MINOT -- Gov.-elect Kelly Armstrong, fresh off a landslide victory on the statewide ballot, is coming in hot. He's still got a term in Congress to finish out -- he has said he will resign shortly before midnight Dec. 14, the day before he's sworn in as governor -- but he has big plans for his time in Bismarck.

"I don't give platitudes," he told Chad Oban and me on this episode of Plain Talk.

Armstrong campaigned on property tax reform. He opposed Measure 4 -- he said in a previous Plain Talk interview that he hated the proposal -- but he also isn't a fan of what the Legislature has been doing to address the issue in previous sessions, which has amounted transferring local spending into the state budget.

"Don't send me another buy down without significant reform," he told us. "It hasn't worked in the past. It's not going to work going forward."

He also talked about his philosophy when it comes to staffing his new administration. "I have a small law firm mentality for how I operate," he said (Armstrong practiced as an attorney before his political career). "I hire smart people and empower them to make decisions."

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