Stace Nelson slowly sliding out of exile, setting sights a little lower, and that pesky robocall lawsuit is still lingering.
This afternoon, I was sitting at my desk configuring my Raspberry Pi 2 for a project I thought could have some potential political applications. And then my phone pops up with a message:
@AFPSD Congrats! Not sure how you got @SoDakCampaigns to go against tax & spend crowd, but that is as impressive as getting the tax stopped!
— Stace Nelson (@RepStaceNelson) March 7, 2015
So, after a note praising Democrats on the now defunct Liberal Democrat website Madville Times, Stace Nelson’s next step as he decides to further venture out of his self-imposed exile is to poke at me on Twitter? Really?
*Sigh* Why am I not thinking we’re getting back the likeable pre-2014 Stace, but the post 2013 attack-dog Stace who turned people off with a highly negative campaign? I couldn’t resist just letting it go, so I replied. And received an even odder response:
@SoDakCampaigns @AFPSD “I must stand with anybody that stands right, & stand with him while he is right, & part w/ him when he goes wrong.” — Stace Nelson (@RepStaceNelson) March 7, 2015
I bring up Rick Weiland, and he replies with a quote about how he has to “stand with anybody who stands right?”
Yep. 2014 Stace is definitely the one poking his nose out of the burrow.
And that reminded me about the “Draft Stace Nelson for District 19 State Senate” effort that popped up about three weeks ago on facebook, as the second item of Stace Nelson news for the day:
Well, if you go visit the page today – there have been some big changes in three weeks:
Since we last noted it, the “Draft Stace” page has picked up “19 likes,” bringing it from 20 to 39. And as opposed to running Stace specifically for State Senate… Well, the bar is now being set a little lower, and instead of instigating a primary against Senator Bill Van Gerpen, they’re just trying to draft him for District 19 State Legislature in hopes of picking up one of the House seats.
And it must be a Stace Nelson lazy Saturday news day, as completing our troika is another news item that passed my way.
I’m told this afternoon that the South Dakota Supreme Court that the long, long lingering Daniel Willard supreme court appeal of his robocall conviction has officially been dismissed… because he failed to prosecute it.
What does that have to do with our erstwhile US Senate wannabe? Apparently, resolving the issue of the Willard conviction was something that was needed to allow the Rushmore PAC Civil Court case against Daniel Willard and Stace Nelson to move forward.
So, at the same time he may be drafting for the State legislature…. He may also be answering the long ago charges of playing a major part in organizing robocall attacks against the Republican leadership of the State Legislature…. particularly the one he may be hoping to rejoin.