In an article at the Argus Leader this AM where Dana Ferguson profiles several women running for office for the first time, apparently she had her anti-Republican bias glasses perched on her nose while writing it. Because of all the candidates mentioned in her article titled “Women see path for state’s first female-majority Legislature” not one was a Republican. Not one.
She profiled several Democrats, and stretched so far as to mention an independent. But a Republican? That’s apparently not in her wheelhouse.
Despite several female Republican candidates running for the legislature for the first time such as recently appointed State Rep. Marli Wiese in District 8, Tamera St. John for District 1 House, Maggie Sutton in Senate 10, Amber Mauricio in House 13, Tammy Enalls in House 25, Rebecca Reimer in House 26B, Scyller Borglum in House 32, Amanda Scott in Senate 33, Janet Jensen and Melanie Torno in House 33, or Jess Olson in House 34, apparently the Argus Leader’s phones don’t work when calling Republicans.
I’m probably missing someone, but that does give you an idea how many first time Republican women candidates are running. And how big the list of Republican candidates was that Ferguson ignored, (something you don’t get in the Argus Leader.)
Seeing the Argus’ continuous and shameless bias against Republicans and outright advocacy for Democrats just gets old. Do no editors review this stuff and say “It would balance your article if you profile a few Republicans as well?”
It would appear not.
I just hope Republican candidates remember that when it comes time to make decisions where to spend their advertising dollars.
They don’t call it the Argus Bleeder for nothing
How about noem and krebs? Two women at the top of the ticket.
Nice work Pat. It’s appreciated how you keep us informed how the Argus is so blatantly biased.
And they simply can’t understand why they’re going broke in a red state!?!?
Pretty much par for the course for Dana.
Not long ago I tweeted her a quasi/rhetorical question: “is journalism a form of activism?”
She tweeted back, “that’s an interesting perspective I’d not thought about before.”
Maybe it’s like being a fish in water. When your whole wold and all you know is water, you don’t realize you’re in it.
Same thing with liberal ideology for the people that work at the Argus.
Here’s another sad part of the story being misleading, that you can’t count until Election Day. Pretty sure Republicans will AGAIN elect more women to office, and there won’t be a story AGAIN about how the GOP elects more women than the other party??? Dang pesky facts
Noem too lee?
Lee, GOP elects more women than any other party. Is that here in South Dakota or nationally?
Here in the 5-7 zip code. Can’t speak to any place else
Argus Leader pushes Jolene for Sioux Falls mayor, too.
Isn’t a supposed rapist still on the prowl in the state cap?
Dana never did follow up or make sure he went to jail. Just allegations about a supposed rapist. Am I the only one who th in his the argus has an obligation?
classic argus lol
Ok. We know there is no modicum of fairness or honesty and it has been this way for a long time.
The question is:
Is it from sinister intent to be blatantly bigoted or is gross incompetence and stupidity?
Doesn’t need to be an either, or question.
Embrace toe power of AND
the power…
Anon 7:22 you nailed what we on the Right have that the Left does not. That being an intelligent honest and factual researcher who calls a spade a spade.
I read the story. It’s really a story about a liberal women’s group, LEAD (Leaders Engaged and Determined), and its efforts to recruit politically active women in the wake of – and in reaction against – Trump’s election. If that had been the headline, the story would have been better, or at least more coherent. Instead, the author or editor chose to make it about women candidates in SD while leaving the primary focus on LEAD and its adherents. This may be the author (writer) being sloppy, or it might be an editor taking a writer’s story and “massaging” it into something other than what it was originally intended to be.
Agree, Mr. Wyland. The hed promises way more than the story’s about. It would have been a much better rede to consider a female-majority Legislature. Instead it’s a rah-rah piece for a group that will likely fail. Yawn to that.