Apparently, Rep. Jason Frerichs doesn’t like it when someone calls into questions legislation he supported to create another level of bureaucracy. And he really doesn’t like it when it’s done with wit:
In his comments last week Schoenbeck said if a committee were trying to create a thoroughbred racehorse this is what the committee would have got and it would look to the rest of the state like a three-legged, blind, mangy dog and would run as well.
Frerichs says Schoenbeck is playing Washington DC politics using nasty words. He says the new districts were created under state law in the last legislative session.
Schoenbeck offered his comments on the legislation, but if you listen to Frerich’s comments, they’re not much more than a series of dismissive cliché’s that are a bit more personal. “playing Washington DC politics using nasty words.” “What Schoenbeck is trying to do is to work up some ground after crops have been planted…… the ships is sailing.”
It seems like Lee hit a nerve, and Frerichs didn’t like it.
I’m sure this is only getting started.
The problem with water is it is fluid and unpredictable needed in some areas and unwanted in others. Cats are easier to herd as they are predictable. Betty Olson and I joked that we live in areas where we would welcome our neighbors tiling water onto our property if they could as we are regularly short in quantity of this precious resource. Others in low flatland continue flood wars with nature and want Government to fix the flooding. Property rights will dictate common law decisions on most cases of flood control which end up flooding anyone’s land.
The full interview with Jason Frerichs is worth listening to. When he isn’t calling me names for calling out this liberal boondoggle, he is explaining how they plan to create taxing ability for these new 9(or 27 depending on how you count them) governmental agencies. He also explains why only allowing rural citizens to vote is “fair” on these projects to drain water into the rivers. He doesn’t think people like the lower middle income homeowners in south Watertown, that he proposes to flood, should have any say in this issue. If you farm or live near the Sioux River south of Wattown, he’s ok with flooding you too.
Hopefully the next session will either give all South Dakotans a vote, or just repeal the whole unnecessary set of new governments
I think that’s what struck me in the article. While I didn’t see the original, in the excerpted one, you criticized the policy, and he went on the attack personally.
Holding caucus meetings in a phone booth must make Senate Democrats crabby.
Here’s an example of how screwed up this new government program is. On Jason’s facebook page people are complimenting him on it for his work on water quality and to stop draining! His speech for it and his goal is to NOT have it address water quality (taxpayers downstream get that bill) AND to increase drainage!! Typical mangy dog government program