Government trade magazine Governing updated their prognostication back in late July on many of the races at the state level coming up this fall.
For South Dakota, the big news is that their political observers see the top three state seats in South Dakota staying solidly and definitively in the Republican column.
Republicsns, don’t let this lull you into complacency. Be sure to get out and vote, and if you know Republicans in other states be sure to encourage them as well. We want a Republican wave in November!
in 2006 republicans trusted the media that told them about republican pork and “airdropping” into bloated spending bills, and pelosi wanting to “drain the swamp” and a host of new fresh-faced budget-hawk bluedog dems. those republicans stayed home or switched their local vote, trusting in OTHERS to preserve the gop’s fiscal soundness in congress. The four year deathgrip of the dems from 2007 to 2010 is still around our throats unless we can get a solid enough gop majority to smash the a.c.a., dodd-frank, the ted kennedy act, and a half dozen other nanny-state bills once and for all. this peptalk always gets me to the polls.
the media lied their butts off, then and now. the difference is now we see the wall of lies, and have a president who will go down fighting as the wall crashes on top of him. we should be outraged.
What does the Teddy Kennedy act do? Require a ten drink minimum?
The Edward M. Kennedy Serving America act did this – it repurposed September 11th each year into a national day of community service, and it quietly dished millions of dollars of support to various community organizers around the country. i use ‘repurpose’ gently and euphemistically.
Ahhh, typical Democrat legislation -take taxpayer bucks to buy votes. Kennedy was one of the worst Senators in the history of America, but he is celebrated as the liberal lion; liberal liar more like.
Jason will have the highest margin of all three races
with Jason’s defeat I completely agree.
You don’t have a clue do you? Seller has no chance.
Mr. Ravnsborg is the least qualified candidate the GOP has ever sent forth. I’m talking about for AG; there have been some other less qualified candidates for other offices, but not for AG. Mr. Ravnsborg wouldn’t last a year in office without crashing nose first.
Are you taking your talking points from Cory?
Never thought of you as a koolaid drinker, grudz
Agreed Grudz. After Ravnsborg’s defeat by a wide margin he can start campaigning full time for US Senate again.
Hey Stacie, I see you are back on here hiding behind Anonymous.
Brunner will set records.
seiler has a public record as a busy law-and-order prosecutor, with an excellent ear for various constituencies of all sorts. so far i don’t detect an ounce of awareness building on behalf of ravnsborg. if i could point to a single flaw in jackley’s primary effort, it would be the failure to adequately establish a widely known personna, sufficient to counter noem in the public arena. maybe a lesser race for a-g can have the republican coast on the strength of noem and dusty. but it’s a risk.
i see the western media stuff so if ravnsborg has a wall of marketing up for east river, ok then. a republican could presume the west is in the bag.
Let’s see when Seiler was the US Attorney for the State of SD:
The FBI completed their investigation into EB-5 and submitted their final report. Nothing to see there. Maybe. Depends on how tight your tin-foil hat is. He closed the case.
The Gear-Up program, a federally-funded educational project to assist tribal youth, went up in flames. Federal money plus Indian kids. Why would the US Attorney need to look into that? (Sarcasm here)
The Flandreau Santee Sioux, apparently lacking the assistance the US Attorney had been directed to provide (according to the Cole Memorandum) to keep them out of trouble, tried to start a marijuana production facility and ended up losing a whole lot of money. Somebody should have told them that the DOJ’s decision to stop enforcing the law didn’t mean the law had been changed. He could have saved everybody a lot of trouble.
seiler wasn’t u-s attorney when eb5 broke. gear-up was in the hands of the sd attorney general and dci.
but he was US Attorney under Obama when EB 5 was still on-going and US attorney last year when gear up was being investigated by GOAC…he did nothing but cries about corruption…he can’t have it both ways on these federal programs
Agreed, Steiler is a do nothing blow heart that would be a very bad AG for South Dakota.
Seiler will win by wide margins, Ravnsborg can go back to being a law office gopher making lunch while his handlers create a new image of him being a Navy Seal for another US Senate run.
Hi Stacie, I mean Anonymous 7:52 am. You are getting more pathetic everyday with your wimping posts on here.
Re: EB-5: According to the AP, in a story dated June 2, 2015, “the FBI announced Monday It has closed its investigation into South Dakota’s investment-for-visa program and the state’s US Attorney would not pursue any prosecution.”
Re: GEAR-UP, the Westerhuis murder-suicide occurred Sept 17, 2015. GEAR-UP was federal funds intended to benefit indian students. Federal money and Indians. How much more does a case need to be considered federal?
Re: the Santee Sioux marijuana operation, the AP report announcing that project is dated Sept 29, 2015.
Randy Seiler was the US Attorney for the State of South Dakota from 2015-2017 after Brendan Johnson resigned in March 2015.
There is no avoiding the fact that all this crap happened on his watch. You can try to make excuses but it won’t work.
I agree…seiler can’t have it both ways…but most Liberal Democrats try to argue out of both sides of their mouths.
Spot on. Jackley and Krebs had the worst ads for a political campaign I’ve seen as they didnt offer a compelling narrative of them. They were nice looking fluff but said nothing of them as people or why they were the right candidates for the job.
Johnson’s ads were not great but they were not fluff. They were about him and why he wanted the job. Visually his ads were weak. But the message was much better than Tapio or Krebs.
Noem’s ads were A+. They told a story and visually they were the best. She pretty much mislead voters with her attack ads but I guess whatever it takes to win is how politics works in SD now.
I thought Bjorkman’s ad was horrible…first off no one knows who he is….you need a biographical ad first to introduce yourself to people if not as known….too quirky