Codington County Sheriff Brad Howell Endorses Ravnsborg for Attorney General
WATERTOWN, SD: Codington County Sheriff Brad Howell endorses Attorney General Candidate Jason Ravnsborg.
“Jason is a tremendously hard-working individual, who I have discussed a number of the issues facing Codington County and our state. I have seen his presentations and appreciate his willingness to work tirelessly and engage with law enforcement to hear our concerns. I am impressed with his ideas and solutions to move our state forward. I am proud to endorse Jason for Attorney General and look forward to working with him in the future.” Sheriff Howell said.
Sheriff Howell has been working law enforcement keeping the public safe since 2002.
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Ravnsborg continues to be the candidate of law enforcement and nicely done on the day of the Codington County Lincoln Day Dinner!
Jason has lined up some very impressive & persuasive endorsements. Aside from Senator Nelson, has any Law Enforcement leader endorsed Mr. Russell? I don’t see our hard-working SD Sheriffs backing Lace Russell for AG. That fact matters to me.
Friend of Education you make some very good points.
Jason is clearly the candidate of law enforcement.
I have not seen any other endorsements for Lance Russell except for Stace Nelson.
Yes, blue lives matter. Every red-blooded Republican supports law enforcement + military. Republicans & conservatives respect the opinions of hard-working cops and soldiers. As we saw in Sioux Falls Tuesday, South Dakota voters much prefer the candidate with the strongest law enforcement backing. When the local police union rebuked the radical “progressive” democrat, voters noticed. Victory in November will come to the AG candidate whom our brave policemen (and policewomen) & our heroic soldiers & airmen support most. That’s the nominee I’ll back in June.
Ravnsborg is a hard worker. My only concerns with him are his judgement in hiring Lee Stranahan who relentlessly attacked Jackley and Rounds and if he will be able to handle a jury trial. From what I’ve been told he has little to no experience dealing with criminal jury trials.
I’d appreciate it if he stated his experience as a prosecutor clearly so I know if its misinformation or if his detractors in law enforcement are correct.
If he can address those issues it would be great. What concerns me about the criminal jury trials is that when I’ve seen him asked those questions he says he hasn’t kept track. Too many to count. Well if it’s less than 3 or 5 then I feel he is misleading on this issue and knows it is a concern voters have.
Fitzgerald and Russell have experience as prosecutors and states attorneys. So I would ask them to show coalition and leadership skills that perhaps Ravnsborg has that they might possess but haven’t demonstrated in their speeches.
For example how does Russell go about getting a bill passed.
How does Fitzgerald see himself working with legislators as more of an outsider without that experience and does he want to keep the office similar to Jackley.
I should hope Ravnsborg and Russell also want to keep the office similar to jackley.
Has he ever prosecuted a case from start to finish?
Answer: No
Has he ever had a criminal jury trial?
Answer: No
Has he ever been elected to ANY office?
Answer:No
The thought this guy is running as AG is difficult to swallow.
Why do they want this man in this position?
Answer: To be determined.
Seems a lot of Anonymous trolls think they know better than all the elected officials that keep endorsing Ravnsborg. Appears to me Fitzgerald and Russell are scared and realize that Ravnsborg is the better well-rounded candidate and is beating them. I still think that when he released the support from the MAJORITY of sheriff that this race was over.
Based off the photos from his old US Senate campaign he is one heck of an A-10 Warthog pilot. I’d love to see Ravensborg be the nominee against Randy Seiler. Randy has not wasted any time and has been going all over the state. Putting Party aside and going off qualifications Seiler would be a great AG.
He’s not a pilot. He was a truck driver. No pilots license.
Steve,
I agree. I think the anonymous attacks in teh face of named endorsements from elected leaders has actually helped Ravnsborg, the guy with the worst logo I’ve ever seen. Ever.
Troy,
I agree with your sentiment. Jason just keeps putting out endorsements, getting stronger and the more desperate the attacks are from Anonymous Twitter trolls… continuing to say the same Lies over and over again hoping that they’ll stick.
He has already disproven many of the lies on here.
Now while having the backing of law enforcement is the most important part… I think by having wide array of endorsements he also shows us that it’s not just the State’s Attorney’s it’s not just the sheriff’s it’s not just legislators but that he can work with all groups!
Seiler vs Ravensborg make it so! Engage!
Randy better watch his own backside first Miss Means seems to have all the Indian tribes endorsing her already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7H0DEskciQ This gave me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes.
While the propaganda on here is amusing, it doesn’t reflect hard reality. The Russell campaign recruited the most new delegates for the convention and that is with senator Nelson’s very public support and effort.
Mr Ravnsborg making derogatory comments about Senator Russell and States Attorney Fitzgerald on the campaign trail, is very rapidly eroding any lead he had from campaigning for 4 years.
