2025 September SDGOP FEC by Pat Powers
By any measure of my experience, Majority Leader and Senator John Thune is a nice guy. So nice, his campaign committee threw the State Republican Party a $5000 lifeline last month.
Unfortunately, they really didn’t take this as a hint that maybe they should put some efforts into raising money themselves, as when you look at the list of donors.. there aren’t any. Once again, the South Dakota Republican Party failed to raise any money from individual donors. AND they pulled cash from the state account as they transferred $1190.00 into the federal account.
What did they spend it on? A little for accounting, and the lion’s share went to “outreach facilitator” Tanna Brummett. Whom you might remember from this incident.
$6260.66 total from Senator Thune and the transfer, $5705.45 spent, leaving them $33,422.68 cash on hand.
A Republican Party that doesn’t have a clue how to raise the money they need to survive.
I don’t imagine they have a lot of lifelines left.
I generally agree and support Senator Thune but I’m disappointed that he gave any money to the imbeciles at the state GOP.
They’re just going to spend the money on the usual “Primary John Thune” campaign.
If the party has no money, how is a convention venue rented, and how do ballot candidates get on the ballot if there is no convention.
a convention can be held in a field outside of Miller. Bring your own food and lawn chairs..
I can’t wait for Eschenbama to start asking for people to pay for tickets to the state convention. The A-holes in charge of the party are the same whiners who complained about a $100 fee for a 3-day convention in Watertown in 2022. Without fundraising and sponsors, the party will have to ask for $300 or $400 from convention attendees just to cover the cost of the venue. I will show up to convention on Saturday morning to vote for nominees and not pay the party a dime as I drink their coffee, eat their snacks and use the venue space. Just like they did in 2022!
It is more likely the convention will be only one day long and everybody will have to pay $300 just for that one day
It never made any sense to me that over half the delegates were freeloaders anyway
Why would anyone donate to the SDGOP ? They have the State sewed up. No Democrat or other party will try and run against them