Just received this interesting message..
“In the Pennington County Democratic party e-mail this morning they have a call to collect Dem-friendly businesses. I’m not a dem, so I have no additional information. I just wonder if it will turn dems from doing business with businesses that aren’t on the list. I also wonder about publication of the list and what business in the mostly Red Pennington county shopping area.”
Democrat Friendly Businesses in South Dakota by Pat Powers on Scribd
In looking at the Google Form, it’s not something created specifically by Pennington County Democrats, but by the state-level South Dakota Democratic Party. So, I would assume that all of the Dem party organizations may be sending it out. Very interesting.
If I were cynical and had worked in politics a long time.. I might wonder if this is a way for Democrats to gather a list of business owners to recruit, since there are a few too many Republicans who have tried to close South Dakota for business, as they attack data centers, wind, solar & mining, building and development, etcetera and so on.
Who knows? Democrats might be trying to see how many business owners are re-evaluating the political causes they put their coin and efforts behind?
When there are Republicans out there who deride basic economic development as crony capitalism and the liberals against the transport of ethanol byproducts via pipeline have taken over the SDGOP, I’m not sure that I can blame Democrats for shooting their shot.
Sounds like when Laura Armstrong and other democrats in Rapid City started a Facebook page promoting businesses in town that were “Caring Businesses” that followed the strictest Covid mask requirements and social distancing rules.
Sure! My physician advised us to keep a wide distance between us and anti-vaxxers too! Measles spreading in West Texas with hot spreading elsewhere. Plus as we have seen again from the Republican state senator in Minnesota who was busted in a sting soliciting sex from minors. We want to keep our kids away from these people. We would like to see a list too to avoid giving them our money.
Please publish that list if it ever becomes available. I would like to know what businesses to not give my money.
What does that mean “democrat friendly”? I’m friendly to everyone that comes into my establishment. You’re a customer. At that point, I really don’t care about your party affiliation.
Are Bud Light and Target, Republican Friendly?
You see, people like to give money to those who believe in a similar fashion. Much of the reason why Tesla and My Pillow will end up in the graveyard.
The South-Dakota-closed-for-business meme has only been swirling at this site a few days and is already tiresome to the point of obnoxiousness. Airports have long scared taxpayers to extract more money, the military is always threatening to abandon its bases, and the education blob is never happy. As for wind and solar, these are scams of the highest order — inefficient and stupid ways to generate occasional power. If things are truly heading south, we’ll know soon enough. But I seriously doubt that anything the Legislature did or didn’t do will be the cause.
It has to do with business development environment, sure. That is where the GOP is leaving itself in the ditch right now. But on a larger scale, SD Democrats are sharing this state every day with many MAGA-hat-wearing people, whose idea of a friendly greeting to a stranger is a series of jokes about Sleepy Joe and Kahmallah or whatever yucks Gutfeld had them laughing at last night. Just so you know, Democrats don’t want to hear it. Or patronize it.
Many Republicans don’t want to hear either.
The MAGAtts are a loud, dumb and obnoxious minority.
Republicans are tired of hearing it too.
MAGA is a loud, obnoxious and uneducated minority.
Democrat-friendly businesses are abortion and gender clinics.
They want to kill babies and mutilate & sterilize gay kids, so it can be figured anything else to do with children is also abhorrent to them.
Tell me you are a miserable person without saying you are a miserable person.
I’m not the one who wants to kill babies and sterilize gay kids. The Democrats are all about those things, abortion and puberty blockers. It’s a death cult.
You’re telling us you want Democrats to be killed off. Just say it out loud. Do it.
It is understandable why Democrats hate children; they are still children themselves and don’t like competition from REAL children.
Remind me again, which party did the Minnesota rep that was just busted for trying to rape kids belong to?
Or the republican from ND who was just sentenced for traveling abroad to have sex with children. Great Republican morals led by the rapist in chief.
Remind us of the party that wants to keep foreign gang members in the US? Which party wanted to keep the money flowing to the Mexican cartels with open borders? Which party supports the murder and terrorizing of the Jewish people through their loving support of Hamas? Which party is supporting domestic terrorism, the 2020 riots, firebombing Tesla, two assassination attempts on President Trump and the attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. Please spare us your sanctimonious BS.
Since Trump stopped Congress from fixing it a year ago with the best legislative approach ever crafted, I’m going to have to say Donald J Trump and the Republicans. It’s a matter of record. You bought it and own it thanks to Trump.
Then explain the latest border numbers from this morning and how a new (garbage) law was needed? President Trump did it in less than two months without congressional action.
Joel Koskan, Rusty Hayes, Ted Klaudt
Maybe it’s time to get off the internet and go outside for awhile?