There is a new opinion column at Dakota Scout this morning with several different takes on the special session. One, opposing the prison project, comes from House Majority Whip Brandei Schaefbauer. Or, at least she claims it does. Because it reads like it was generated by another source:
And there’s a recent parallel. When all other therapeutic options are removed from the menu of possible solutions, what remains is the most drastic and sometimes, quite harmful final prescription. Pushed by agenda. Immune from debate. We’ve seen this model before.
I have serious doubts that this was authored by one of the dimmest bulbs plugged into the legislature. If I was to venture a guess, given the unnecessary adjectives & wordiness, this was generated by ShadGPT. (Ghost written by her buddy, disgraced newsreader Shad Olson).
I’m not sure what is worse for District 3. Being represented by Brandei or her pretending to represent them while being sock-puppeted by Shad Olson.

Interesting way to refer to an elected member of our legislature. From one dim bulb to the light of the valley, why link the article? 🙂
Her Facebook posts of late all reek of Shad, too. You don’t just go from stumbling incoherent sentences to poorly written run-on self-righteous garbage paragraphs in a blink, unless your author has changed. Brandei can’t pronounce most of the words in her recent post, much less spell them.
She has to realize that when you love hearing your own voice as much as she does, people learn your speaking style – and her posts of late don’t fit.
The people of D3 didn’t elect Shad, I doubt they want him speaking for them.
I really hope they don’t want BranDEI speaking for them either!
Things are getting pretty serious with those two. Are they Facebook official yet?
Lots of hateful comments on this site. Are you sure you are a member of the Conservative Party? You seem to pick on everyone but Democrats. A divided party is a party that will no longer win. I am concerned with the rhetoric I read on here. It is disrespectful.
No such thing as “the Conservative Party” unless you’re in the UK. It’s the Republican Party.
Have you seen, watched, read what the far right fringe does to good Republicans? They are the ones that go after only Republicans and NEVER a Democrat or their causes. If they spent as much time on the Democrat Medicaid bill and others as they do attacking Republicans, we might have defeated it. They do the Democrats work for them. I’ve seen plenty of anti-Democrat articles on this blog.
You’re joking, right? I love it when the far right plays victim when literally NO ONE throws more mud, calls more names, nor slanders more good Republicans with hearsay and lies, more than they do. Literally, no one. Go take a long, hard look in the mirror before you come at me with your “party unity” crybaby BS.
With all sincerity,
Far right labeled “RINO” who’s sick of this shit!
P.S.: QUIT DESTROYING MY PARTY, you worthless freeloaders!
You’re not “constitutional conservatives”, you’re textbook DEMOCRATS – plain and simple!
This is funny, I also immediately thought this sounded far too sophisticated for Brandei. Contrast her floor speeches last session with this column.
Even I wouldn’t wish that on Brandei.
Well you know it can’t be Shandy.. He’s barred from alcohol as part of his sentence.
https://www.kotatv.com/2025/07/04/former-rapid-city-news-anchor-receives-suspended-imposition-sentence/