What a difference a debate makes. Doeden goes from calling college a waste of time, to loving our universities.

Toby Doeden is one of those candidates who will just say anything (Especially if it’s written on his hand).  And that was in evidence last night, as he tried to pretend he supports for our State Universities:

At around 1:23:45 in the video from the debate last night (watch the replay here), Doeden claimed…

I love our 4 year State Universities. I attended Northern State…”

Yet, this would seem to be a different opinion than the one he expressed at the beginning of the campaign in an interview with Stu Whitney:

In a household where neither parent attended college, higher education was a goal. Doeden’s three older siblings had all completed college and started careers by the time Toby graduated from high school in 1993.

Feeling outside pressures, he accepted a football and track scholarship to Minot State University in North Dakota, but his heart wasn’t in it.

“I remember unloading my little hatchback car, getting everything moved into my dorm room, and the very night I moved in thinking I should not be here,” Doeden said. “My feeling was, ‘This is an utter waste of time.’”

He qualified for the national track meet as a freshman but had already transferred to Northern State University in Aberdeen, where he lasted about a semester before proposing to Liz and moving to nearby Groton to put business plans in motion.

Read that here.

Telling a reporter that college was an utter waste of time versus his claim last night of “attending” Northern, and claiming to love our 4 year universities seems to be somewhat discordant.

A definition Toby probably would need to add to his hand list.

13 thoughts on “What a difference a debate makes. Doeden goes from calling college a waste of time, to loving our universities.”

  1. Curious if he scrubbed all the “Toby Doeden Unhinged” podcasts as we could swear he slammed college as if he was the example to emulate.

    Business plans from our opinion included a history of stiffing a few folks that did the work, never got paid which Tobes claimed he did.

  2. Was his “Waste of Time “ comment about his life or college in general? Context matters.

    1. We got a good laugh out of that ad as if Toby would even know what to do in an engine compartment or under a vehicle. Toby when you do this campaign ad don’t be afraid when you hear a click when turning this wrench. It is a torque wrench and it is supposed to do that. The tech will show you how to handle it and the direction of where you can put it. ok?

      That’s the point! Tobes in our opinion is and was always a slacker. He avoided work and getting his hands dirty. Always scamming, lying and screwing off.

  3. He was openly criticizing professor social media posts at the beginning of his campaign, so now we are to believe all this…

  4. I think he’s unfamiliar with very basic way things get done. He wants to eliminate property taxes and pave county roads, run snow plows, pay sheriff departments, equip fire departments, maintain county courthouses, secure county jails, and keep property records current with magical thinking? Does he even know the difference between county and state government?

  5. “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

    Toby appears to only have one marketable skill: telling people what they want to hear so he can profit from their gulliblity.

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