The Brown County Republican party has an item in their June Newsletter advertising a training coming up from the “Life Defense Fund” where they are offering training on how to say no to signing a petition:
As noted in the advertisement, “If they get enough signatures this dangerous amendment would cancel all pro-life laws! We will need people bringing this truth, especially at the Brown County Fair. Sponsored by Life Defense Fund with speaker, Dave Roetman.”
I thought if they got enough signatures, then it would be placed on the ballot for people to vote. But apparently they say it will “cancel all pro-life laws!” (I guess when you’re on a roll..)
It did get my attention that they have engaged with former Minnehaha County GOP Chair, former SDGOP Finance Director/Political Director, former Monae Johnson campaign person and holder of other past-tense superlatives, Dave Roetman, who co-founded the Patriot Ripple group in Sioux Falls to defeat Republican officeholders.
It does sound like some high level stuff, when you need Dave to teach people how to not do something. Who would have thought you needed a training – with two separate sessions at 1pm and 3pm – on how not to sign one’s name?
Stay tuned.
They want to harass petitioners. And they are afraid of democracy. I am pro-life, but this stuff is really weird.
The don’t sign campaign is idiotic. They clearly have no idea how easy it is to get signatures and get something on the ballot.
I know SBA says preventing it from getting on the ballot is the best way to stop it but it’s such a dumb strategy because (1. It’s easy to get signatures and we have a relatively low bar in SD (2. They have unlimited resources to spend.
I’d say Dave is an expert at not doing something.
Dave is a smart guy but those who cooked up this plan might as well embrace unrestricted abortion access in SD.
No one is afraid of democracy, but too many people sign a petition without understanding what they are signing. And the petitioners are likely to be biased in their explanations.
I sign every petition because I believe in democracy.
Democracy is mob rule, it’s two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
We have a Republic, and if this garbage continues we will not be able to keep it.
Dave found his calling- training people how to not do anything. He can finally pass his expertise onto a new generation of people who won’t do anything.
I was recently contemplating the divide within the Republican party, contemplating how it might be bridged.
The training sessions are not designed to train people to reject signing the petitions, or do nothing as many of you are claiming. Read the first sentence of the paragraph at the bottom of the flyer. The sessions are designed to train people to educate other people not to sign the petitions.
The training is to train the trainers who will then train others to do nothing because no one is better at doing nothing than trainers of trainers. There are so many trains here, we need a train yard.
Moronic.
This kind of leadership is why the abortionists will win on the ballot.
It is pretty obvious the RTL crowd know if the measure makes the ballot it will pass.