Paula Hawks: A not ready for prime time candidate railing against made up stuff.

While our representatives in Washington are concerning themselves with questions and concerns affecting us as a nation, apparently Congresswoman Kristi Noem’s opponent, Paula Hawks, is switching tactics, and running on made up issues in State Government:

From: “Paula Hawks” <[email protected]>
Date: November 16, 2015 at 2:00:47 PM CST
To:
Subject: ✏ SIGN: government corruption
Reply-To: [email protected]

{redacted},  for too long, the South Dakota Republican-led government has participated in corrupt and unethical behavior – refusing to open up their back-room dealings to the public and obstructing progress at every turn, at every level of government. Last week, the Center for Public Integrity gave our state an “F” grade on its 2015 State Integrity report card. Our government officials – nearly all Republicans – have been guilty of concealing campaign finance reports, turning a blind eye to electoral corruption, and hiding lobbying disclosure reports from the public. If our government won’t improve on its own, it’s up to us to DEMAND a change in leadership. Sign my petition to demand transparency and accountability in our state government! The South Dakota GOP has been cheating its way to the top, ignoring the best interest of the people, and running wild without any oversight or accountability. We’re WAY overdue for an overhaul. It’s up to us to bring REAL leadership back to South Dakota. Sign my petition demanding an end to the GOP’s dysfunction, corruption, and obstruction. Click here >>> Thanks for taking a stand, Paula

There’s a couple of fatal flaws with this train of thought for Paula Hawks.

First, its a made up issue from a special interest group trying to promote their agenda, as easily illustrated by this headline off of their own website:

Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk

THEY GAVE EVERYONE AWFUL GRADES WHO HAVEN’T PASSED THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST LEGISLATION.  Seriously. The gave three states higher grades, and the rest got D’s and F’s.  I’d say that’s a pretty darned slanted agenda, especially by their own admission of the scoring.

Second, and probably more important to Paula, her “state level” partisan snipping shows that she isn’t anywhere near ready for prime time.  She wants to play in the majors. But by her own words, she isn’t ready to be sent up.

While Congresswoman Noem is talking about issues of national importance and how they affect South Dakota, Hawks is mired down in mewling about Republicans in State Government being “meanies.”

And the best part – “concealing campaign finance reports…. and hiding lobbying disclosure reports from the public”  – has no basis in fact. It just flat out isn’t true.  In other words, her propaganda has caught her in an outright lie.

If she’s going to make the claim, lets hear her tell us exactly, which lobbyist(s) she’s accusing of “hiding their lobbyist disclosure report?”  And who exactly is she accusing of “concealing campaign finance reports?”  Because last I checked, they’re pretty easy to look up on the internet and all.

But that does not play into the lies she’s telling to try to raise money. Really, until she cares to put some information on the table to back up her claims, we shouldn’t consider her as anything more than a politician who throws out lies to try to gain traction.

One that’s stuck in the bush leagues, at that.