Petition To Change Sunday Shopping Laws In North Dakota Comes Up Short

Group Changes Tactics And Will Push For Legislation To Remove Blue Laws

FARGO, ND — A petition drive to change North Dakota’s Sunday shopping laws has come up very short.

The man behind the petition, Fargo businessman and now political candidate Brandon Medenwald, says only about 5-thousand of the more than 13-thousand signatures needed were collected.

Medenwald will now focus on pushing for reintroduction of a bill next year to remove the so-called blue laws that ban retail shopping before noon on Sundays.

The Republican-led Legislature has defeated several measures to end the ban over the years.

Medenwald is now a Democratic candidate for a House seat.