Corn Palace as political effigy—imagine the possibilities....
South Dakota's U.S. Senate race has turned into the Corn Palace: so weird, so unlikely, folks from out of state just have to come and look.
Today, that funny-looking corn dome off to the right, Gordon Howie, gets some national press. The apocalypse is nigh.
Bloomberg's David Weigel sat down for coffee with the Independent/Republican rebel in the U.S. Senate race and got this juicy morsel: Howie claims Republicans may be offering him carrots to get out of the race:
"There are high level GOP operatives, in and out of the state, who have tried to negotiate me out of this race," Howie told me. "They approached me as recently as last week."
He would not name the operatives; he would only rephrase what they asked him. "There were no hard offers," he said. "The question was more of a what-if: 'Well, what if you dropped out?' And I said, 'You can take these proposals and throw them in the Missouri river'" [David Weigel, "The Other Guy Ruining the GOP's Chances in South Dakota," Bloomberg, 2014.10.14].
Ah, there's no buying our friend Gordon, especially not when he smells his big break-out opportunity just one EB-5 blog post away:
According to Howie, Republicans in and out of office had been whispering that they supported him but didn't want to come out and say so. They would only come out, he suggested, if and when Rounds imploded.
"The ice is very thin, and shaking," he said. "This was Rounds's race to lose, and he's losing it. If he’s contradicted on the EB-5 story, by a document, just one more time, I think the ice breaks under him" [Weigel, 2014.10.14].
Hmm... one more good blog post with one more document showing one more Mike Rounds lie, and Gordon Howie becomes Senator? Do I dare?