Karen Rohr

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Karen Rohr
Image of Karen Rohr
North Dakota House of Representatives District 31
Tenure

2010 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

14

Compensation

Base salary

$592/month

Per diem

$213/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

University of Mary

Graduate

University of Mary

Ph.D

University of North Dakota

Personal
Profession
Nurse practitioner
Contact

Karen Rohr (Republican Party) is a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, representing District 31. She assumed office on December 1, 2010. Her current term ends on December 1, 2026.

Rohr (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the North Dakota House of Representatives to represent District 31. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Biography

Rohr earned her B.S. in nursing from the University of Mary, her M.S. in nursing and nursing administration from the University of Mary and her Ph.D. in Nursing Research from the University of North Dakota. Her professional experience includes working as a nurse practitioner, as a project coordinator and as the Bioethics and Clinical Research Director at Medcenter One.[1]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Rohr was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Rohr was assigned to the following committees:

2019-2020

Rohr was assigned to the following committees:

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

North Dakota committee assignments, 2017
Government and Veterans Affairs
Human Services, Vice chair

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Rohr served on the following committees:

2013-2014

In the 2013-2014 legislative session, Rohr served on the following committees:

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Rohr served on the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2022

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Incumbent Karen Rohr and Dawson Holle defeated Mike Faith in the general election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Karen Rohr
Karen Rohr (R)
 
42.0
 
3,374
Image of Dawson Holle
Dawson Holle (R) Candidate Connection
 
40.6
 
3,264
Image of Mike Faith
Mike Faith (D)
 
16.9
 
1,360
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
33

Total votes: 8,031
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Mike Faith advanced from the Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on June 14, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Mike Faith
Mike Faith
 
96.8
 
299
 Other/Write-in votes
 
3.2
 
10

Total votes: 309
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Dawson Holle and incumbent Karen Rohr defeated incumbent James Schmidt in the Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on June 14, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Dawson Holle
Dawson Holle Candidate Connection
 
33.9
 
1,055
Image of Karen Rohr
Karen Rohr
 
33.8
 
1,049
Image of James Schmidt
James Schmidt
 
32.1
 
997
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
7

Total votes: 3,108
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2018

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2018

General election

General election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Incumbent Karen Rohr and incumbent James Schmidt won election in the general election for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Karen Rohr
Karen Rohr (R)
 
49.1
 
4,578
Image of James Schmidt
James Schmidt (R)
 
48.8
 
4,547
 Other/Write-in votes
 
2.1
 
191

Total votes: 9,316
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Joshua Johnson advanced from the Democratic primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on June 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Joshua Johnson
 
100.0
 
525

Total votes: 525
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 (2 seats)

Incumbent Karen Rohr and incumbent James Schmidt advanced from the Republican primary for North Dakota House of Representatives District 31 on June 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Karen Rohr
Karen Rohr
 
51.0
 
1,159
Image of James Schmidt
James Schmidt
 
49.0
 
1,115

Total votes: 2,274
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2014

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2014

Elections for the North Dakota House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 10, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was April 7, 2014. Incumbent James Schmidt and incumbent Karen Rohr were unopposed in the Republican primary, while LaDonna Allard and Mike Faith were unopposed in the Democratic primary. Schmidt and Rohr defeated Allard and Faith in the general election.[2][3][4]

North Dakota House of Representatives, District 31, General Election, 2014
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngKaren Rohr Incumbent 34.4% 3,396
     Republican Green check mark transparent.pngJames Schmidt Incumbent 33.3% 3,280
     Democratic Mike Faith 16.8% 1,661
     Democratic LaDonna Allard 15.4% 1,523
Total Votes 9,860

2010

See also: North Dakota House of Representatives elections, 2010

Rohr won election to the North Dakota House of Representatives in the November 2 general election. Rohr and James Schmidt (R) defeated incumbent James Kerzman (D) and Chad Harrison (D).[5][6]

North Dakota State House, District 31
Candidates Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Karen Rohr (R) 2,523
Green check mark transparent.png James Schmidt (R) 2,434
James Kerzman (D) 1,967
Chad Harrison (D) 1,578

Campaign themes

2022

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Campaign finance summary


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Karen Rohr campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2022North Dakota House of Representatives District 31Won general$13,775 $0
2018North Dakota House of Representatives District 31Won general$7,150 N/A**
2014North Dakota State House, District 31Won $5,150 N/A**
2010North Dakota State House, District 31Won $2,892 N/A**
Grand total$28,967 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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2011

NDPC: North Dakota Legislative Review

See also: North Dakota Policy Council Legislative Review (2011)

The North Dakota Policy Council, a North Dakota-based nonprofit research organization which describes itself as "liberty-based", published the North Dakota Legislative Review, a comprehensive report on how state legislators voted during the 2011 legislative session. The scorecard seeks to show how North Dakota legislators voted on the principles the Council seeks to promote. The Council recorded and scored votes on both spending bills and policy bills, and awarded points accordingly. Policy issues voted upon included income tax cuts, pension reform, and government transparency. On spending legislation, the Council accorded a percentage score based on how much spending the legislator voted against. On policy legislation, scores range from the highest score (100%) to the lowest (0%). A higher score indicates that the legislator voted more in favor of the values supported by the Council.[8] Rohr received a score of 77.78% on policy legislation and voted against 41.44% of state spending. Rohr was ranked 17th on policy and 4th on spending, out of 94 House members evaluated for the study.[9]

Noteworthy events

Law enforcement drones

On January 21, 2013, Rohr, fellow Representatives Rick Becker, Dick Anderson, Thomas Beadle, Joe Heilman, Curt Hofstad, David Monson, Nathan Toman and Ben Hanson, and Senator Margaret Sitte introduced HB 1373 to restrict the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) by law enforcement agencies. This bill would have required agencies to receive a court warrant for any drone use, and such warrants would have only be obtainable for felony investigations. Exceptions would be made for drones used to patrol the Canadian border, aid law enforcement agencies where there is "reasonable suspicion" that quick action is necessary and evaluate damage during and after natural disasters. HB 1373 would have also allowed people injured by governmental violation of these restrictions to sue the offending law enforcement agencies. The bill would have expressly prohibited surveillance by drones with lethal or non-lethal weapons, private surveillance of other private parties without informed consent and surveillance of people exercising their constitutional rights of free speech and assembly.[10][11] On January 28, the Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the bill.[12] The bill passed the House of Representatives on February 22 and was sent to the state Senate. The bill died in the state Senate.[13]

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