Author: @SoDakCampaigns

From the Argus Leader, Governor Kristi Noem he is requesting the state house of representatives censure former speaker of the House Steve Haugaard for some misogynistic language he used on the house floor today:

Noem Thursday evening formally called for the House to censure the former South Dakota House Speaker for the remark.

“I am disappointed and appalled by the inappropriate and offensive language used today on the House floor by Rep. Haugaard,” Noem said in a statement issued by her re-election campaign. I’m calling on the Speaker and the House to take a stand against this irresponsible and abusive behavior by formally reprimanding and censuring Mr. Haugaard.”

Read the entire story here.

After State Democrats rolled their Congressional candidate under the bus for his misogynistic and seriously off base Twitter account earlier today, Representative Haugaard should have had a clue that this was not the thing to do.

Especially since the impression is already there, whether correct or not, that he might tend towards being a bit patriarchal when it comes to women.

From earlier today:

Email from short term Congressional candidate Ryan Ryder
I am withdrawing my candidacy for US House of Representatives.
While tweets I have made in the past were a poor attempt at sarcastic humor, I recognize that they appear to cross a line.

— Jerry Oster (@570WNAXNEWS) March 3, 2022

From an hour ago:

A line was crossed on the house floor today. In a floor speech, Rep. Haugaard called a woman w/a drug addiction a “run out whore”. There is absolutely no room for misogyny and aggression against women in our state legislature—and I’m deeply disappointed he was not gaveled down.

— Representative Erin Healy (@RepErinHealy) March 3, 2022

While apologizing, he said the story was a personal one told to him by someone he knows, and that’s how she described herself to him. Still, he said he should’ve known to pick different words to relay that story

— Joe Sneve (@Argus_Joe) March 3, 2022

Jesus wept. Are some people just not paying attention?

I was just noting that now former Democrat Congressional Candidate Ryan Ryder, with his string of tweets, didn’t even manage to hang on as long as former Democrat Congressional Candidate Ellee Spawn!

Statement from the South Dakota Democratic Party on Ryan Ryder

Sioux Falls, SD – At the request of the South Dakota Democratic Party, Ryan Ryder is withdrawing his candidacy for U.S. House of Representatives.

“The South Dakota Democratic Party has determined it is not appropriate for Mr. Ryder to continue in this race and requested that he end his candidacy, which he has agreed to,” said Executive Director Berk Ehrmantraut. 

“These statements from Mr. Ryder do not live up to the values of the South Dakota Democratic Party, and we do not support this type of language,” said SDDP Chair Randy Seiler.

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From Austin Goss @ Dakota News Now, Congressional Candidate Democrat Ryan Ryder is no longer a Congressional Candidate:

Ryan Ryder is dropping out of the race for South Dakota’s lone congressional seat. Here’s a statement: pic.twitter.com/0q68lhd0RY

— Austin Goss (@AustinGossSD) March 3, 2022

I suspect someone asked him how many tweets there were, and he had to admit a lot.

Probably for the best.

I do notice he is apologizing to Democrats “and to anyone else for whom these tweets reflected badly.” As opposed to apologizing for intimating that people he didn’t like should die from covid, or the other creepy stuff he said.

With a non-apology apology like this, he should not be running for anything.

I had an update on Senate Bill 175 late last night, that after 90 minutes of testimony into the evening, House Appropriators decided to push off a decision on Senate Bill 175 until today.

What is being speculated? There is thought that like many worthwhile and supported projects this session, the House Appropriators are going to fight it, and may even try to kill it.  Even though the bill is supported by the Shooting Sports Association, National Rifle Association, etc.

It would be nice if it was supported. But I’m not holding my breath at this point.

Stay tuned as we continue to monitor this legislation.

In case you might be trying to reach me through my typical e-mail, my mail server host seems to be down hard at the moment.

Drop me a call or feel free to use my alternate e-mail address.

Democrat Congressional candidate Ryan Ryder was all set to make a big announcement splash today.. and instead ended up being outed as just another creep on twitter throwing trash, who also happened to be having the worst candidate rollout in recent South Dakota History.

As posted on his website, he started out claiming that he was going to be a different type of candidate. And in fact actually says “Why am I running for Congress? Let me be clear up front that I’m not interested in personal attacks or mudslinging.”

But.. literally at the same time as his announcement, it came out that this 47 year old Rapid City attorney is also a creepy twitter troll:

But just hours after his announcement, concerns were raised about several questionable tweets from Ryder’s personal Twitter account.

and..

While many are relatively minute, others are far more controversial.

