Ahlers names McCleerey as running mate

From the Secretary of State’s office, comes the yacht rock of Gubernatorial tickets with Dan Ahlers running Steve McCleerey as his running mate:

Neither one of them bad people, but just not a lot to get excited about either.

12 thoughts on “Ahlers names McCleerey as running mate”

  1. Hard to imagine a ticket just as nice but somehow less exciting than Holling and Ruth-Anne. I guess we should have put ourselves out there

  2. Ahlers should drop out as he has zero chance of winning. Instead use his treasure chest to pay for school lunches for South Dakota children.

    RLTW

    1. School lunches are the responsibility of parents. Lunch money = child support.
      Don’t give deadbeat dads any more ideas of how to weasel out of paying child support.

  3. I forgot Ahlers got to choose a running mate. This announcement was just totally not on my radar. For it to trickle out like it did, and for it to be grumpy old Democrat Legislator McCleery, I feel like Ahlers lost points. Why didn’t he ask Jamie Smith, or Erin Healy, or anyone with energy and name ID?! Baffled.

    1. It’s fairly evident that Ahlers is just a placeholder candidate. If Doeden had won the primary, Ahlers would have withdrawn and Sutton or Smith would have been leading the ticket. With Rhoden winning, Ahlers will just use the debates to push a future Dem-sponsored voter initiative…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *