How did this happen? An election themed event with live music that’s entertaining for families? That sounds awesome!
This Friday night at the Black Lab in Winner, South Dakota at 6 PM check out the event with Jim Halverson and State Senator Erin Tobin because it looks like a fun time to be had by all!
Gov. Kristi Noem Responds to Wrongful Conviction of President Trump
PIERRE, SD – Today, Governor Kristi Noem responded to the wrongful conviction of President Donald J. Trump.
“Massively conflicted, Biden donor and Liberal judge + stacked jury with unconstitutional jury instructions + radical leftist prosecutor = wrongful conviction.
“President Trump did nothing wrong, and even the liberal media knows it.
“The judge violated Trump’s constitutional rights and did everything in his power to get this outcome despite the clear evidence Trump was innocent.
No doubt Trump will be easily vindicated soon as the case will obviously be overturned on appeal.”
Governor Noem’s response was initially posted on X.
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Sounds like the Board of Elections meeting today was quite the runaway train, with both the hand-counting crackpots, AND the Board of Elections throwing the Secretary of State to the wolves:
“Thank you for making things really clear for America today,” Weible told the board, with Johnson sitting directly across from him. “Today you showed us exactly why we must take back our elections, to do hand counts, and to get rid of the machines.”
and..
(Minnehaha County Auditor) Anderson also pointed out that testing ballots supplied by ES&S weren’t sufficient, so she used a spreadsheet designed by Weible, and that testing didn’t pick up marks made with light-blue ink.
Johnson also came under fire from Jessica Pollema of Tea, who had run for Lincoln County auditor in 2022 and lost. “Monae, we supported you,” Pollema said. “We campaigned for you. We donated money to you. We took you in our homes. We prayed over you, put up signs for you, and we put our necks on the lines for you.”
and..
Johnson tried to speak over Pollard about legislation that Johnson had brought and they opposed. Pollema accused Johnson of inviting “a far left Democrat” to help lead a post-election audit workgroup, and Johnson asked the board for a motion to adjourn the meeting. None of the board members responded.
and..
“Monae, you also promised transparency, but everything you have done has been less than transparent,” Pollema said. That prompted Johnson to again call for a board member to make a motion to adjourn — but again, no one responded.
Takeaways? Not sure that the Secretary of State ran the meeting as much as had the meeting run her over, as Rick Weible – who we last heard from telling us his life is at risk because of what he knows – wants to get rid of ballot counting machines.
The Board of Elections sat on their hands, and let Secretary Johnson twist in the wind in the face of her former supporters now running her over, and they sat mute as the cock crowed twice.. as twice the Board of Elections ignored the Secretary of State’s plea to stop the bleeding.
And to cap it all off, the Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson told everyone that she’s using outside software on the Minnehaha County’s computers that Rick Weible provides her. Because she thought that sounded like a good idea?
Did I miss anything?
From my mailbox:
PIERRE, S.D. (May 29, 2024) – Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced the recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2023 Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, funded by President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. The rebates will help Tripp-Delmont School District 33-5 in North Dakota to purchase one clean school bus for its students. The Program will help South Dakota accelerate the transition to zero-emission buses from existing diesel-fueled school buses, which have been linked to asthma and other conditions that harm the health of students and surrounding communities.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan will join schoolchildren, district leaders and community members in Jackson, Miss., today to make the announcement and highlight how the program will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save schools money, and better protect children’s health. The investment will also drive demand for American-made batteries and vehicles, boost domestic manufacturing, and create good-paying jobs.
“President Biden believes every child deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy life and breathe clean air, and his Investing in America agenda is designed to deliver just that,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. “With today’s latest round of funding, we are transforming the nation’s school bus fleet to better protect our most precious cargo—our kids–saving school districts money, improving air quality, and bolstering American manufacturing all at the same time.”
Er.. yeah..
I thought this was a good message from one former legislator to another in his pursuit of returning to the State Senate:
6 more days!
Not sure how this got past me earlier in the election. A correspondent sent this over on Travis Ismay, District 28B House Republican candidate, noting one of his favorite cultural observations. White History Month.
Why do we have these awful candidates stinking up the place?
Not sure what the Revolutionary war has to do with skin color. Pretty sure the people we fought against were easily sunburned as well.
