There a long article at South Dakota News Watch today about the war between Secretary of State Monae Johnson and her former campaign team, Rick & Gretchen Weible, after the Secretary of State disassociated herself from the Weible’s after the last election.
And it also has extensive reporting on Rick Weible’s search for election fraud in South Dakota, whether it exists or not.
He said that he initially saw himself as a potential candidate to challenge incumbent Secretary of State Steve Barnett at the 2022 state GOP convention.
Then Weible and his wife, Gretchen, met Monae Johnson, a more palatable nominee because she previously worked in the secretary of state’s office. Johnson, who declared her candidacy in February 2022, had publicly expressed doubts about the validity of the 2020 election, refusing to acknowledge President Joe Biden’s win over former President Donald Trump.
The Weibles, who moved to South Dakota from Minnesota as “tax refugees” in 2018, viewed Johnson as someone who could help them reform the system from within.
and..
“We found out her campaign was a complete fraud,” said Weible, who runs a cyber security business called D3Defense in Brookings. “She didn’t have a campaign speech, so I had to write one for her. She didn’t have room reservations. She had no T-shirts, no signs, no buttons. She wasn’t even totally sure of the rules of the convention.”
Johnson declined an interview request with News Watch for this story. In response to a question about Weible, state elections director Rachel Soulek sent a statement that the secretary of state’s office is “constantly combatting misinformation and disinformation regarding elections.”
Despite Rick proclaiming in his advertising that he’s a “South Dakota Hero,” the article refers to him as a “Former small-town Minnesota mayor.”
Check it out at SD News Watch. It’s an interesting read.
Johnson’s lack of judgment is alarming. That said Rick Weibel had little to do with her winning or losing. He’s a moron and he takes credit when credit isn’t deserved by him.
The guy can’t even organize his socks.
T shirts and campaign buttons. – that wins campaigns you know.
He needs to go back to MInnesota, oh wait – they don’t want him. He has infiltrated the local party with his buddies. No one has the guts in the party to tell him to take a hike. This is not the behavior, nor principles of the real Republican party.
He’s desperately trying to in Minnesota. He is working behind the scenes for a grifter group in the State that works to unseat Republicans for their own Republicans/Libertarians.
Action for Liberty? There are a few of them. Action for Liberty are the primary troublemakers who are toxic in St. Paul has claimed a few seats including a state senate seat. They are all about attacking and running against Republicans along with grifting rather than governing.
They are fringe Libertarian and Constitutional Party activists that gained no traction building their own parties so they exploited COVID to help sow discontent, gained traction and infiltrated MNGOP units. The election was not stolen in MN. The MNGOP train filled with these wackos ran the train off the trestle and is still plunging into a canyon. The party is broke. I feel bad for the solid policy focused legislators and other party members having to deal with this hoping they will not give up. If they quit the wackos will move in and the DFL will be unchallenged with nothing to modify, moderate or stop really bad bills from becoming law.
The BatShit Crazy Party will continue to evangelize and take over convention politics as long as we allow them to do so. They are more motivated than most normal people who are working, tending to cattle, and/or running kids. They can take out Fiegen at next convention and maybe I’m ok with that. But before 2026, we better fix the nomination process or we risk letting Weible and others like him pick our candidates.
It’s fine as is. Rick never had any influence at convention and he never will.
Trump will get 60% plus of the primary vote. Primaries are going the same way as convention and that’s because the party is changing drastically.
we’ll see.
Rick should pay attention to his own issues. He was an elected board member of the Republican Party of Minnesota when they spent their way into massive debt in 2010. A debt that is still not paid off and has hampered GOP efforts for over a decade in the State. That’s Rick’s Minneota legacy.
He throws out the word fraud like candy at a parade. In disarray, unorganized, failing; describes what he saw. Instead, he throws out the word fraud. If he says there is election fraud he must mean he doesn’t like the results.
Minnesota has a problem. I found that out in 2002 when I talked to my son, who was in Bloomington on election night, and found out he had not voted absentee in South Dakota. Gave him an earful about how he should have voted. So he went to the nearest polling place there, in a car with SD plates, was allowed to register to vote (with a SD drivers license) and cast a ballot. That was when I realized Minnesota doesn’t care who votes in their elections. I learned from other Minnesotans that not only do they allow same day voter registration, they allow a registered voter to vouch for as many as 4 unregistered voters with no identification on them. They don’t care if these voters are citizens or even residents, as long as they are accompanied by a registered voter who will vouch for them.
Minnesota is where Batshit Crazy thrives. I can see why somebody who had lived there might think elections are fraudulent everywhere.
Most of this is factual. Your son would have had to have brought some official paperwork, such as a utility bill with his name at it at the address he claimed to live at, to register on the same day. Just an FYI.
https://dakotawarcollege.com/rick-weibel-files-to-run-for-house-in-d8/