Category: Lora Hubbel

Give Democrats five bucks, and run as a Democrat for the legislature.  That’s two losing propositions for Democrats, yet, the state Democrat Party is asking that of their e-mail list in their latest, awful e-mail fundraising appeal in what seems to be continuous and weekly (weakly?) rounds of begging for dollars:

From: “Ann Tornberg” <[email protected]>
Date: December 3, 2015
To: REDACTED
Subject: It starts NOW!
Reply-To: [email protected]

Day 3
Candidate Recruitment for the 2016 election starts NOW!

REDACTED,
The South Dakota Democratic Party’s dedicated staff, officers, and volunteers are making an all-out effort to recruit 105 legislative candidates for 2016. While it won’t be an easy task, fielding candidates in all 35 legislative districts must be a priority! Here are five reasons why:

1) Each time we leave GOP incumbents unchallenged, we invite them to dump significant financial support into other legislative races where they see viable Democratic competition.

2) Each time we give GOP a “free pass” in a legislative race, we give Democrats in that District absolutely no reason to show up to vote, or perhaps even worse: Democrats and Independents start to get comfortable voting for a Republican because that is their only option.

3) Voters will turn out in a Presidential Election year. The 40 year history of voting patterns in South Dakota promises that 2016 turnout will be between a 72-78%. The Mid-term elections in 2014 had a 54% voter turnout and 2010 was 52%.

4) I sincerely believe that we are at a tipping point yearning for balance in the South Dakota legislature. One party rule has led to multiple examples of corruption, cover up, unethical behavior, tragedy of the worst degree, and finally the media seems to be paying attention. This could be our time! And,

5) Recruiting 105 legislative candidates means South Dakota Democrats are serious about bringing balance to the legislature!

Won’t you help us achieve this goal? Consider running yourself, recommend great Democrats, and encourage them to run.

Contribute to our efforts today and watch your investment pay off for a generation of South Dakotans.

Donate $5
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Donate $2015

Ann Tornberg,
Chair

Paid for by the South Dakota Democratic Party. (www.sddp.org) Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.

Did they actually sling that BS with straight faces?

It’s kind of like them claiming that they have a challenger for John Thune. It’s a lot of talk. But there’s no substance behind it, as the days keep ticking away. We’re long past them coming up with a viable candidate who has the basic commodity of time to raise the millions of dollars it takes to run a US Senate Campaign.

Now, they’re even running out of time to raid the nursing homes for a candidate as they’re apt to do!

But, a couple of counter points to Ann’s plea for help.

*Yes, it’s going to be a presidential year with a big turnout. And it’s going to be a bad, bad year for Democrats in the state which is among the top two or three where President Obama is the least popular.

*The Democrats continue to try to politicize the unfortunate deaths of people for political purposes. It was lower than low when Lora Hubbel did it. It’s not going to turn out any better for Ann Tornberg trying to run her political party’s campaign efforts on people’s graves, either.

*When Tornberg claims Republicans will “dump significant financial support into other legislative races where they see viable Democrat competition,” she’s missing a big point.

There actually has to be “viable Democrat competition.”

Because that’s kind of like going Jackalope hunting. There might be legends, and samples preserved in faux taxidermy.. but try to find “viable Democrat competition.”  You can look all darn day, and you aren’t going to find any.  And the new monthly figures from the Secretary of State show that on December 1st, SD Dems lost another 1,119 registered voters.

The problem for Democrats is that in their hard movement leftward into liberalism, they left South Dakotans behind.  They can beg for money and candidates all they want. But as we approach the campaign season, it isn’t looking good for Ann Tornberg, Obama’s cheerleader in the state.

The Democrat Party is running out of time, out of money, out of candidates, and taken all together, we can assume they’ll also be out of luck.

Last night, I had a call to go check out Lora Hubbel’s Facebook, where it was being dropped in a comment section that a prominent Democrat’s name appeared on the Ashley Madison list, which was hitting South Dakota and had been handed off to the media.  And yes, there it was.

But looking at it makes you absolutely sick to your stomach for the person, as you know it’s not going to be pretty as it is blared in the media.

Of course, a prominent weatherman from our same state’s media had already been outed before on Twitter as an alleged client of the website, said to have spent nearly $600 on the match-making service. The story was earlier ignored, and didn’t get much notice, but will probably see new light.

The Ashley Madison list was supposedly stolen by an employee, and broadcast to the world.  But it’s status as being stolen hasn’t hindered the wave of publicity as people on the list are revealed to the world.

And now, that wave is hitting our state. And we’ll bear witness to all the destruction that goes with it.

Update – You’ll notice I’m closing the thread at the moment. I think a few of you are going past the edge of discussion, and into territory I’m not comfortable in having you venture. This is dealing with people’s lives, and speaking from experience, that’s not a puddle I have any interest in stepping into lightly.

I question whether I’m becoming kinder and gentler as time marches on. I was offered the list today, and I said thanks, but no. In other places, people have had their lives wrecked, and have even taken their lives over this information being blasted out there. An item from it was put out there yesterday, so, it’s not like you can pretend it didn’t happen.

But, there’s no need to wallow in it.

I’m not sure why Senator Phil Jensen decided to take it upon himself to become our State’s new moral authority, and not only procure the information, but to send it out. I suspect at some point, he will find himself reaping that which he has sown.

I had a reader drop me a note tonight, and had I seen it for myself, I think it would have caused a spit take:

Anderson Cooper just had Annette Bosworth on to hammer Joel Arends and his thing with Veterans for a Strong America and Trump.

