GOP Abandons All Principle, Attacks Pressler for Seeking Farm Subsidy...
Suffering a paroxysm of anti-Pressler ranting on his blogging deathbed, Pat Powers launches an attack that epitomizes the rottenness of the South Dakota Republican philosophical core. Powers dings...
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Howie Claims GOP Wants to Buy Him Off, Rounds One More EB-5 Lie from Implosion
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....
View ArticleBob Ellis Calls Tea Party Express “Whore” for Endorsing Rounds
The Tea Party Express shed credibility this week by throwing a life preserver to failing and only faintly Tea-flavored Republican candidate Mike Rounds. Reasonable Republican John Tsitrian finds that...
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SDGOP Sends Nervous, Dissembling Mailer to Buffalo Republicans on EB-5
The EB-5 scandal is so dangerous to Republicans that the state party is lying to its own voters. An eager reader says the SDGOP is sending out the following letter to registered Republicans: SDGOP...
View ArticleNRSC Anti-Weiland Repeats Old Fibs About ACA-Medicare Savings and Keystone XL...
Republicans are desperate to beat back Rick Weiland's October surge. Alas, the only way the National Republican Senatorial Committee sees fit to do that is through more falsehood: The two biggest lies...
View ArticleSDGOP Robocalling State Employees
Having trouble getting through to state offices lately? It could be because the South Dakota Republican Party is sending out robocalls to remind our civil servants of who butters their bread....
View ArticleHome Run Ad: West River Republican “Can’t Vote for Mike Rounds”
Elm Springs rancher Pat Trask boils the case against Mike Rounds into one simple message: Mike Rounds puts big money over the interests of South Dakota. "I voted for Reagan, Bush, Thune -- but I can't...
View ArticleProminent District 16 Voters Ignore GOP Obama Tactics, Endorse Democrat Tornberg
It's not just Mike Rounds who shouts "Obama!" to get votes. The South Dakota Republican Party is fanning anti-Obama sentiment in the District 16 Senate race to protect Senator Dan Lederman from strong...
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Former GOP Legislators Endorse Democrat Schultz over DWC-Fave Jenna Haggar
Dakota War College lurches toward the weekend seeing two of its favorite Republican legislators losing Republican endorsements to their Democratic counterparts. Three high-profile former Republican...
View ArticleRepublicans Play Word Games to Dismiss Opponents and Avoid Discussion
In small potatoes, Pat Powers farmer-blows his nose on my analysis of the real reasons South Dakota Democrats lost this week and summarizes the Republican effort to brand Democrats in one telling...
View ArticleRepublicans Abandon Truth and Principle, Engage in Postmodern Power Worship
Senator Ted Cruz tells us that net neutrality would slow down the Internet like the Affordable Care Act is slowing down health care. (Two responses to Cruz's absurdity: net neutrality is not the ACA,...
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GOP Picks Westra over Schoenbeck for House Assistant Majority Leader
At least he won't go hungry... (Lee Schoenbeck and friends, from Schoenbeck Twitter feed, 2014.11.14) Not only did the 2014 election deprive us the pleasure of testing Lee Schoenbeck's commitment to...
View ArticleRepublicans Not Keen on Serving Constituents in Aberdeen
As we discuss the merits of different districting schemes for better democratic representation, David Newquist notes that our Congressional delegation is leaving northeastern South Dakota out in the...
View ArticleGOP to Press Advantage in State Legislatures; Culture War Resurgent in Pierre?
Minority Leaders Sutton and Hawley must feel like Dwarves watching the Goblins and Wargs marching their way, with no prospect of Great Eagles swooping in to save South Dakota for democracy. Reid Wilson...
View ArticleHowie Says SDGOP Filled with Democrats
Gordon Howie says the face of tyranny is right here in South Dakota, with one-party rule corrupting the South Dakota Republican Party and state government. Yet like Cardinal Raymond Burke blaming...
View ArticleSD Republicans Open Attack on Minimum Wage Increase with HB 1094
Voters, the Republican campaign to overturn your will on the minimum wage has begin. Today, Representative Jim Bolin (R-16/Canton) filed House Bill 1094, which would repeal one small provision of the...
View ArticleHB 1175: Democrats Want One-Year No-Change Period on Ballot Measures
While South Dakota Republicans chip away at the initiative and referendum, South Dakota Democrats are trying to protect the will of the people. Every Democrat in the South Dakota Legislature is backing...
View ArticleAg Sec. Lentsch: Federal Regulation Beats Local Patchwork on GMO Labeling
Friend and blogger Don Carr has pointed out the scientific disconnect Senator John Thune and other tools of the plutocracy exhibit in their embrace of scientific evidence to defend genetically modified...
View ArticleAny Howie Supporters Left in Pennington County GOP?
The Pennington County Republicans send me their list of committee chairs for the 2015–2016 term: Membership: Burton Sly Events: David Fisk Media: David Johnson Bylaws and Ethics: David Johnson...
View ArticleSenate Passes Youth Minimum Wage to Exploit Child Labor, Defy Voter Initiative
South Dakota Senate Republicans yesterday declared that neither young people's labor nor the popular will matter when they want to cut business a break. On a party-line 26–7 vote, the Senate yesterday...
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