Sen. Michael Wobbema - ND District 24
Sen. Michael Wobbema voted in support of pro education/public service policies 29% of the time.
He voted to expand funding and access to childcare for families in North Dakota. NDU supported this position.
Sponsored extracurricular permission bill, HB 1488. NDU opposed this bill.
Sponsored private school voucher bill, HB 1532. NDU opposed this bill.
Sponsored parental rights with lawsuit bill, SB 2260. NDU opposed this bill.
Sponsored book ban with penalty bill, SB 2360. NDU opposed this position.
Sponsored “specified concepts” bill, SB 2247. NDU opposed this position.
When presented with an amendment to the voucher bill, allowing local communities to vote on if their tax dollars should go to private schools, he stated that, “if you open it up to the whole population to a vote on this, you’ve just basically just killed any opportunity of it ever happening.”
Speaking on the Senate floor against free school lunch he stated, ““I’ll be the ogre in the room...yes, I can understand kids going hungry, but is that really the problem of the school district, is that the problem of the state of North Dakota?”
He, along with Senator Janne Myrdal, turned his back during the opening prayer on February 8th.
Voting Record By Bill
SB 2284: K-12 Funding - YES
ND United’s Stance:
HB 1205: Public Library Book Ban - YES
HB 1329: Teacher Licensure - NO
HB 1403: Parental Rights - N/A
HB 1488: Extracurricular Permission - YES
HB 1491: Expand Free School Lunch - NO
HB 1494: End School Lunch Shaming - YES
HB 1526: Parental Rights/Curbing of SEL - N/A
HB 1532: School Vouchers - YES
SB 2032: Para-to-Teacher Program - YES
SB 2260: Parental Rights w/ Lawsuit - YES
SB 2284: K-12 Funding - YES
SB 2354: K-3 Foreign Language Stipend - YES
SB 2360: Book Ban w/ Penalty - YES
SB 2369: Voucher Tax Credit - YES
HB 1040: End NDPERS Pensions - YES
SB 2239: Save NDPERS Pensions - YES
HB 1446: Higher Ed Tenure - YES
SB 2247: Specified Concepts - YES
HB 1540: Delayed Childcare - YES
SB 2301: Original Childcare - YES