Chris Nelson Endorses Krebs for Secretary of State
The fight for the SDGOP nomination for Secretary of State may be more interesting than the primary battle for the Senate nomination. Just when I thought Assistant Secretary Patricia Miller's...
View ArticleRepublicans Acquire Howie Petition — Challenge Afoot!
Bob Ellis gets away from his usual talk-radio karaoke and breaks some honest-to-Gaia news on Republicans getting ready to play hardball with Independent U.S. Senate candidate Gordon Howie....
View ArticleRepublican Legislators Plan to Raid Public Coffers for ALEC Dues Again
Remember how last year the Republican leaders of the South Dakota Legislature decided to spend your money on their dues for the corporate fascist lobbying group ALEC? GOP spinners blew some smoke about...
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ACA Makes Medicare Better; Rounds Can’t Win on ObamaCare Fears
Mike and Don Rounds, two rich men losing no sleep over health insurance. Marion Michael Rounds will lose an ACA-Medicare debate to Rick Weiland. His "ObamaCare robs Medicare" scare ad is a lie four...
View ArticleConservatives Already Dominate GOP; Wingnuts Wage Endless War on Country Club
In an RCJ article on Bill Napoli's West River Wingnut insurgency, the esteemed Professor Jon Schaff gets us wondering just what RINOs the hard right is hunting: Schaff added that it was difficult to...
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As Rounds Coasts, Best Reasons to Vote for Each of the GOP Senate Candidates
I like dramatic elections. Alas, The Displaced Plainsman anticipates no drama in Tuesday's GOP Senate primary. Neither does Bob Mercer, who has upped his estimate of frontrunner Marion Michael Rounds's...
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Grifters Plague GOP: Tea Party Co-Opted by Profiteers
The Tea Party in South Dakota hasn't had much success at the ballot box. In this year's Republican primary, neither Lora Hubbel nor Stace Nelson, the candidates around whom South Dakota's...
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South Dakota Republican Platform in Eight Simple Planks
I don't usually find much value in anonymous comments. However, one unknown reader responds to Pat Powers's lazy press-release blogging by saving the South Dakota Republican Party Platform Committee a...
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GOP on Sidelines While Judges, President, Pressler, Weiland Promote Marriage...
My Republican neighbors like to complain about "activist judges" and President Obama's executive orders. But when it comes to gay rights, these conservative complainers should take a chill pill. By...
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SDGOP Will Impeach Obama But Won’t Fight Common Core; Pick Krebs for SOS
Pat Powers must have found the South Dakota Republican Convention really boring. After touting his supposedly riveting on-site coverage, Powers couldn't find much more interesting to post live from...
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SDGOP Raises 57% More, Spends 64% More than SD Dems
The conventional wisdom is that South Dakota Republicans clobber South Dakota Democrats in fundraising. But a look at the Federal Election Commission finance reports suggests room for interpretation in...
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SDGOP Impeachment Resolution Vote Varies by County, Shows Openings for Dems?
While Pat Powers continues to be too distracted by his sponsors' press releases to get around to a real SDGOP convention recap, Ken Santema serves us the full text of South Dakota Republicans' latest...
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Strangely Quiet Wadhams Makes Puzzling Move from Team Rounds to SDGOP
I expected more from Dick Wadhams. But the slumping Rove wannabe who returned to the scene of his star-making 2004 crime to work for Mike Rounds made nary a ping on our political radar until last week,...
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Larson: Executive Orders? Impeach Daugaard the Usurper!
The South Dakota Republican Party predicates its formal call for President Barack Obama's impeachment on allegations that the President is "by passing [sic] Congress" and "usurping his authority". (One...
View ArticleNo More Janklows: Rounds Legacy of Non-Achievement Perfect for Today’s SDGOP
Darrell Solberg of Sioux Falls aptly summarizes the legacy of former Governor, now Senate candidate, Mike Rounds: He... spearheaded the failed Northern Beef Packing plant in Aberdeen, which has cost...
View ArticleSelective Hearing: GOP Prefers In-Person Testimony, Threatens Balkers with...
While the GOP leadership treats Joop Bollen with kid gloves, accepting without complaint his refusal to testify in person before the Government Operations and Audit Committee, I am reminded of a...
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Rounds, SDGOP Non-Responsive; Democrats Winning Rounds-Bollen-Corruption Debate
Ah, high school debate, that joyous season when ninth graders stand and deliver more public debates in one weekend than Mike Rounds will during the entire general election season. Looking at...
View ArticleRepublican Relativism Uncool, Say Blogger and Pastor
In the noteworthy philosophical juxtaposition of the week, my friend Leo Kallis discovers the real reason for Governor Dennis Daugaard's disdain for philosophy: the Governor has admitted that he is a...
View ArticleSDGOP Fumbles Wismer-Faker Attack with Stock Photo Hypocrisy
Just as Susan Wismer farted up her own message on EB-5 theft by letting some meathead consultant plagiarize content from other candidates, the SDGOP now fumbles the chance it has to royally roast...
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SDGOP Threatens to Sue TV Stations for Defamation; New Fightin’ Word: “Auction!”
As if we haven't had enough fun today, I finally get a copy of the written threat the South Dakota Republican Party issued to local media: stop running an anti-Mike Rounds ad, or we'll sue! William...
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