If you noticed in the right hand RSS feed column, Gordon Howie used his crayons this morning and is slobbering over Annette Bosworth by grabbing pictures off of her facebook page and elsewhere to try to convince people that we should have sympathy for her.
Why? Well, because she’s a mom and doctor, or course. Albeit, a mom and doctor facing around twenty or so felony charges.
So, why is Gordon investing so much effort to defend an accused felon?
As has been orchestrated since her arrest last year (wearing pearls, with publicist in tow), the continued laments of Gordon in Defense of Bosworth would appear to be just another piece in some weird pre-trial publicity plan of team boz where her allies attack the prosecutor, discredit the witnesses against her, and try to portray her sympathetically to the Hughes County jury pool.
The common thread seems to be that both Team Bosworth and Howie share(d) the services of former sado/masochism pornography photographer Lee Stranahan. Bosworth has used Stranahan for publicity since slightly before her arrest, with Stranahan also acting as spokesman for her husband, Chad Haber in his laughable race for Atty General as a Libertarian. At the same time, Stranahan also did video and other work with Howie in his latest failed campaign .
The Annette Bosworth fraud trial is currently scheduled to begin on May 18th with jury selection, and testimony commencing about May 20th if everything takes place on schedule.
With that day drawing ever closer, it’s interesting to note that Stranahan has returned to SD, as noted by those observing his presence at the conservatives lunch last week.
Are we guessing when I argue that he’s traveled back to the state to be on-site for more on the weird Bosworth three pronged pre-trial publicity strategy? (Step up the rhetoric attacking Marty Jackley, Attack witnesses, and Portray Annette in a favorable light). I’m not so sure.
Could I be wrong about that? Sure. It’s entirely possible.
But let’s see how many manufactured stories we see pushed in the next thirty days.
Regardless of whether any publicity plan exists in the minds of the players or not, with the damning mountain of evidence against her, much of it written with her own hand, in about 30 days it could be just a matter of going through the motions for a conviction to take place.
And the circus might finally leave town.
Just get it over with.
The kind and beloved people of South Dakota are prone to issuing undue and often unearned respect to Doctors, police officers, teachers and ministers. The frequent incidences of misconduct by these professions are too often overlooked, condoned and swept under the rug creating a “culture of disrespect and self-privilege” by some in these positions of public trust. Expecting more and tolerating less misconduct from them is proper.
Can Bosworth run for office again if she has a felony?
All that comes to my mind on this is this: Integrity is doing the right thing when no one is looking. Doing the wrong thing when everyone is looking expecting to get away with it is called deranged.
Mr. Hoffman is right. The young doctor is insaner than most.
I paid my $50 fine to the Secretary of State for a one day late campaign finance report. A little bird told me the highest fine went to Chad Haber …. $3000.
Haven’t heard if he paid it.
Rep. Hickey, Does that fine get paid to the SOS office or to the SD general fund?
I am baffled by Mr. Howie’s position on this. Is it that he mistakenly empathizes with her because he was attacked so harshly after opposing the establishment when he ran? What Bosworth did in the raffle scams, the knowingly swearing to petitions she knew she didn’t collect, those are along the same unethical lines of why she was disciplined by the Medical Board. It isn’t a case of her being picked on, its a case of her being unethical and committing crimes.
“I am baffled by Mr. Howie’s position on this. Is it that he mistakenly empathizes with her because he was attacked so harshly after opposing the establishment when he ran?”
Part of the problem is simply a lack of critical thinking skills on Gordon’s part (which unfortunately tends to discredit the Bible he professes to defend), but the fact that many of Bosworth’s leading adversaries have published vicious personal smears against Gordon in the past probably does play a significant role in prejudicing his views.
Memory may fail me here but I think my check was made out to the SOS.
With Bosworth’s trial coming up Pornahan won’t be going back home to Texas for a while. This trial will be competing for sweeps week or month. Meanwhile SD Libertarian Party is trying to boot this Texas resident Pornahan from their executive committee.
I actually empathize. I’ve been in the same situation. Although the Libertarians should have been wise to him. So, perhaps not a lot of sympathy.