In one, Ryder suggests that he should make an animated video of Johnson’s family getting killed.

Or in another, Ryder makes jokes about performing sexual acts to a picture of Governor Kristi Noem.

Read it all here.

And as of tonight on Dakota News Now, Ryder’s exploits being a not-as-anonymous-as-he-thought douche bag on twitter ended up not just overshadowing his campaign announcement, but completely eclipsing and destroying the narrative he was trying to sell, that he’s “not interested in personal attacks or mudslinging.”  Because that seems to be all he’s done on twitter for the last few years.

Ryder’s biggest problem is not an uncommon one among candidates, as I’ve talked about it several times, where candidates failed to police their social media.

Shortly before the press release went out from South Dakota Democrats this morning, Ryder took down this twitter account..

But considering he filed his FEC forms 5 days ago, I can tell you that this was 5 days too long.

Here’s how his twitter page looked before he nuked it this morning. And let me tell you – he was a very, very active tweeter.

Here Democrat Congressional Candidate Ryan Ryder implies that Kristi Noem voters dying of COVID might be good.

Here Democrat Congressional Candidate Ryan Ryder says Rush Limbaugh dying of cancer is funny.

Here Ryan Ryder thinks Joseph Boever dead on the side of the road is a good subject for what he termed his “shock jock” humor to Dakota News Now.

And it goes on, and on, and on.

I’m not sure what’s more amazing – that a 47 year old attorney acts like a 15 year old on twitter, or that the state Democrat Party is actually continuing to endorse him as their candidate.

Especially when he makes statements like this:

Democrat Congressional Ryan Ryder on Dusty Johnson: “It’s too bad that the Trump rioters you continue to support didn’t get you that day.”

The Democrat Candidate for Congress’ first reaction to January 6th was to wish harm on Congressman Dusty Johnson that day. As endorsed by the South Dakota Democrat Party. 

Stay tuned for more.

Much, Much more.

Does someone need their heads examined?

Yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee heard companion measures SB 54 and SB 130, two bills taken together which would appropriate funds for the Dakota State University Cyber Program Expansion to double the number of graduates in their cyber security program, and to authorize the Board of Regents to acquire property, contract for the design and construction of the Dakota State University Applied Research Lab.

The 10,000 foot view is that they want to create an Applied Research Lab in Cyber Security in Sioux Falls through a public/private partnership, which would create 4-500 jobs averaging at $100,000 salaries.

That’s $100,000 salaries IN South Dakota. And they want to double the number of South Dakota graduates DSU can feed into the program, so they can hire them, and keep them in state. They have more demand than they can fill now, much less to feed a major program such as this. So it’s vitally important for them to grow.

High tech jobs – the kind of jobs that graduates are looking for in the field of cybersecurity. They would help counteract the kind of warfare being waged in part in the Ukraine today, should those efforts be pointed against America now or at a future date.

Literally, this is the kind of development communities dream about.

So what did the brain trust in House Appropriations choose to do?

Senate Bill 54 to appropriate funds for the Dakota State University Cyber Program Expansion. House Appropriations cut the funding to $1 on a motion by Tina Mulally.  After that, they begrudgingly passed it 8-1, with Taffy Howard the lone vote no.

Senate Bill 130 to authorize the Board of Regents to acquire property, contract for the design and construction of the Dakota State University Applied Research Lab to make an appropriation therefor, and to declare an emergency.  That passed 6-3.

Who voted against creating 4-500 jobs paying an average of $100,000 in the Sioux Falls area?  Liz May was a NO. Sioux Falls Gubernatorial wannabe Steve Haugaard voted NO to 500 jobs.

And once again proving herself to be literally the most doltish legislator in Pierre, Taffy Howard STILL voted no. Taffy Howard continued a trend of voting anything that benefits South Dakota and voted against 500 high paying South Dakota jobs.

For crying out loud, even Tina Mulally – who barely generates enough electricity to ambulate – and called to cut the funding to $1 – voted to pass it, but Taffy still doesn’t get it.

It’s like there’s some mental block for accomplishing anything. Create a bioprocessing facility for the School of Mines and SDSU? Taffy votes no. Infrastructure needs for the new B21 mission at Ellsworth? Taffy votes no. Freedom Scholarships. Big no vote there as well.

Good gosh. This is one of those projects where there was no opposition, people lining up to donate money and land to make it happen, and all they’re asking is for State Government to be a part of the solution at a time when the money is there for a massive expansion of jobs, the tax base, and keeping South Dakota kids in South Dakota.

You can lead a horse to water. But you can’t make them think. As Representative Howard demonstrated once again.