Archive for October, 2005
The Weekly roundup - October 31, 2005
I’ve been ignoring this feature a little, but there’s lots of political happenings last week and this week to pay attention to:
Pierre Electrical Utility Takeover
The word I’m getting is that within the Co-op world, the impending effort of the Oahe Electrical Coop attempting to take over Pierre’s Electrical Utility is THE topic of discussion. Certainly [...]
Happy Halloween!A few items from the room in the War College that the faculty won’t go in after dark
This has nothing to do with politics, but it’s in the spirit of Halloween.
I think I might have admitted when I first started this weblog, if there’s one thing I enjoy besides politics, it’s “true” ghost stories. At least, they are as true as the reader cares to allow them to be.
Along those lines, I [...]
More on the congressional campaign from the western half of the state.
From today’s Rapid City Journal, in an article by Alan Aker:
I’m disgusted that so many of my fellow Republicans have turned into surrender-monkeys when it comes to Herseth.
We can win this one. We’re the plurality of South Dakota voters, and we win the vast majority of all elections all over the state. Some of us [...]
Gee, I wonder where they heard that?
From today’s Argus Leader:
Interest in House seat
Thomas Bixler, a Yankton health nutrient salesman, says he plans to challenge Democratic Rep. Stephanie Herseth.
Read the Argus story that I scooped them out of by about a week here (and without any credit to the SDWC, I might add).
To Dave Kranz’s credit, in his column today, he [...]
As promised10 Questions with Republican Congressional Candidate Thomas Bixler
As Todd Epp somewhat pointed out, it’s been a Bixler Week. Thomas let it be known to the BlogOSphere world that he was running, and from this 10q, it looks like he’s going to start appearing at GOP events as a candidate, starting with the GOP State Dinner in Sioux Falls.
So, agree with him or [...]
Coming this weekend:10 Questions with Republican Congressional Candidate Thomas Bixler
They’re here. I have the responses to my 10 Questions. I’m going to be going to Brookings tonight, but sometime this weekend, I’ll have a moment and they should be the next post.
Just a teaser to whet your appetite:
“She supports country-of-orgin labeling. I do. She supports our troops in Iraq. I do, despite [...]
As we segue into the weekend, more from Tom Bixler, Republican candidate for congress
Tonight an Anonymous commenter thought I was being a smarty pants when I linked to a Blind Orange Julius post objectifying Stephanie Herseth in response to a question they had.
My silly response was based on the fact I found the whole question silly. He/she wanted to know if on the basis of a single press [...]
Would Dems call it "Sympathy for the Devil?"
Ceceila Fire Thunder, the Oglala Sioux Tribe President now under suspension had an interesting quote with regards to her suspension this week in the Lakota Journal:
“Sometimes I feel like George Bush. I feel like I’m the Republican President, and my council are Republican/Democrats. So as the president of this tribe - I will continue to [...]
Thoughts on the news of the dayThe Power and The Volesky
100% chance of electrical storm
What would normally be front page news in any other town was buried in a teeny tiny little article on page 2 of the Capitol Journal tonight (and not posted on the Internet). Oahe Electric Cooperative is going to make an attempt to take over the City of Pierre’s electrical business [...]
More Ballot Initiative NewsS.T.O.P. in the name of Bill
Celeste Calvitto of the Rapid City Journal is reporting that the S.T.O.P. initiative is as good as on the ballot:
Napoli said Tuesday that his Committee to Stabilize Tax On Property, or STOP, has gathered more than enough signatures to get an amendment placed on the November 2006 general election ballot.
“Things are going to land where [...]
J.A.I.L.12k and National Voter Outreach
I was doing some checking on the net in my continuing quest to index politically related weblogs on the site, and I came across one of the J.A.I.L. affiliates in another state indexing a snotty comment I had made some time ago (me? snotty?).
I followed it to the J.A.I.L. site, and if I hadn’t [...]
I’m Late! I’m Late! To the Intelligent Design Debate!
I wish I had found this earlier when the intelligent design debate was raging a month or two ago.
The Monkey Song. As sung by Crystal Barnard (the gal from Wings) and her sister. Introduction by Jerry Fallwell. (I’m no kin to the monkey - no, no, no…… )
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - [...]
300Thoughts and tribute
Oooooo. Tons of traffic today. I’m not sure, but I think this might actually be my daily record for site traffic. If this keeps up, I’m going to have to scoop the Main Stream Media more often.
Amazingly enough, I find if you break a story that someone is running as a GOP against an incumbent [...]
More Breaking news on the Bixler Campaign
As I think I promised at 12:40 in the morning, now that I’m awake, worked, and had some caffeine, here’s the views and platform of Mr. Thomas Bixler who announced to me late last night that he was running for Congress against Congresswoman Herseth.
Thomas Bixler for Congress-2006
Thomas Bixler For Congress Campaign Candidacy Message
I am Thomas [...]
BREAKING NEWS!!Ladies and Gentlemen, I think we have our first candidate.
(Please credit the South Dakota War College)
In response to my e-mail regarding my prior post on Mr. Bixler, I got an e-mail in reply about 12:30 tonight. I was getting ready to go to bed, until I opened the e-mail. Republican ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our first confirmed candidate against Stephanie Herseth. [...]
Brookings County GOP now has a website.
The Brookings County Republican party now has a website up and running.
Click here to view the site. It’s just getting off the ground, but it’s got an attractive design. I especially like the history of elected legislative officials for Brookings county going back to Sheldon Cotton. I anticipate it’s going to be tweaked more as [...]
In this corner, for the DEM’s, Stephanie Herseth. And in this corner for the GOP, Tom Bixler?
I was checking out the political websites tonight, and came across Politics 1, which is one of those sites where you can read who the candidates supposedly are for various upcoming races. (Kind of similar to my WIKI). And for on the website’s page for South Dakota, scrolling down to the congressional races, I noticed [...]
The Legislator with One Red Shoe
I believe State Legislator Shantel Krebs is in the process of opening up a store - The Red Shoe. She has a website at http://www.theredshoe.com which notes that coming soon she’s going to be selling “Designer Shoes for Women of Distinction” in Downtown Sioux Falls.
With six kids, I’m more likely to be shopping at Payless [...]
The Day in politics - October 24th
Big day today in South Dakota politics.
Today back in 1954, Marion Michael Rounds was born. In addition to his ten years in the State Senate - five of those as Majority Leader - he just happened to get elected to the office of Governor in 2002.
(I remember this one off the top of my head [...]
Auditing the Republican State Central Committee Meeting
I had a meeting on my calendar this afternoon that was a “must attend” for me.
I’m not a pheasant hunter, and I choose not to watch the ritual weekly beatings of the Vikings, although I see they pulled it out today. So I chose to “audit” today’s GOP Republican State Central Committee meeting. As a [...]
