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This postcard from State Senator Alan Solano came out this past week, although as I understand, it went out right about the time he was ranked A- and endorsed by the NRA, so it missed the card.

Here’s a nice change of pace from the attack postcards today. Marilyn Oakes recently sent out a postcard to her possible constituents asking for their vote, and Gideon passed it on for our review:

I caught this on facebook, and I had to do a double take, because the front of it reminded me a bit too much of Motley Crue’s sophmore album, Shout at the Devil:

Seriously, you can’t make this up. Check it out for yourself.

The lying group of liars, otherwise known as the South Dakota Taxpayers PAC, has apparently put out an ad, which is up on Facebook:

It looks like it got a little scuffed up in the mail, but this arrived in mailboxes today from Rushmore PAC.

I think they hit some of the high points.  Especially the part about “Don’t send an Ineffective Conspiracy Theorist to Pierre.”

 

I’m not thinking much needs to be said about the postcard sent by State Rep. Mat Wollmann. It’s pretty self-explanatory that the negative postcard against Caleb Finck has ignited a backlash against Stace Nelson.

Sioux Falls Democrat Blog Drinking Liberally has a post that sums up the state of the Democrat party, as well as the District 15 race:

Closer to home, the Democratic State Senate primary in District 15 continues to intensifies. As near as I can tell, Democrats from outside District 15, unable to elect Democrats in their home Districts, continue to the battle for control of the Democratic Party’s direction in District 15. Former State Senator Sandy Jerstad from District 12 sent a letter into District 15 in support of Reynold Nesiba, who, you may remember. just recently moved into District 15 from District 13 to run against long-time District 15 incumbent Democrat State Representative, Pat Kirschman. The whole thing reminds me of four years ago when the same people sponsored Mitch Fargen, a District 8 Democrat and romantic interest of Erin McCarrick, the former Democratic Party Executive Director, to move into District 15 and challenge the sitting Democratic Representatives too. Mitch lost and Erin and he moved to San Francisco.

I do not agree with Mr. Kirschmann on a number of issues but I support him because he is grounded in his District. I want to make the Democratic Party larger, not smaller, and I think the elitism and arrogance (You don’t find Kirschmann and his supporters calling his opponents stupid) which rests at the core of this constant bickering is not healthy for the Party and in large part is responsible for its continued spiral into irrelevance.

As evidence, look no further than last month’s voter registration report: statewide the Republican voter registration advantage over Democrats increased by another 1015 voters. Democrats once equaled Republican registration in the State but he Republican advantage over Democrats now stands at more than 70000 voters. This Republican advantage has increased almost every month since 2009. The South Dakota Democratic Party is ill and it appears it is getting worse. It is sad and, I think, it is very unhealthy for our State.

Read it all here.

“The Republican advantage over Democrats now stands at more than 70000 voters.”  Somehow, I’m ok with that.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I had a former legislator who served with Charlie Hoffman point this out. If you recall the South Dakota Gun Owners postcard that was just kicked out in the mail, it had this passage at the bottom, referencing 2009’s HB 1278, a measure to “clarify certain statutes prohibiting political subdivisions from restricting firearms.”

The South Dakota Gun Owners testified as a proponent for the measure:

And who voted for it?  Why, Charlie Hoffman:

When South Dakota Gun Owners attacked him in the postcard using this point, not only did they lie, they attacked him for supporting their position on the bill.

And that goes to show you why South Dakota Gun Owners continues to be one of the least trustworthy organizations in South Dakota.

As we’re counting down the hours before the primary, this postcard popped up as Janette McIntyre continues to go hard negative on Jeff Partridge in the latest postcard to come out of the election.