afb-leaders-were-wrong-to-dissuade-servicemembers-from-politically-conservative-rally"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4427411369979382, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}