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As for working for Republicans, I worked for four years as press secretary during Bill Janklow’s final term. I have turned down many job offers from any number of Republican and Democratic candidates and office holders through the past 25 years. The press secretary position was the only time I worked for government, other than a summer job I held with ASCS measuring crop fields in college and a small, short-term advisory contract with S.D. Public Broadcasting at some point in the early 1990s.

To summarize why I took the press secretary job: Tom Daschle was Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, he and Bill Janklow got along well, Bill Janklow wasn’t planning to run for any other office (I didn’t want to be part of any campaign effort), Janklow was the longest-serving governor in state history, Daschle was the highest ranking elected official in state history, and it was a chance to see a historic period from a unique vantage point.

From a news media standpoint there were many things which needed to be modernized in state goverment’s day to day workings with reporters. Some were as simple as e-mailing news releases rather than faxing and developing a web site. As I’ve written, the number of reporters has declined drastically since I began reporting in South Dakota in 1984. One of the steps started during my time as press secretary was instituting teleconferences so reporters statewide could have access to state officials on important developments. Another was development of the weekly News Tips which alert reporters and the general public to state government meetings and public events.

If you think I am a Republican hack, ask Scott Heidepriem what he said to me earlier in the 2009 legislative session, after I reported on the way that Republicans rammed some legislation through the state Senate on a simple majority vote when Scott was arguing a two-thirds was necessary.

With that in mind, this “issue” is meaningless to voters. No proof of anything other than innuendo from some Republican legislators and a Republican journalist. Even if voters wanted to believe this crap, it would NOT affect an election because it is meaningless to average voters in this climate.

Or are we Republicans just trying to level the playing field. You know, make sure one group doesn’t make more money then the other groups. Oh, wait a minute, that’s what we say about obama isn’t it!

And then they need to understand that you can never be part of a firm that sues or might sue the State of South Dakota!

If your going to go that route as an attorney then write politics out of your life! Why can’t they understand that?

Good point Pat.

Despite being a friend (in Pierre, it is hard to not know everyone and since we were both softball players and baseball friends plus him marrying a gal a few years older than me from Riggs High School), when I worked for Mickelson, he wrote several articles that I thought were unfair and excessively critical of my programs (and still do).

Bob plays NO favorites, writes as he sees it, and lets the chips fall where they do. Criticize Bob for not getting it right or missing part of the story (he is definitely not perfect). More than once, I hit him over the head with a baseball bat. But, accusing him of doing something unethical or inappropriate is a “dog that won’t hunt.”

(Anon, too bad your take on it is utterly biased, false, and without merit. It’s as if I anonymously typed on the website – “I know this guy named anon, and he molests farm animals.”

So, unless you care to put your name to it, can cite sources, and do better than to act like a jackass, don’t bother. -PP)

Vote Heidepriem – or he’ll sue you!

At the end we are asked if he is incompetent or decietful…

“Are the those the qualities we as South Dakotans want from our next governor?”