Governor Names Mike Jaspers Secretary Of Agriculture

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Governor Names Mike Jaspers Secretary Of Agriculture 

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced today that he has appointed Mike Jaspers of rural Minnehaha County to serve as South Dakota’s Secretary of Agriculture. Jaspers will begin July 5, 2016.

“I am very excited to have Mike serve as ag secretary,” Gov. Daugaard said. “His background in agriculture production, policy and administration makes him a great fit to lead the department.”

“I am honored that Gov. Daugaard has given me this opportunity,” Jaspers said. “I look forward to working with the men and women who make agriculture our state’s No. 1 industry.”

A native of northeast South Dakota, Jaspers operates a diversified crop and livestock farm in McCook, Hutchinson and Marshall counties. He received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanized Agriculture from South Dakota State University in 1993.

In addition to operating his farm and holding management positions in several agricultural businesses, Jaspers served in the South Dakota State Legislature from 1997-2005. In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed him state director of USDA-Rural Development, where he served until June 2008.

Jaspers currently serves as vice chairman of the board for Sioux Falls Catholic Schools and is a graduate of the South Dakota Agriculture and Rural Leadership (SDARL) program. He and his wife, Robin, have two children.

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Editor’s note – Unexpected, but not unwelcome at all. Mike’s a good guy. -pp

A new telephone message that’s going out in District 19 from Governor Daugaard.

And my requests for an update on the things that were coming are answered. This is what is coming in D19, and I’d bet Stace Nelson doesn’t have one of these.

Governor Dennis Daugaard is sending this message out on his own dime, and encouraging people to go out and vote in District 19 for Caleb Finck, as he evokes memories of the positive leadership the District had under Ed and Bill Van Gerpen as well as Jim Putnam.

As I understand, while the Governor has general spots encouraging people to vote, this is the only one that he’s specifically doing for a Legislative candidate.

It’s a nice spot, for a deserving candidate.

 

More scuttlebutt in District 19. Lots has happened over the last week, and there are rumors of things yet to come…

While the nattering nabobs of negativism in District 19 are busy calling their opponents RINOs (at the same time they’re crying to the far left liberal democrats), I’m hearing things. Maybe not everything, but, I’m hearing quite a bit.

There’s a lot going on in the Southern parts of the South Dakota’s James River Valley.

To recap the last week or so, I’m hearing about a bunch of mail being dropped in the District in a couple of races…

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and

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… Which was quickly followed up by more advertising….

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And that was surprisingly followed up by an unsolicited postcard from a neighboring legislative district, which you saw earlier, where a sitting legislator took one of the other candidates to task for his negative campaigning & the bad things his political allies said about other people

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Of course, that solicited a bizarre response where Stace Nelson couldn’t stop fixating on panties, and going hard negative when he claimed he wasn’t being negative….

(…Because everyone wants to hear a baritone voice talk about panties over and over during Sunday Dinner.)

And while Stace was recording his angry panty robocall, and an unknown house candidate was perseverating over an advertising piece,

other candidates were out hitting the bricks with a volunteer crew…

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And the next day while the angry candidate spent their day being angry guy, blasting away at people that made him angry on social media…

…I’m hearing that while he was tweeting away, his opponent was busy matching him ad for ad on Radio, if not exceeding his radio buy.

And yet, most surprising of all, I’m hearing through the grapevine that…..that’s still not all.   I’m hearing that there’s yet more to come, and things are swirling around in the background this evening.

If you haven’t  noticed, there’s a distinct difference in style between groups of these candidates. There’s a hard-edged angry negative force that yells at people who call them out on it. And there’s the polar opposite who have just run their own race, talked to voters, and moved forward in a positive manner.

But really, all the talk on blogs is just chatter. What we think doesn’t amount to a hill of beans. It will be all up the to voters of District 19 tomorrow, from 7am to 7 pm, to decide the type of people they want representing them in Pierre.

Do they want people who can work together and accomplish things? Or do they want ineffective angry people who are there for themselves, and care little for their district, because they’re going to Pierre with an agenda.

We’ll find out tomorrow.

I’m curious as all get-out to find out what’s still coming in the race. No one is fessing up yet! And I won’t find out for a while, as I have to go write a bail bond.

Trial to proceed on Stace Nelson robocall lawsuit

Yesterday, he was blasting out a negative Robocall. But today., Stace Nelson’s attorney R. Shawn Tornow was in a courtroom trying to stop a lawsuit against Nelson and his indicted co-conspirator Dan Willard for a Robocall that took place three years ago.

Unfortunately for Nelson, the case is proceeding forward.

I’m told attorneys representing Rushmore PAC and Stace Nelson (& crew) appeared in court today to discuss the case which has drawn out for months because of appeals, and a later refusal of Dan Willard to get court sanctions paid. That was what has held up the long simmering case, which is now proceeding forward, despite Nelson & Willard’s best efforts.

The judge ruled today that the motion from Nelson & crew to dismiss was denied, and the case may proceed forward as Rushmore PAC is seeking damages for affected robocall recipients who received the calls on their cell phones (if memory serves).

Kevin Jensen Newspaper ad from this past week.

Kevin Jensen noticed the postcard from his opponent Bill Shorma, and asked I’d be willing to post an advertisement that he had placed in the paper. And I said “Sure! Why not?”

It’s a bit wordy, but it is nice to see he’s not interested in participating in the negativity that people are sending into his District. Jensen faces William Shorma and David Anderson for two of the District 16 House Seats tomorrow.

Keep those advertisements coming!

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