Archive for February, 2006
Big Hat Tip to Chris - I think we have a new SDWC t-shirt
A Big hat tip to my buddy and former college roommate Chris. He just got back from vacation and saw my post on how I had a mental block over a theme for the next t-shirt. Apparently he spent too much time on vacation watching cartoons, because he saw the elephant rearing back, and thought [...]
State GOP takes a poke at Tom Daschle
Hot off the Press - this release was issued late this morning by the South Dakota GOP:
WHERE DOES TOM DASCHLE STAND?
PIERRE - As South Dakota comes under attack from an out-of-state politician aiming to derail a project that could generate a massive economic boom in the region and create thousands of jobs, Tom Daschle finds [...]
Capitol Journal to Dems: Bad Democrats. Bad, Bad Democrats.
Dana Hess, Editor of the Pierre Capitol Journal, blames South Dakota Democrats for Ron Volesky pulling out of the Gubernatorial Race:
I especially like the line that in the same “amount of time, the Geddes Fine Arts Boosters could have raised three grand with a couple of car washes and a pancake feed. It’s painfully obvious [...]
Passed 7000 visits
I had good intentions of going up to the YMCA tonight to climb back on the horse of exercising.
That is, until my brand new .MP3 player decided it didn’t want to work. I should have known there was a reason Lewis Drug marked these things down to $39.95 from $100. Ugh. After fighting with it [...]
Add Greg Ammon to your list of candidates.
The Secretary of State is reporting that Greg Ammon of Dell Rapids has filed petitions to run as a Republican in District 25, giving Republicans their second candidate for the House seats currently held by Republican Tim Rave (who has also filed) and Democrat Mike Kroeger.
I’m not familiar with him myself, but from a quick [...]
Moore thought he was out… But J.A.I.L. went and pulled him back in.
State Senate Minority Leader Garry Moore announced that he’s going to switch houses this session, instead of bowing out as he had originally planned. From Nathan Johnson in the Yankton Daily Press and Dakotan:
South Dakota Senate Minority Leader Garry Moore of Yankton has announced he will be a 2006 state House candidate.
The District 18 Democratic [...]
A thought from J-Ro on the current state of the SDGOP
Joel Rosenthal over at SD Straight Talk happens to have been a long time South Dakota GOP chair, so I was interested to see what he had to say about the whole Volesky thing. But as I was reading it, what caught my eye was a little comment he had in reference to the [...]
Dems are starting to show a little blast from the past
Former Democratic State Representative Larry Lucas of Mission apparently filed petitions for the District 26A House Seat on Friday. Previously, Larry had 10 years in the House from 1991 through 2000 and from 1997-2000 had served as the assistant Minority Leader.
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best Political Website.
Now, that’s a weak excuse.
In today’s Argus Leader, Dave Kranz relates the weakest justification I think I’ve heard yet from the D’s on leaving the Gubernatorial race uncontested:
Post-Volesky strategy
It didn’t take some Democrats in the state Capitol long to come up with a strategy for their party after Ron Volesky withdrew from the governor’s race.
Even though it is virtually [...]
New SD Blogger on the scene
Add Robbinsdale Radical to your Democratic blog rolls. Located at http://rr57701.blogspot.com/ it looks like he started his blog shortly after the ban on abortion vote passed.
While he’s from the other side of the aisle, we welcome him to the blogosphere.
And it does illustrate a point I’ve made before. Conservative bloggers continue to fall behind in [...]
Rep. Hennies in Hospital. And thanks computer guys. Kind of.
As mentioned in today’s Rapid City Journal, Representative Tom Hennies apparently spent part of the week in St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre:
Rep. Tom Hennies, R-Rapid City, spent the past couple of days in the Pierre hospital, but that didn’t stop him from keeping up with the work of the Legislature. Hennies [...]
Such a nice day, it’s time for a Political Outing - 2/24/06
In addition to walking away from the State Senate this year due to term limits, Senate Majority Leader Eric Bogue walked away from the Faith Stock Show with $500 in his pocket from the $100 Club Prime Rib Dinner on February 11th. (As reported in Faith Independent 2/22)
Ashley Vanneman, daughter of Tripp County GOP Chair [...]
As Predicted - I broke 6k visitors for the Month
As Predicted - Tonight I broke 6000 website visitors for the Month (well over 11,000 hits!!)
Thanks readers!
Read it all at http://dakotawarcollege.blogspot.com - South Dakota’s Best Political Website.
District 24 Lincoln Day Dinner. With blurry photos.
Tonight was the District 24 Lincoln Day Dinner which I attended to give you readers the tidbits, the controversies, and to monitor the runway so you could know the fashions.. Well, maybe not, but I went to support the elephant in my own little way.
I got there a little early (mainly so I could get [...]
What my party means to me. From a Libertarian point of view
Bob Newland couldn’t resist speaking out on why he is a member of the Libertarian party. So, Bob Newland on “What my party means to me”:
My political party provides a principle that defines all who join: “No one has the right to initiate force or commit fraud in the pursuit of personal or political goals.”
Oh, [...]
Time to call out the election referees; At least go vote for the SDWC
Todd Epp’s unscientific web poll on “Your favorite South Dakota Blog” just had me drop out of the lead this morning, after consistently maintaining it since it’s inception. CCK has overtaken me, and a massive rush by SDP put them ahead of me as well.
I believe we need international election observers to take the helm [...]
More on the Volesky Pullout from Seth Tupper in Mitchell
The Mitchell Daily Republic has some more to add to the Volesky Gubernatorial Pullout in a pair of articles from Seth Tupper:
Volesky said he has no idea who might run for the Democratic nomination. Some former Democratic candidates said they are sure somebody will step forward, but they don’t know who.
Bernie Hunhoff, a Yankton magazine [...]
The Argus weighs in on the Volesky withdrawl
From an Article by Jon Walker, the Argus weighs in with the most extensive review yet on the Volesky withdrawl, and goes further into who might run in his place:
Who will run?
The decision surprised several Democrats, but they said others have plenty of time to enter the race with or without Volesky as a factor.
“Somebody [...]
The First "What my party means to me" response
Got my first “What my party means to me” piece from a Republican. “IK” makes no bones about where her loyalties lie and is pretty firm about where the line is drawn for her:
Belonging to my party means having the courage to do what’s right. aka - the janitorial staff. [...]
More on Volesky bowing out of the race
The Aberdeen American News has the more extensive story on their website from the Associated Press, where Dirk Lammers had the big scoop from Ron himself:
The lawyer and former state lawmaker said Wednesday that it’s all about money, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to raise enough of it to make a fair [...]
