Had a reader pass this on to me.
After Team Dusty Johnson had over 200 volunteers turn in over 5000 petition signatures to the Secretary of the State recently, the Doeden Dumpster-fire team decided they might want to get at it. So they sent people to stand in front of the Sioux Falls Convention Center to try to gather names. Except the advertising seems a bit odd:
Here’s TeamDumpster-Fire.. we only wish it could be colder and more inhospitable for them.
But, what’s that sign they’re carting around?
The sign blares “SDGOP Governor’s Petition” with Toby Doeden in teensy small print. (Not that we see a disclaimer, either) The sign deceptively portrays that it somehow has something to do with the GOP sponsoring or otherwise being a part of this effort. So do they have to deceive that it’s a party thing to get people to sign? How unpopular is he?
What’s next? “Not Toby Doeden” signs?
It gives me the impression that if they highlight the Toby thing, and emphasize that signers will be supporting the Toby Doeden campaign, people are just going to drive on by. (Because running them over is highly illegal. Don’t do that, please.)
*UPDATE*
A number of people are outraged that Toby is trying to fool voters that he’s somehow endorsed by the party. And they’re sounding off on social media. So much so, that the SDGOP had to come out with a statement walking away from it:
You notice that it avoids any direct scolding of Doeden. Likely because some of the free-dumb caucus affiliates have leadership positions in the GOP, and Toby is generally their guy.
Seems just like their TPUSA x Toby Doeden Super Bowl event that made it seem like TPUSA was supporting Toby
They are so desperate, it’s entertaining.
Isn’t soliciting on that property banned?
No, the parking lot is public property, just can’t cross that road in front.
He mirrors the tactics of every MAGA candidate before him—rebranding Mount Rushmore to the disingenuous “Doeden Rushmore” as a means of undermining our shared history.
“We only wish it could be colder and more inhospitable for them.”
“People are just going to drive on by. (Because running them over is highly illegal“
That is far beyond the pale, regardless of what I think of their preferred candidate. Dusty is already going to trounce Doeden in June. There is zero excuse to wish harm on a couple of volunteers or campaign staffers.
That’s an interpretative stretch & weird take you just had in your head and felt the need to tap out.
Yes, I hope the people supporting the candidate who threw a rally with the ‘black nazi’ guy are as miserable as can be, and understand that their candidate has to write a check for his support. There’s no grassroots here – it’s all astroturf.
As well as to not want for stupid people to do them harm. Again, people should not do that. There’s a lot of crazy people out there.
If that was your first thought, you need therapy.
Lighten up Francis. You must be a leftist with no sense of humor.
Would it be fair to say that these are all out of state paid petitioners using shady deceptive tactics again?
*I think* the one with the clipboards is in-state. Can’t speak to sign-guy.
I’m waiting for reports about paid petitioners to come in. I don’t know if he can do it without writing a check. 30 days to go.
Sort of. Grant Santos is from California but goes to SDSU
This isn’t a fair requirement. Most Toby supporters can’t sign their own names.
I wish people would back off the attacks on him. In a tight race between dusty and Rhoden, they might split the moderate vote allowing Doeden to win the nomination. It would be the first time in decades that a democrat could become governor. The only scenario for that is a Doeden primary win.
Totally deceptive practices. Probably thought up by that goose stepping boot licker Drew Dennert.
Or the White boy Manhart.
Garbage all of them!