In the South Dakota Searchlight article which is blowing up Republican in-boxes this morning, former Obama-voting Democrat and new Republican Party chairman Jim Eschenbaum rails on about removing the Republicans he does not deem as worthy from the party, calling them RINOs.
As part of the interview he did, Eschenbaum takes a direct, and completely low-class bum shot at outgoing Executive Director Reggie Rhoden, claiming:
He resigned at the meeting on February 22, when we did the elections. And we have decided thus far that we don’t need an executive director. Nobody knows that he was doing much.
Just a few moments ago, Reggie Rhoden, the outgoing Executive Director, offered his take on the one-ring circus that the Republican Party has turned into under RINO-hunter Eschenbaum:
I was getting paid $4,357.50 a month with no benefits.
I’m not perturbed, but it certainly seems a weird thing to lie about after begging me to stay on board until the next meeting. It’s especially odd when I’ve spent dozens of hours over the past few weeks trying to help his team with a smooth transition– A transition he should consider allowing his board to complete before speaking poorly of the only person genuinely trying to help them out.
He hasn’t even arranged for anyone to come to my office to pick up the files they so badly wanted to audit! I hate to think how that audit must be going thus far if the Chairman is publicly misrepresenting the only salary they have to keep track of. By proxy it must also be hard for the Chairman to imagine that the ED did much when the Chair doesn’t even know what the Chair does.
I would hope Reggie’s cooperation ends here and now, since what passes for a GOP chairman has decided to go scorched earth on the people who were trying to help in a smooth transition.
You tell ‘em, Reggie! Eschenbama is a disaster.
Eschenbaum is both classless and clueless.
Logan Manhart and Brandy Schaefbauer blew off District 1 and 3 constituents lined up to ask them questions many pretty perturbed at the last of only 2 Aberdeen legislative forums so they could vote to elect this RINO hunting Democrat as the new SDGOP chair?
That last legislative coffee was packed! They chose party and pushing their extreme narrow minded, minority rule ideology over answering questions, addressing concerns and being held accountable over the extreme bills they were prime sponsors, co-sponsored, voted on or were about to vote on.
Was Reder there too electing EcshenBama or at his homesteaded home in Minnesota?
Hey Eschenbama. Maybe worry about Democrats instead. They’re out raising you, out working you and out organizing you. How about some counter protests to these nuts protesting Trump, Elon, etc.
Leave Republicans alone. Are you a double-agent for the Dems?
I don’t know anything about Eschenbaum, but Rhoden was a do-hire in state government shortly after Noem took office in her first term. He didn’t last very long because he didn’t feel like he had to do anything. Was very stressful on the staff that didn’t get their jobs handed to them because of who their dad is.
She only knows half the story. Wait til everything comes out. Many ranchers don’t like what the Maudes did but are staying quiet because they don’t want their cattle shot. They’re trying to make themselves out to be the Bundies or the Duttons but they ain’t.
Meanwhile they’re raising hundreds of thousands of dollars and get free publicity from the newspaper Mrs Maude works for.
You may have posted this under the wrong article.
Last October, when Wiik and Fitzgerald were in charge, Stu Cvrk and the rest of the Coalition of Counties (which Eschenbama was part of) wanted to block legislators & lobbyists from serving on the SDGOP executive board. It’ll be interesting to see if they still believe that legislators & lobbyists shouldn’t serve in SDGOP leadership now that they’re in charge.
If they do pass that bylaw proposal, Pischke would be ineligible to serve on the SDGOP board.
That entire line of information is false. I didn’t last at the DLR because I was expected to focus on pushing out blank unemployment checks rather than finding folks a job. When COVID hit, everyone had to shift from the constructive work they were doing to signing off blank checks left and right. I disagreed and made it very clear I don’t draw my motivation from signing checks, I only cared that the people I was expected to help found actual employment.
I was hired on as a Student Advisor, the Secretary called and asked if I’d be willing to fill an Employment Specialist role instead, I said “why not”, Cory Heidelberger turned it into a nothingburger post for Democrats and RINOs to diss a guy for finding folks jobs that paid higher than the one he was currently in.
I was working in an office with the Secretary’s son, but nobody mentions that. The DLR is over 95% federally funded and most staff are Liberals, so what they expected to gain politically by hiring me is up to your imagination.
If my penchant for teaching man how to fish rather than giving him free handouts was an inconvenience for someone on the staff, allow me to offer my most sincere “BOO-HOO”. I didn’t take that position to send your tax dollars to people who refuse to work, I took it to make a positive impact in my community and I’d do everything exactly the same if I were to do it again. I stand on my principles regardless of the need to justify some lousy federal office budget.
To this day I still run into folks working jobs where I placed them. THAT is why I did the job, not to sign checks. What would you have done in my position? You probably would’ve signed the checks without so much as a second thought just like the rest of them. I’d rather be the main character of my story than an NPC, and all the other NPCs absolutely hate that.
Reggie was always a big help when I needed assistance as a county officer. At convention last year he did a great job. I will miss him in the ED position as a firm hand on the rudder.