Rounds for Senate is noting $282,756.50 raised during the first quarter, against $206,297.49 spent. Leaving the first term US Senator $1,889,290.67 cash on hand in his committee (not counting joint groups, etc.) to get through the next few months.
…George Wallace, whose slogan, “Stand Up for America!” barely hid his real agenda: to roll back the clock on racial progress.
Yeah. If I was Theresa, I don’t know if I would be adopting the slogan of one of the Country’s last segregationist presidential candidates as my own. Just sayin’.
From KELOland News, the Republican and Democrat Senate Caucuses have appointed a committee to look into allegations of misconduct that were made against two of the leaders of the State Senate:
Political party caucuses have chosen nine members of the state Senate to investigate a complaint that two top Republican senators were intoxicated while conducting official business at the Capitol during the final working day of the 2020 session of the South Dakota Legislature.
and..
The Executive Board set a June 30 deadline for the investigative panel to submit its report. The board is scheduled to meet by teleconference at 10 a.m. CT Monday, April 20. An agenda hadn’t been posted as of 9 a.m. CT Wednesday.
Scyller Borglum for US Senate has filed her latest FEC report for activity in the first quarter of the year. $9,661.71 raised. $4,972.54 spent, $12,908.55 cash on hand, against a $12,000.00 loan.
Borglum is fighting against the same challenges that every challenger campaign faces – scaling up – and finding a way to bring in the revenue necessary to conduct campaign activities at a statewide scale.
For being the Democrat challenger to a Republican incumbent, Ahlers is not showing that the Democrat party has marshaled around him as their nominee. In fact, it’s kind of the opposite. With former State Democrat Party Communications director Aaron Matson “consulting” for him, it’s hard to see that Ahlers is doing anything but sending out a lot of Constant Contact e-mails.
$22,124.17 raised. $3620.62 spent. $35,989.28 cash on hand.
Liz Marty May might want to consider changing her name to Liz “Martyr” May, because she fell on her sword in her first quarter of fundraising. $34,211.11 raised. A $5000 personal loan. And $27,716.36 spent in her first quarter.
Of that cash spent, over $11,000 went to her Texas based consultant, Jim McIntosh, and another $6000 went to a Texas based contract staff member, a Victoria Peltier. Then, another $10k spent on a California based media production company.
Literally, every dime Liz May spent went towards out of state consultants and employees. But she wasn’t done spending. Because Liz is carrying $9,990.24 in outstanding debt, half of which is a loan to herself.
However, there is bright spot here. As Liz actually spent $266.25 in South Dakota. So there’s that.
So she got a few more signatures than Dusty? I’m sure that’s quite the comfort to her tonight.
Republican Candidate Liz Marty May’s grassroots effort paid off big time. Since her campaign kick-off announcement on February 1, she and her army of 83+ volunteers collected 2,796 valid petition signatures.
That is 1,066 more than the required amount, and 776 more than Incumbent Dusty Johnson collected.
“I am blown away by the tremendous amount of support my campaign has received. This is probably the biggest grassroots movement that South Dakota has seen in a long time. Our volunteers worked day and night collecting signatures. You know it’s a powerful movement when we exceed the required amount of signatures amidst a health pandemic,” says May.
Since Coronavirus, campaigns have had to pivot their strategy to reach voters. The Liz Marty May campaign is relying heavily on good ole’ fashion grassroots with a dose of digital technology to ensure voters’ voices are heard on June 2nd.
“I’m under Martial Law on the reservation, we can’t leave. We’ve made adjustments and are now working smarter. South Dakotans’ are hurting financially, especially the ag community. We aren’t counting on out-fundraising Dusty Johnson’s incumbent war chest, we are counting on our powerful grassroots movement. Our petition numbers don’t lie. The conservative base is fired up. The ranchers are fired up. And those tired of the status quo are fired up. Coronavirus changes a lot, but not that,” states May.
In light of Coronavirus, the SD Secretary of State will be mailing absentee ballot applications to every registered voter between April 17-24. Voters are encouraged to complete their application as soon as possible to allow for delivery and processing times. Once an application is verified by the county auditor, a ballot will be mailed to the voter.
Liz Marty May is a proud 4th generation South Dakotan, a successful small business owner and a trusted rancher. She is running for Congress for the ranchers seeking relief from unfair trade practices, for the farmers who feed the world, for the small businesses trying to turn a profit, and for our future generations.
‘Having been involved in the negotiations, to put it mildly, the number that OPEC+ is looking to cut is 20 Million Barrels a day, not the 10 Million that is generally being reported. If anything near this happens, and the World gets back to business from the Covid 19 …’
Oil production is reportedly getting ready to be slashed internationally as noted by President Trump, and MarketWatch:
President Donald Trump on Monday via Twitter is saying that a historic weekend deal struck between OPEC and some of the biggest oil producers on the planet could be more substantial than what has been announced.
The president’s tweet suggests that a global output cut by 9.7 million barrels a day struck by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and the U.S. could be doubled. That 20 million figure would be closer to what commodity experts say is required to sop up excess crude swirling in the market and address a shock to demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The weekend deal ends a month-long price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia that flooded the world with unneeded crude and amplified a meltdown in oil prices, but, according to critics, would only go partway toward stabilizing oil prices, which have seen a double-whammy from the Saudi-Russian price war and the pandemic.
Read it all here. And it’s not just in Saudi Arabia and Russia where they’re looking at cutting production – they’re doing it in Texas as well:
There’s plenty of oil to go around these days and lower prices at the pump, thanks to the shrinking demand caused by the coronavirus outbreak and Saudi Arabia flooding the market with cheap oil.
Good news for drivers, but bad news for Texas oil producers.
That’s why the Railroad Commission of Texas – the state agency that regulates oil and gas production – is looking into possibly forcing the industry in Texas to cut back production in order to reduce oil inventories. That would lower the surplus and raise income for drillers.
Thune Releases Second U.S. Government Video Lesson: How a Bill Becomes a Law
“I thought since we were going to continue to do remote learning, we’d pick up on our government class. I thought what I’d do is give you a little example of a bill that we passed recently – of how a bill becomes a law.”
Click here or on the image above to watch the video.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today released his second U.S. government video lesson in which he gives a brief overview of how a bill becomes a law. Thune used his TRACED Act, a law to combat illegal robocallers, as an example. Thune previously released a video lesson in which he gave a brief overview of how the federal government works.
“By now, we all know that you won’t be returning to the classroom for the balance of this school year, and I’m very sorry and disappointed to hear that. I know this can be a wonderful time of the year, when the spring season rolls around. You’ve got spring sports, music recitals, graduation receptions, graduation ceremonies, and all those sorts of things. All I want to tell you is that I feel your pain, and I just appreciate what you guys are having to put up with and having to go through.
“As I’ve experienced in my lifetime, when I go through adversity, oftentimes it strengthens my faith and gives me a greater appreciation for my family and friends, and I hope that somewhere down the road as you look back on this experience, there will be some things that you have learned from and some things that you have grown from as a result of it.
“I thought since we were going to continue to do remote learning, we’d pick up on our government class. I thought what I’d do is give you a little example of a bill that we passed recently – of how a bill becomes a law.”
Thune Releases Second U.S. Government Video Lesson: How a Bill Becomes a Law