It looks like former Governor Dennis Daugaard has a lot of faith in Alex Jensen. Because he’s gone all-in on the former legislator’s campaign for City Council in a big way with a $10,000 donation from his former Gubernatorial campaign account:
Municipal Candidate Committee_ Alex Jensen for Sioux Falls_ Campaign Finance Disclosure Report_ at-Large Co… by Pat Powers on Scribd
But, it’s not just former Governor Daugaard who has underlined his support of Alex Jensen for Sioux Falls City Council. It’s a list of Republicans within town and outside of Sioux Falls who are all pulling for former legislator Jensen in the campaign.
Deb Soholt. Jeff Partridge. Mark Mickelson. Jason Ravnsborg. Steve Kirby. Tim Rave. Deb Peters. Christine Erickson. Lee Schoenbeck. Joel Dykstra. Dave Knudson. Corey Brown. ..and the list of current and former elected Republican officials goes on and on.
The takeaway is that Alex Jensen is just getting started in the campaign for Sioux Falls City Council against likely opponent Theresa Stehly.
And he’s already out of the gate like a freight train.
Ravnsborg’s donation is the one that stuck out to me. $1k. That’s a lot of dough.
Lots of big names.
Less than 7% was small donations of $100 or less. We know who he represents. He is going to be another rubber stamp for the elite at the expense of the working class of Sioux Falls. No thanks.
EXACTLY! just what we need…another rich squish on the city council who will ignore the constituents. hard pass!
I get the feeling this will backfire.
I love the headline of the article…”LOTS OF SMALL DONATIONS!” i guess “LOTS” to some could be 7% and to others 51+%.
When is the wine cave $900.00 a bottle fundraiser for Alex? I am having a MadDog “MD” 20-20 fundraiser for Theresa at Boon’s Farm. Ya all come now, ya hear. $6.00 a head.
Smells SWAMPY.
No. No thanks. Nope.
Sorry forgot to post my name to the swamp video.
Funny how some people try to leverage Trump’s coalition and success without comprehending anything about it.
Without going into detail, “The Swamp” refers to the culture of Washington DC bureaucracies which are not subordinate to elected officials and have an entitled, above-the-law mentality.
It does not mean “Guy who can raise more money than me for elective office”,
There are swamps in SD.
Exactly, Tara.
The swamp mentality is another word for the good ol boys club. Its the status quo politicians greasing each others palms so they can keep their rackets going and the grease flowing. Its why Jensen has almost all politician donors and Lederman gets paid 10k/month from the Saudis.
This argument about special favors has some merit but most projects brought through are financed through banks. Mayors especially Mike Huether was very known to use his power to discourage projects he didn’t support. Mike types are the worst type of politicians. TIF is used properly can be used to encourage and reinvigorate deteriorating areas. These tools are good things and do cause economic development and upgrades to infrastructure.