(Update) And a day later – here it is –

Click on image to watch

So, one of the more liberal members of the national media has Annette Bosworth, a felon convicted of 12 counts against the electorate, who was just stripped of her license to practice medicine, should now be taken as a valid source of criticism against the attorney she unsuccessfully attempted to shift blame to in order to escape prosecution for her crimes?

What’s next? “Coming on CNN – How the Republican nomination for Governor was stolen from Lora Hubbel?”

If all the Anderson Coopers of the media have to throw against him is Annette Bosworth, I suspect we have now arrived in crazy town.

Watch the clip for yourself.  If you find Annette Bosworth a credible, reputable source, you might be inclined to believe her. Unfortunately for Boz, few people, including the 12 people who heard all the evidence, all the testimony, etcetera, bought it.  I’m sure she was all too eager to go on TV for any reason, and happy to spout whatever they wanted her to. What silliness.

Suffice it to say that Joel has done legal work for me in the past, I’m currently talking to him about a family law issue, and I anticipate I’ll use him in the future for other things. I’ve been happy with the quality of his work, and consider him honest and hard-working.

As for all the people squawking about his organization – which, despite what some claim, has a mailing list of over 500,000 – and it’s hosting of an event for a presidential candidate, it’s a whole lot of sturm und drang and little else.

In the wake of Annette Bosworth having her license to practice medicine revoked by the South Dakota Board of Medical and Osteopathic Examiners for having been convicted of multiple felonies, a couple of her defenders crawled out and started their mewling cries that an injustice has been committed.

First, Gordon Howie who abandoned the GOP to run as an independent in last years’ US Senate Race, receiving 3% of the vote:

It is nearly unbelievable.

Her “crime”? signing political petitions which contained 37 signatures she did not personally witness. For this she has been convicted of multiple felonies and now lost her medical license.

Others (many) guilty of the same “crime” are not prosecuted, even though formal complaints have been filed.

This horrific injustice perpetrated by the political, judicial and medical establishment is grievous beyond words.

Read it here.

Also defending Bosworth was an even less coherent Lora Hubbel, who last we knew abandoned the GOP to run against the Lt. Governor (receiving 4.1% of vote):

Today the Governor-appointed (not a peer review board of Doctors) Medical Board took away Annette Bosworth’s medical license. WHY? it has nothing to do with signing our out-of-statute campaign petitions. It had to do with Annette defying the 4th branch of SD Government… Satanic Sanford (well, I mean, the logo of Sanford is a Satanic symbol of a double cross and infinity sign…just look at the “o” in Sanford – but maybe they didn’t realize this…)

This was posted in June and as of yet Attorney General Marty Jekyll has not responded to my signed and notarized affidavit that insider Rep Steve Hickey did the same thing that Annette did.

AFTER the AG received my letter, I’m told Steve Hickey was in Pierre visiting with the AG. What was said? Why wasn’t I given the courtesy of even a call from the AG’s office? Where are you Little pp on this one? Still trying to sue your insurance company to pay for all your psych meds and procedures? …..and people wonder why I tell them to watch the Republicans because they are just using the label of “republican” to bamboozle all the good people of SD.

This string of crazy comes from Facebook.

If you take out the parts about Sanford Health system worshiping Satan, namecalling not worthy of a 12 year old, Marty not responding to hearsay, even though it was ‘notarized’ (LOL), and me being involved in a lawsuit I was never aware of (same first & last name, but completely different middle initial. And state.), some of Bosworth’s more vocal supporters seem to have a common thread.

Bosworth’s support is mainly coming from the disaffected, who have latched onto her like parasites, seeking to exploit her temporary time in the spotlight to try to gain some attention for themselves. They’ve tried grabbing fame and attention for themselves through politics running multiple times, but after they got a taste, and their views became publicized, the state’s electorate started rejecting them. And doing so at nearly every turn.

Howie ran and lost at the state level in two separate elections now, and Lora Hubbel managed to find a way to do it twice in one year. And when they lost, they lost badly. Their views weren’t rejected by the public at large – they were utterly and completely repudiated.   But of course, it’s not their fault of promoting views which range from being outside the mainstream to utterly batsh*t crazy.  It’s the fault of the ‘establishment.’ How dare they not throw out people from the GOP! How dare they they mock people who say ‘laying babies on their back makes them susceptible to government mind control!’

The Bosworth verdict gave her self-appointed parasites defenders an excuse to peek out from under rocks yesterday to grumble about the verdict. Big deal. For them, Bosworth’s self-inflicted plight was just an excuse to try to pick up more disaffected supporters.

And nothing more.

Dare I ask….. Here we go again?  From the Argus:

Several registered voters in Hartford who signed the petition to put state Rep. Steve Hickey’s name on the 2012 ballot say the lawmaker wasn’t present at the time, even though Hickey signed an oath that says he witnessed their signatures.

and..

But now questions have emerged about some of the petitions Hickey submitted in 2012. Two lawmakers at the time, Sen. Deb Peters and former Rep. Bob Deelstra, reportedly collected signatures for Hickey after his original signatures were disqualified because of a technicality by Jason Gant, who was then secretary of state. However, Hickey signed the petitions indicating that he collected the signatures.

and…

Some of the signatures submitted by Hickey were collected after a Hartford City Council meeting on March 20, 2012. Several city officials say they have no recollection of Hickey being at the meeting.

and…

But the petitions from that year do show that he had help from Lora Hubbel, who was then a state representative. Hubbel, however, signed the petitions she circulated and had them notarized.

and..

“My problem with Steve Hickey is he threw Annette Bosworth under the bus for something he did himself,” she said.

Read it all here.

If this is Lora making the accusation, I’d strongly consider the source. 

But it could be more problematic if the others named confirm her story.

Never a dull moment.