I predict Russell and Ravnsborg out of the first round of voting, and then Russell pulling Fitzgerald delegates in the 2nd round to win the nomination.
I agree that both Ravnsborg and Russell will make it to the second round. However, the Fitzgerald people I have talked to have been very anti-Russell and my sense is they are supporting Fitzgerald because he the only other States Attorney running for the AG spot. I think the Fitzgerald delegates are likely to swing the other way and go to Ravnsborg.
I have heard about no derogatory comments coming from Ravnsborg on the campaign trail. All I hear from everyone is the positive message he is presenting, it sounds like you are from the Russell or Fitzgerald camp trying to create new lies. Sorry, but this one is not even a good lie.
LCD… I agree with your analysis.
Jason already has a lot of the general election work done also which makes him an even stronger convention candidate. All of these mounting endorsements matter. Are we really going to turn our backs on the candidate of law enforcement?
If Fitzgerald decided to back Russell I don’t think his delegates would follow…. but I can’t imagine John doing that
3 good people. 1 open seat. That’s the hard part.
Isn’t that all Lance needs? Yuk yuk
Ravnsborg is a likeable guy and has spent the past four years campaigning, but he is no more qualified to be Attorney General than he was to be U.S. Senator. He has little to no real trial experience and zero time as a State’s Attorney. He clearly has the least attorney experience in the race and would probably be the least experienced attorney in the entire AG office. I thank him for his service to our country, but saying his military experience makes him qualified to be Attorney General is like saying he is qualified because he slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night. The two are not even remotely related.
Anonymous, laughable what you say at best. The fact Ravnsborg is a Battalion Commander jumps him light years ahead of Russell and Fitzgerald in leaderships and management experience. To equate that to sleeping at a Holiday in just ignorant, apparently you know nothing of the military. How many generals have become president, should they have been disqualified because they were never governors?
The goods news is that Ravnsborg has the leadership and management needed for the AG office, while Russell and Fitzgerald do not. He also has the law experience required to be AG, all these claims that say otherwise is just poor attempts at lying. You don’t have to be states attorney to be an AG, that is just old world thinking.
Steve – 40+ years of military service, with combat and Army assignments at levels much higher than Battalion Commander tell me you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. Frankly, I am tired of some of my fellow Veterans thinking that just because they served in the Military, we should assume they are qualified for key positions. I say we should thank them for their service, but just like everyone else, we should ask tough questions to see if they really do qualify. Furthermore, LTC is a far cry from the likes of General Eisenhower who commanded all Allied Forces in WWII and later became President. Again, nice guy, but his legal experience and management experience leave him dramatically underqualified for the AG position. If he had never led at the LT,CPT or MAJ level in the Army, I wouldn’t want to follow him into combat as a Battalion Commander. When he has very limited legal experience and has never tried any significant cases in the courtroom, why would anyone want to follow him as an AG?
Well said.
Exactly. All of Ravnsborg’s titles are just that, titles. There’s no substance there. His campaign slogan should be “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
Yeah, I guess the U.S. army just calls him a battalion commander for the check if it. What a moronic post!
Heck (spell check stinks)
Doesn’t sound like you learned anything if you have 40+ years of service. I thank you for your service but If you truly understood the military you would know that you don’t get battalion commander by having a pretty face. You have to earn it from platoon leader, to company commander, to many staff positions in between. And then you still go through a selection. I argue that he has the experience and expertise to run the Ag office because of.
Fitzgerald and Russell’s running of an office of two people hardly qualifies them.
Now, if you would like to slam someone because of military record and them pushing it was more eventful then they say, look at stace Nelson. I thank him for his service by the details I have read about in the past are not positive.
Agreed retired veteran, It doesn’t sound like anonymous understands the military. Ravnsborg would have to had led a platoon, a company, multiple staff offices to even be considered for Battalion command. The amount of personnel he would have had to manage is a direct correlation to the experience needed to run an AG office. Additionally, his extensive law experience and knowledge makes him the most qualified candidate out there.
It sounds like Mr. Anonymous is Stace trying to bash on Ravnsborg and is jealous of Ravnsborg successful military career year-to-date. Stace, man up, get out of the bathroom and sign your name to these posts you are writing or just stop writing your garbage on here.
It is just BS–to follow their logic
Russell and Fitzgerald are running awful campaigns if they are doing anything much and so they will be experts in the office
Ravnsborg who has extensive leadership experience and from all accounts is running a strong campaign thus will be a failure
Bottom line is that they are just trolls and have an agenda to unfairly attack Ravnsborg and promote their candidate.
What do you know of his legal experience that you think you can comment on the breadth thereof? Not much, I’m guessing.
Steve, ditto to all!
Steve,
I agree. I have no dog in the fight and not a delegate. But as an observer all the energy disparage him anonymously may have had the reverse effect when done in the face .of elected leaders stepping up with their name.