Do you think he’ll give up all pretext for this years’ celebration, and wear a pointy white hat around town?
Dear God. Please don’t elect this guy.
Shooting some turkeys sounds relaxing at about this time in the campaign.
Tom Pischke’s minders must be seeing some problems in Tom’s campaign. Because last night, they launched a below-the-belt false attack through the group being run by their buddy, the thick-necked, greasy weasel known as Toby Doeden.
With an attack that wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card, rounds of fake and unsubstantiated text messages fanned out across District 25 claiming Jordan Youngberg “supports the LGBTQ agenda” and “planned parenthood,” and actually claimed Youngberg is “so clearly a covert member of the Democrat Party.”
When attacking, it helps is something is demonstrably provable. But this text message reads like it was authored by someone in middle school. (He’s running in your district as a Republican?!? Yeah right…). More often than not, when attacks are this shrill, there’s a problem.
I have the feeling that Tom & Toby’s attacks might be a sign that they see it slipping away, and it’s an act of desperation.
Less than a week to go, so we’ll have to watch and see what other schoolyard taunts they try to throw out there.
Remember back on May 17th, when I did a post on Toby Doeden’s PAC filing a document that noted a $100,000 donation from him to his “Dakota First Action” PAC?
The law very clearly lays out what is and is not permitted:
12-27-9. Limits on contributions to political action committee–Violation as misdemeanor .
A political action committee may accept contributions during any calendar year as follows:
(1) Not to exceed ten thousand dollars from a person;
(2) Not to exceed ten thousand dollars from an entity;
(3) Without limit from a political action committee;
(4) Without limit from a political party;
(5) Without limit from a candidate campaign committee; and
(6) Not to exceed ten thousand dollars from a ballot question committee.
Any contribution from a person who is an unemancipated minor shall be deducted from the total contribution permitted under this section by the unemancipated minor’s custodial parent or parents. A violation of this section is a Class 2 misdemeanor. A subsequent offense within a calendar year is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
So, since Toby Doeden filed a document with the Secretary of State noting that he gave more, I brought it up to them, and sent an e-mail asking if they were going to do anything about it.
Good Morning.
I wanted to draw your attention to the campaign finance report for “Dakota First Action” political action committee that was filed yesterday with the Secretary of State’s office, which appears to indicate an impermissible donation was accepted by the committee.
According to the report, Toby Doeden of Aberdeen, SD donated $100,000 to the committee, despite the requirements of SDCL 12-27-9, which limits said donations to $10,000 from any one person.
In addition to this violation, I also believe the Committee at the direction of Mr. Doeden to be a serial violator of campaign disclaimer laws, with examples attached of the thousands of text messages without disclaimers being sent across the state. I do realize I may not have standing, as I did not receive these, but I draw it to your attention.
Thank you for your consideration and review.
Pat Powers
And what was the result? After a few days ruminating over it, on May 21st I received the following:
Hello Pat,
Our website has outlined the campaign finance complaint process.
https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/campaign-finance/campaign-finance-complaint-procedure.aspxThank you,
Rachel Soulek
Director, Division of Elections
Wait, what?
I can understand if they wanted a specific complaint on the text messages. But this is the Secretary of State’s response on a document that was required to be filed with them which contains blatant and shameless violations of campaign finance law? Are they kidding? While there is a campaign finance complaint process, I know of nothing in law that prevents the Secretary of State from acting on the obvious.
So, fine. As of today, I have filed the affidavit, and the ball is in the Secretary of State’s court:
Dakota First Action_Toby Doeden Affidavit by Pat Powers on Scribd
Hopefully by filing the affidavit, some action can be spurred with regards to the shameless violation of state law when it comes to a renegade political committee (at least appearing to) completely ignore the fairly loose campaign finance laws that are in place in South Dakota.
So. We’ll see what happens.
For those who are ultimately elected this fall, maybe they should take this example and be spurred to action as to the failure of how we’ve currently structured enforcement of our campaign finance laws.
I’m one of the first ones to point out that law enforcement has bigger and far more important things to do. They need to move these away from criminal penalties that no one enforces unless it’s the worst of the worst violations. They should go back to making things administrative penalties (like they used to have) for the small potatoes, and put an actual system in place to act on it when someone skips the disclaimers, flouts campaign finance law, and allow for some some actual resolution.