Ken Karls (born July 15, 1947) is a North Dakota political figure who served as the Chairman of the North Dakota Republican Party from 2003 until July 2007. On May 2, 2007 Karls announced that he would not be running for another two years in the job. Karls had been the state Republican chairman for four years, and his successor, Gary Emineth, was chosen at the party's committee meeting in Fargo in July.
Under Karls' tenure as chairman, all of the party's statewide incumbents held their seats, and the party gained the North Dakota State Treasurer's office.
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“Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man’s ken now are but poor- mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and cliché-shouting publicity agents.
Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance,
Ignorance bringing them nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)