Archive for May, 2008
The Final Countdown. Anyone feel like going door to door?
Just like other candidates this primary election season, I’m making a push towards the finish line. I slightly boosted my TV buy, I added a radio ad, and my tabloid hits the Brookings paper tomorrow after making its debut in Volga yesterday. And on top of everything else, we’re holding a door-to-door rally in [...]
More Primary Action from around the state
Mike Buckingham is in the Rapid City paper with an ad in his primary challenge to Dennis Schmidt:
You can also find John Teupel
Mark Kirkeby.
Directly in mailboxes, you can also find Corey Brown, candidate in District 23.
Okay - Time for a head to head.
To give voters - or at least the SDWC readers - the opportunity to compare the candidates, here’s both TV commercials airing in Brookings/Volga for the GOP Candidates. First, Orv Smidt:
And one you’ve seen before, my commercial. I figured I’d be better off being a still slideshow than trying to sustain a sexy telegenic presence [...]
Washington Post: SD Last competitive state (who would have thunk…)
From the Washington Post:
Looking for an upset in a state where key leaders have endorsed her opponent, Hillary Clinton is campaigning in three towns in South Dakota, echoing familiar themes of improving education, expanding health care and the importance of her staying in the race through the final primaries.
While referring by name to the [...]
District 15 Democratic Candidate: “Nowhere” South Dakota
(h/t to South DaCola)
District 15 Democratic House Candidate Martha Vanderlinde (or somone claiming to be her) recently posted the following comment on the website for the Ellen DeGeneres show. And from the looks of it, it sounds like maybe she needs to leave the state. Or at least find a place that’s somewhere, as opposed [...]
Heating up in District 7
This is a good one. While my opponent was nowhere to be seen at the only candidate forum for the legislative primary, my wife saw him on TV on the Spike Channel. A review of the public file shows he’s blowing over $2500 on television this weekend… I’m sure it’s in response to my television [...]
Primary night - where are you going to be?
From my mailbox:
Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Joel Dykstra invites interested members of the media to join him at the Dykstra for Senate campaign headquarters on Primary night for coverage of the South Dakota election returns.
Dykstra will be available throughout the evening for interviews and live updates. Interviews can also be scheduled [...]
Can the SDWC survive an election?
I had started this post under a previous topic, but found it was getting wordy, so I’m making it a top level thing. It comes about because I mentioned the Clinton/Obama race and violently changed topic in mid-stream of consciousness to Whiplash, the cowboy monkey.
Sorry, I have a thing for the little Taco John’s [...]
More Clinton versus Obama as the Pri….. Nevermind, I’d rather look at the cowboy monkey.
I was going to devote a post to the Associated Press article at Yahoo.com on how the Clinton versus Obama primary is shaping up in South Dakota:
Straddling the line between Midwest and West, South Dakota is overwhelmingly rural with corn and soybeans in the east and rolling cattle ranches and the Black Hills in the [...]
Clinton v. Obama. What’s your pick?
Okay - Obama versus Hillary.
What’s your call on the statewide total next Tuesday night?
Although I’m being largely ignored by the Argus…. I think this is a hot contest… Kind of.
Gosh, I must really stink.
Terry Woster of the Argus Leader ignored the 2 primary contests in District 7 in his article today on the hot South Dakota primaries. Including the one involving moi.:
A few other legislative races to watch June 3:
In District 27, Democratic Rep. Jim Bradford of Pine Ridge, is challenging incumbent Democratic [...]
Campaign filings abound. Are they now Open and Slightly Soiled?
I see the campaign filings are coming in fast and furious. The most interesting one? South Dakotans for Open and Clean Government, of course. Why? Check out the donations.
The largest are 3 donations from separate people of $100 each. That is, if you ignore the donations from the SDCAC for $50,000, $65,000, and $60,000.
So, $175, [...]
Crow Creek bribery case blows up all over Pierre
The Argus has an article tonight noting that there’s a few people in trouble over the “donations” solicited by the former Superintendent of the Crow Creek School…
A 55-count superceding indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court charges five people with fraud, money laundering and theft and bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.
Read that here. This [...]
I promised I’d provide it, so here it is.. (Updated)
I had included a clip of this in a previous post, but since it’s going to hit the streets tomorrow, there’s little reason to keep the cat all tied up in the bag. So, without further ado, here’s my advertising piece which will start arriving in the district tomorrow.
I had originally only teased you all [...]
Silly me. I thought the legislature appropriated.
I think all this does is confirm a previous thesis I made that the Legislature has ceded too much power to the executive branch. The Argus Leader writes today that the Governor “found” some money, and is spending it on the laptop initiative. Despite not being authorized by the legislature to do so:
The Rounds administration [...]
Equality SD makes first set of campaign donations. 4 West River Republicans actually recieve their stamp of approval.
Equality South Dakota, who describes it’s mission as “to secure, protect, and support the rights and the well being of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) South Dakotans and their families” recently made their first set of campaign donations to South Dakota legislative candidates through their Political Action Committee.
As noted in their press release in [...]
Jason Frerichs just sent me a pile of stuff on his race. Check it out.
Democratic candidate Jason Frerichs just sent me a whole pile of stuff from his race. Check it out..
First a trio of radio ads:
intro-frerichs-radio.mp3
radio-frerichs-e85-blender-pump.mp3
and radio-frerichs-education.mp3
Next, his newspaper ad:
and finally a postcard:
Click on any of the images to enlarge. What do you think?
Dan Lederman Campaign piece hits the mail
GOP Candidate Dan Lederman had a campaign piece hit the mail yesterday, click on either of the images to enlarge.
Gonyo tabloid hits the mail today. Apparently, they’ll let anyone on the ballot nowadays.
I wasn’t expecting this tabloid mailer from Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Charles Lyonel Gonyo in today’s mail. But, it does continue to confirm what I had assumed from the get go. Saying he seems a little bit ‘off,’ is just putting it a little too lightly.
His brochure talks about how muslims and mexicans are infiltrating [...]
So, do I have too darn many kids? And should that have any bearing on electability?
I read this post at the SoDacola blog with the link to my ad where I’m pictured with “the fam,”
and it gave me a chuckle when I read:
I don’t know Pat Powers personally, just through the blogosphere, but one wonders if he gets elected to the State Legislature if he will vote to limit birth [...]
