What on earth? As bad as things are, this might be the most messed up thing I’ve heard, and I go looking for stories of the off-beat.
In Aberdeen, someone may have hired a private investigator to call a councilwoman’s babysitter, asking about her kids, regarding “city council matters.”
In a printed statement distributed to the council Monday at the end of the regular meeting, Langer said she was told on May 9 by her former babysitter that the care provider was contacted by a private investigator.
“The questions ranged from when they were with adults, to whom they are with and where. (The babysitter) was told this information was being gathered for potential city council matters,” Langer’s statement read.
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The issue is the latest conflict within the council. In recent weeks, campaign material issued by Andy Schaunaman that claimed that Aberdeen was just “one vote” from hiring a “liberal city manager” sparked controversy.
This literally might be one of the worst things I’ve read about in a long time.
I don’t care if it involves a Republican, Democrat, or other political affiliation. If you’re so messed up, you send a private investigator out to ask about an elected officials kids over “city council matters,” the problem might be with you, and you belong nowhere near politics. Because you’re a pretty short step away from being a stalker.
South Dakota state politics is an absolute dumpster fire at the moment.
Is Bill Janklow back? Wasn’t Lorin Pankratz his PI? Or is that just rumor?
Either way it’s nice to see Wild Bill is back.
This is like Little House on the Prairie. So much drama in a small town.
It is Republicans though right?
Yup.
Eating each other at this point.
Remnants of the “Heidelberger Effect?”
Touts being Catholic with strong Christian Conservative values. This young man should focus on working towards getting the help HE needs including recovery.
Not sure if District 3 and Aberdeen could sink further with a few more extremists running. As mentioned above Heidelberger and his toxic blog did have a negative effect and helped drive many reasonable qualified potential volunteers and candidates away. As a former SDDP Executive Director mentioned during session in Pierre Heidelberger and his blog have not helped their efforts. That was an understatement.
So Cory is responsible for infighting within the Republican Party? STFU.
No, he is responsible for destroying the BCDP which led far right wingers out of the woods.
Exactly DR! Had this been a more competitive environment the nutjobs would never have gained any traction.
The only thing holding back right wing wack jobs is Democrats? That’s…an interesting theory.
I don’t think it was Mr. H that destroyed the democrat party, it was the out-of-state name-callers who blog with him who poisoned his elections and turned Aberdeen into Whackadoodleton.
Mr. Novstrup, the elder, is one of the few sane ones left.
You’re joking calling “Elder Novstrup” sane…right?!
He’s currently running a campaign against a 29 year old newcomer; a well educated female candidate, on the only precipice of berating her because she changed political parties, once…which he himself has done. So, sane….no. Hypocrite, more likely. He’s handing out pitch forks because he’s been a Republican (sometimes) longer than this young lady’s been alive, and she didn’t register as a Republican the day she was born – so she’s clearly a democrat trying to infiltrate the holy land…
Yeah. You’re right. He’s totally sane. (Insert eye roll, here…) definition of (dumb) extremist.
The entire climate of people like Al Novstrup and his tactics of control in Aberdeen, and in Pierre is why it’s hard to get good people to run for office.
Al sees himself as a (mob) boss, who seeks control and “his people” in at all levels of government, so he can somehow run municipal, county and legislative works as a puppet show.
Case in point the little “tour” his chosen 10 Republican candidates made around Aberdeen yesterday. Candidates for city council on up the ballot – he literally told people: these are the candidates you need to elect or Aberdeen will burn.
Most notably his disgusting antics aided by the joke that is the Brown Co Republican Women, at their horrendously unprofessional luncheon-make-shift “candidate forum”; where Al thought it appropriate to ask prepared and staged, direct questions to his opponent – at one point intentionally making her cry, when the topic of the broken home she grew up in, came up. Honorable, Senator…
The best first step Aberdeen could take would be to vote the entire “D3 team” to the retirement home, all three of them!
THIS….ALL OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!
O-nonymous, you deserve a crown, b/c you are the king(or queen) of the internet today!
The “D3” team does need to be replaced and the former running for Brown County Commission now should not be elected. They are the worst delegation ever! Was this candidate forum video taped and posted so we can all watch this unprofessional sham?
If Rachel Dix can’t take the heat perhaps she should get out of the kitchen.
Its not that she can’t stand the heat. I truly believe she can.
What I truly believe is it will kill Al to lose to a woman. In his mind, they are to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen making sure his supper is ready for him when he comes home.
June 7th cannot come soon enough
Where’s your evidence that Al thinks that?
The Brown County Republican board needs to be replaced.
Pretty sure they don’t
What does this have to do with the board?
I’ve worked with them on a few different events (county counterparts) and have the utmost respect for the members of their exec board. Brown county hasn’t been Red that long, but they work hard to ensure it stays that way. That seems like misplaced aggression. They go the extra mile
No proxy servers, same as always.
Creepy. The kind of information a kidnapper would need if planning a criminal act.