Author: @SoDakCampaigns

In the week or so that State Representative Taffy Howard has been a candidate for Congress, we find that Howard is already shuffling her campaign around.

In her previous filing on August 3rd, Howard had declared that Dianne Nelson of Rapid City was her treasurer. Now, 9 days later, Howard has filed an amendment to her statement of organization, declaring State Rep. Rhonda Milstead as her new campaign treasurer.

Taffy Howard F1a Amended form by Pat Powers on Scribd

We’ll let you know if that changes again next week.

Not looking good for Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium tonight after his lead investigator is now claiming he can’t prove China hacked our election.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.

and..

But Mr. Lindell’s lead cyber expert, Josh Merritt, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyberincursion by China.

and..

“We were handed a turd,” he said. “And I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond. And that’s what I think we did.”

Read it all here.

SD Woki-leaks is back at uncovering wokism in the State University system, and today drops a huge new post on Critical Race Theory instruction taking place at the University of South Dakota:

In the fall of 2020, Dr. Popova gave a talk on “systemic racism” to USD students. Her talk was part of the “Diversity and Inclusivity ECHO Series” put on by the USD School of Health Sciences. In her talk, Popova shared with students her view of the United States. According to Popova, the U.S. was directly founded on the principle of “White supremacy.” The nation itself is so racist and rotten to the core that all Americans, even “sweet,” “well-intentioned” ones, actually spread racism everywhere they go because they have been corrupted by the racist system. So, it is not enough for Americans to try to be good people and to treat one another well. Instead, we have to tear down and rebuild “the system” that Popova blames for all bad outcomes experienced by minority groups. This is not an overstatement of Popova’s position. Here is an excerpt from her talk:

The ideas that Popova presents are the core axioms of critical race theory (CRT). So, CRT is being taught to USD students.

Note that Popova does not present the ideas of CRT as hypotheses that deserve questioning, testing, or debating. That would be a different story. Universities are supposed to be places where we can debate and test out ideas.

But Popova doesn’t do that. She doesn’t teach about CRT. She teaches CRT. As holy writ. In her long talk (which closely resembles a conspiracy theory and can be viewed in its entirely here, unless USD deletes it, as it has done with other incriminating evidence), Popova delivers the ideas of CRT and Wokism as Truths for the students to passively accept. Her talk is, essentially, a sermon – one designed to stir up disdain for the United States and pave the way for student radicalism. It is pure indoctrination: The presentation of an extremely simplistic, one-sided version of history as the Absolute Truth.

For listening to Popova’s talk, USD Health Sciences students were given credits that could be used to satisfy the requirements of a health-sciences professional development program.

Read the entire post here.

I have the feeling that this one is going to get some attention, especially in light of Critical Race Theory being strongly frowned upon by the administration.

Hope the Augustana U kids all kept their masks after last Spring. Because they’re going to need them again according to the e-mail that went out today from AU president Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin to the University’s students:

“Based on CDC’s updated guidance, as Minnehaha and Lincoln counties are currently experiencing high community spread of the virus based on test positivity rates, Augustana will require everyone to wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This indoor masking protocol is effective August 16 until further notice.”

I have this strange sense of deja-vu..

It might just be a very long school year.

Apparently the Biden White House is lobbying South Dakota Legislators on Infrastructure Bill directly in an effort to drum up support for it.

A state legislator of some years just reached out to me, expressing that this is the “first time” they can remember “the White House lobbying SD legislators.”

I was surprised to see this, as Mike Lindell has been promoting his Cyber Symposium via Steve Bannon for some time now. But even Bannon appears to be left flat so far from the event being held in Sioux Falls.

Good morning.

Lindell symposium has so far left Steve Bannon unconvinced.https://t.co/UeLnsuVb4x

— The AZ – abc15 – Data Guru (@Garrett_Archer) August 11, 2021

Conservative broadcaster Steve Bannon criticized MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Wednesday for failing to prove the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.

As Lindell was kicking off the second day of his “cyber symposium,” Bannon said that the MyPillow CEO had not provided his followers with “receipts” proving the election was fraudulent.

Read it here.

A further update on who we have from South Dakota at Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium, straight from one of the sources:

Right now Dakota News Now’s Beth Warden seems to be winning at the local coverage for Pillow Guy Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium, as she’s keeping a blow by blow twitter feed of the event.

Among Senators from other states chatting about being roommates during the last legislative session, @govkristinoem is not here. Maybe this empty table is for SD politicians? The only other South Dakotan I’ve seen is a man who does car dealerships commercials @dakotanews_now pic.twitter.com/MMKGLH7me5

— Beth Warden (@bethwarden) August 10, 2021

But.. I’m not sure you could call it winning. Because winning assumes a prize at the end. When the only prize might be going home. If anything noteworthy comes up, I’ll pass it on. The event started about an hour late because of technical difficulties, noted as ‘hacking’ by event sponsors.

So far representing South Dakota officials, it only appears that State Senators Larry Zikmund & Jim Stalzer are attending.. and I thought I saw Julie Frye-Mueller.  So, there you go.

Otherwise, you can watch it at xyz.frankspeech.com yourself.

Update..  Looks like South Dakota State Rep. Kevin Jensen is also there.    But honestly, I had to turn it off when Mike Lindell started a bizarre version of “mean tweets,” reading off media stories, and yelling at the media in attendance that they were scum.

And another update.. Did I just see State Rep. Tina Mulally walk across the screen?

Looks like this is the week of Picnic events for the GOP in South Dakota.

From Facebook, Hughes & Stanley County are heading down to the river for a get-together:

and on Friday, The Brookings County Republican Summer Picnic will be at 6:00 p.m. at Hillcrest Park.

I believe you are required to bring your own chair and bologna sandwich.

Stay tuned.