Hot off of my e-mail.. – PP
Dear Friends,
A lot has happened since my last message to you two weeks ago. You know you have been traveling a lot when the gas station attendants in faraway places know you by name when you walk in in the middle of the night! Since I last wrote you I have traveled over 3,700 miles across our great state!
I spoke at the Sheriff’s conference in Deadwood to the hardworking men and women of law enforcement and then traveled to all five Lincoln Day Dinners in Watertown, Aberdeen, Brookings, Spearfish, and Rapid City. Some people have asked how I can drive all day, go to an event or two and then drive back all night. Well, in each place I have so many friends who treat me like family and I look forward to seeing them. Like our President, all of you give me energy, so I try to be high energy in return.
As you know, last year I fought a number of ballot issues, and while together we beat most of them, a number of them are coming again, which are bad for our state. As I travel around this year, I speak about how we need to encourage people not to sign the petitions to “just let it on the ballot.” Remember, DON’T SIGN IT!
The first two ballot issues I have spoken out against are MEDICAL MARIJUANA and RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA. What other drug seeks to fit into both of these categories at the same time? Next, Rick Weiland is at it again and now is bringing a Constitutional Amendment Version of IM 22. He again seeks to limit your first amendment rights through the ballot measure process. Last year, millions of dollars poured in to support the measures he wanted passed, so let’s encourage people DON’T SIGN IT! All 3 of these measures need to be defeated!
In order to continue the momentum I am building to become South Dakota’s next Attorney General, I need your help. Please consider contributing today to my campaign and allowing me the opportunity to continue to meet with voters. I encourage you to go online to donate here. Please let me know if you are interested in discussing your financial support by phone, I would be happy to give you a call to give you more details.
You can follow my campaign on Facebook and Twitter or check out my website.
Thank you all for your continued support and prayers!
Best,
Jason Ravnsborg
Candidate for South Dakota Attorney General
Ugh. And there’s that God-awful campaign logo again. Can we please just nuke it from orbit? It’s the only way to be sure.
Do you hate Mount Rushmore or something? What makes you think you are the judge of what is aesthetically pleasing?
If that’s your best shot, consider yourself as having lost, Stace!
Nelson posts under his own name all the time over on Dakota Free Press and has made it clear he isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade on the radio or on the legislative floor.
Why is it people then claim every anonymous comment is Stace Nelson?
Starting to creep off topic…
I have no problem with Mount Rushmore itself. I do have a problem when it’s reversed on a dark background. It’s more than just off-putting, it claws at my lizard brain sending that small part of me running back into the cave in fear of this unnatural abomination. Seriously. Just look at the faces in that “logo” for awhile. Stare into Washinton’s eyes and tell me its not disconcerting.
Candidates are always mindful of image and message, and if your image and message is that you’re unable to notice that shadows are DARK, that doesn’t bode well for what you’ll likely ignore once in office.
I love hearing these updates. It’s nice to see someone working hard and taking the time to meet with so many people and be active. Keep up the good work Jason!
I’m not sure why everyone doesn’t do them. They’re a pretty cheap and convenient way to people know you’re active. I’m happy to put them up.
They are a good way to keep you name in front of people. My guess is most folks may not be doing them as we are over a year away from convention and will start doing them closer in so that they are fresh and don’t get old and lastly because they are campaigning with more than full times jobs. I suppose they could get someone to ghost write them.
I appreciate all of Jason’s hard work campaigning Statewide & fighting these horrible ballot measures.
Plus I believe our party needs some young hard-working people like Jason, Dusty, Josh Haeder, etc
He doesn’t have a full time job.
Really? Because you can get to the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Army Reserve on 10-15 hrs a week? Because you only need part time hours to be a partner in a law firm? Because you hang out with him in the unemployment line? Tell us how you know these things O’ wise anonymous poster!
Lt. Colonel in the Army Reserve but yet he flew A-10 Warthogs on ground support missions busting up Iraqi Tanks and was a transportation officer. Did the Army have a special air wing or did he serve in the USAF also during the Iraq War? Regardless it shows he is invaluable to our military fighting for freedom driving trucks and protecting our ground forces from above.
Heck why is he running for AG? He should be a JAG officer and serve to retirement.
Where do you get that he flew a A-10 Warthog, because of an old picture? Never once have I read in any bio that he claimed this. Seems like you are just trying to pick on him because you have nothing better to do.
I was in the Army and LTC is not automatic, you have to put in a lot of time to make it. Not just doing a good job at all the positions at all the different ranks but a lot of classes as well. Additionally, I read he took over a Battalion command. That is not automatic either. There is a selection process for that.
And he is doing all of this while being a partner at a law firm. http://www.americanbar.org/publications/law_practice_home/law_practice_archive/lpm_magazine_articles_v33_is5_an19.html
-50-60 hrs a week. I wonder how many people on this site put that many hours in?
When Jason’s first campaign site came up during his senate run there was a photo of him in front of an A-10 Warthog with aviator glasses on and if I remember correctly a flight suit. It gave the impression to many that he flew A-10s over in Iraq. Later I find out that he was a transportation officer. Did he try to somehow steal some glory and make his service look better? I served in a branch of the military too and Quartermastered at Ft. Lee, VA during the Reagan years. There is absolutely no shame in whatever your job was in the military. None! Each role is extremely important and an army cannot function without supply and transportation units and they will be targeted if possible. A cook or what ever job it is I would be grateful to serve with.
Why no disclaimer regarding the A-10s? Why were those photos even on his campaign site when he ran for US Senate? It turned others off that had experience in the military. That would be something you share with friends or family not have on a campaign site.
That would be like me running for office and my campaign photo shows me wearing an Army Ranger badge with the beret but I never went to Ranger School, qualified or served as a Ranger or even Airborne.
Anon Jr.,
You nailed it. There is something odd about the innuendo attacks against this guy. Somebody is afraid of him.