Governor Noem Files Brief in Mount Rushmore Fireworks Appeal

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Governor Noem Files Brief in Mount Rushmore Fireworks Appeal

PIERRE, S.D. – Yesterday, Governor Kristi Noem filed an initial brief in her appeal in the Mount Rushmore Fireworks litigation. The brief was filed with the United States 8thCircuit Court of Appeals. You can read the filed brief here.

“The Biden Administration cancelled South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration on completely arbitrary grounds. They’ve displayed their hypocrisy on this issue time and time again,” said Governor Kristi Noem. “We are appealing the District Court’s incorrect decision so that we can return the Fireworks Celebration to Mount Rushmore and honor our nation’s birthday at America’s Shrine to Democracy for next year and in the future.”

Previously, Governor Noem asked President Biden to uphold the Memorandum of Agreement between NPS and the State of South Dakota regarding the Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration. Governor Noem responded to NPS’s reasons for cancelling the fireworks celebration. She also outlined the due diligence that the State of South Dakota and other entities undertook to ensure that last year’s celebration could be conducted safely and responsibly. You can read Governor Noem’s initial letter to President Biden here.

Following the Biden Administration’s announcement of fireworks in Washington D.C., which included an invitation to states “to join us by hosting your own events to honor our freedom, salute those who have been serving on the frontlines, and celebrate our progress in fighting this pandemic,” Governor Noem asked President Biden to intervene and allow the planned fireworks to go forward. You can find that subsequent letter to President Biden here.

America’s Founding Fathers knew that Independence Day should be celebrated “with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one [e]nd of this Continent to the other,” as stated by John Adams on July 3, 1776. And President Calvin Coolidge declared that Mount Rushmore was designed to be “a national shrine to which future generations will repair to declare their continuing allegiance to independence [and] self-government.”

Last year’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration was held safely and responsibly and had a huge positive impact on the South Dakota economy. You can find materials such as photographs and video of the 2020 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration here.

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15 thoughts on “Governor Noem Files Brief in Mount Rushmore Fireworks Appeal”

  1. I agree with South Dakota’s Governor that petty partisan politics was used in slandering 🇺🇸 America’s Celebration at our United States Shrine to Democracy “Mount Rushmore” by President Joe Biden and his Red State hit squad bureaucrats.

    1. So your kind of patriotism is potentially burning down the forest with Chinese fireworks…

  2. 1. She acts like a “pick me” girl. So desperate for Biden to acknowledge her existence.
    2. She is angry at Biden for being a hypocrite by hosting his own fireworks in DC. She’s being a hypocrite by continuing to ban fireworks in state parks.
    3. Her and Ian continue to maneuver around the damage caused to the memorial they love so much by their firework show in 2020. (Don’t believe me it’s in the ruling, just doesn’t fit their political spin.)

  3. The decision on fireworks at Mt. Rushmore should be a joint effort of the Forest Service, the SD Parks Department and the State Fire Marshall. It should not be politicized.

    1. The land is federal land, it is all of ours (USA), not the states. Also, in what world do you live in that you do not see the drought and severe fire conditions present the past few years. This isn’t political, fireworks have been prohibited under Obama and Bush at Mt Rushmore. It frightens me how easy it is to convince some of you of any narrative. What’s next, an attack on the nation’s capital because the election was “stolen”?

      1. I was out camping in the Black Hills the end of June and it was as green and wet as I’ve ever witnessed.
        You are a very special kind of stupid ……..

        1. That’s a cool observation Charlie, but I’ll take the opinion of a Forester over you.

  4. This is a non-issue as long as we don’t un-traffic Governor Noem, freeing her to safely stand-up to corporate usurping of government responsibility.

    Corporate policy, drafted without public input or review, can be grafted on our legal system, forcing unreasonable policies as the color of law on legal citizens of South Dakota (and elsewhere).

    I do not want to see issues like this under pursuit as long as our government is too feckless to stand-up and erase corporate power.

    As you already know from the phone lines and email accounts lighting up about this issue, the people of South Dakota will stand with you, legislators.

    Get together and have the honest discussion. Perhaps have the CEO of Sanford testify, as well as legislators presenting credible evidence that injuries coming from these mandated vaccines amounts to assault and murder (because they have never worked in animals, they don’t work in humans, and they will not work in the future as well as the human immune system in the midst of naturally occurring pathogens).

    The fireworks show is not as important as the MRNA “vaccine” (and other questionable intrusive shots) issue.

    1. –“injuries coming from these mandated vaccines amounts to assault and murder (because they have never worked in animals, they don’t work in humans, and they will not work in the future “—- If IF that is not aa XL ignorant lie— post a link that proves it…. THat kind of crap is what has killed thousands of Americans….

  5. Didn’t we have the 4th of July already?

    Why don’t they just reapply next year when it is hopefully not so dry?

    1. It wasn’t dry
      We own property and it was quite wet this year. Conditions should dictate not politics did.

        1. Oh fantastic…..lets go to the Dakota Free Press (aka democratic socialist propaganda press) for factual unbiased articles…..I just threw up.

  6. –“injuries coming from these mandated vaccines amounts to assault and murder (because they have never worked in animals, they don’t work in humans, and they will not work in the future “—- If IF that is not aa XL ignorant lie— post a link that proves it…. THat kind of crap is what has killed thousands of Americans….

  7. The fireworks first began at Mount Rushmore with Superintendent Dan Wink in 1998. He suggested to the Mount Rushmore Society that in celebration of the Society raising millions of dollars for the monument to build much of what we presently see, that a fireworks display from the top of Mount Rushmore would be monumental. For 11 years the Mount Rushmore Society raised the funds and carried through with all the plans necessary for the spectacular event. The fireworks display put SD on the map round the world for tourism. We met a French family at a RC restaurant who arrived in the BH specifically for the spectacular event. The fireworks were stopped in 2009 by then Superintendent Cheryl Schreier. The monument is a National Park Service facility, not state run or controlled.
    Multiple times the Society, state & the congressional delegation tried to get the fireworks going again, knowing the supreme impact they have on SD. The NPS wasn’t interested in getting into that work load again so prevented it. Once Trump was in office, Noem saw a way to trump the park service and brought the spectacular patriotic display back to the Faces. Now you have a dem in the presidential seat & a Native American in the Interior Dept seat so fat chance SD will ever see fireworks at Mount Rushmore again with that power play.
    Time to quit wasting SD tax dollars on the fireworks. Now it’s just an attention getting maneuver on Noem’s part.

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