Governor Noem Responds to Decision on Mount Rushmore Fireworks
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem issued the following statement in response to the District Court decision on her lawsuit against the Biden Administration over their cancellation of the Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration:
“The Biden Administration cancelled South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration on completely arbitrary grounds. I am disappointed that the court gave cover to this unlawful action with today’s decision. But rest assured, this fight is not over. My legal team will appeal this incorrect decision so that we can return the Fireworks Celebration to Mount Rushmore and celebrate our nation’s birthday at America’s Shrine to Democracy for next year and in the future.”
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oh, eat a dick. you knew when this was filed you had absolutely no shot. all this effort for a chance to go on Fox and puff your chest and tell the rubes how tough you are.
Good Luck with the 8th. they won’t even read it
Well, for sure your nick says it all.
Your user name says everything about you and your post.
I may be anonymous but not a dick.
What did this shameless PR ploy cost the South Dakotan taxpayers?
When the federal government is arbitrary and capricious to settle a political ploy, we should all be fighting.
How would you like it if Noem denied you a permit because she doesn’t like you?
What Biden did is what tin pot dictators do. And, for all the vehemence people like nick said about trump proves they are just a bunch of phonies.
Mount Rushmore is a national treasure. The 4th of July is a national holiday which has been celebrated for almost 250 years. There is no good reason for denial but Dementia Joe being a petty little man.
P.S. And having a national celebration in our state is an honor and good exposure of our state. The Dems and Republican NeverNoems like the former Speaker is why they are irrelevant to policy making in this state.
They are petty little minds like Biden.
Well said Ed.
You’re a simpleton and Kristi hack Troy- plain and simple.
Just because there aren’t fireworks, doesn’t mean there can’t be a celebration.
Maybe if KN and you were as far up Biden’s butt as you were Trumps – there might be fireworks at Mount Rushmore. It’s crazy when you piss off the decision makers, how decisions often don’t come down in your favor. Elections have consequences, so many the Trump supports should evaluate where they stand on issues and maybe come back towards the establishment and center a little bit.
So, your point is it is ok for the federal government to be arbitrary and capricious against people and states on the other side of the aisle with regard to usage of national public parks.
Further, using you logic of elections having consequences impacts ones access to national assets and privileges, you must also think other rights can be denied for arbitrarily and capriciously. The more liberals talk, it is clear they have wholly abandoned any pretenses of belief In the concept of universal civil rights and liberties but are just tin pot dictators.
And finally, as a South Dakotan, your lack of concern the actions are not in the interests of South Dakota shows how reasonable South Dakota voters are to deny you any governing relevance.
AMEN! Well said
Okay, put politics aside. You want to have a pyrotechnic show in a national forest full of combustible fuel. During the summer dry season. If the state wanted to take sprinklers and fire extinguishers out of the capital because the governor thought they were not aesthetically pleasing and the fire marshal said “no”, and the fire marshal happened to have a D after his name would you make the same argument.
The BH have been ravaged by the pine beetle and it’s a tinderbox. Have a little common sense.
Gov. Nome may like the photo opp, but consider the fact that the Park Service and the Forest Service may not want to deal with a wild land fire that is totally preventable.
When I was a volunteer firefighter we got called out once on a fire that was caused by the USFS doing a controlled burn in the spring. It was previously planned and they went forward even though it hadn’t rained like was expected. The fire jumped the line and people lost some cabins.
Last year the same argument was used, “the fireworks will start a forest fire in the dry trees”. Remember that ? Never happened though did it.
This is just a purely political decision by Biden, just like his stopping the pipeline (after all the permits had been followed and construction well under way) and stopping all new oil drilling leases so we may again become dependent on foreign oil.
Dick doesn’t get it. Might as well talk to the wall
Biden could care less about fire prevention. What he and his administration do not like is a patriotic display reminiscent of last year when Trump was here. It is all politics with the dems.
Go with a laser light show. Advertise the heck out of it and the crowds will still come. Much as Biden would like to, he cannot cancel patriotism on July 4th.
That’s a good alternative. I’d go to that. Get one of the top notch US Miltary Bands to perform with a laser show. I would love that. Great suggestion!!!
Why doesn’t Kristi ask for fireworks in the badlands? Logically thinking about this (set political parties aside), the risk is not worth the reward. Blowing up a bunch of Chinese made colorful bombs over a dry forest looks cool, but can you imagine if a fire started? I don’t even know if Kristi would light the fireworks, image the PR nightmare if she burned down the black hills with this stupid event. It could kill her presidential run before it starts.
Her anti-democratic challenge to Amendment A already took care of that. It might fly here in SD but she will get lambasted for that on the national level, and rightly so.
While Ron DeSantis is busy signing important bills protecting female athletes, in South Dakota the governor is suing over the critical issue of fireworks at taxpayer expense … you actually have to accomplish important things if you want to be president. Not just waste peoples time and money with phony issues.
If you think showcasing a national monument and our state (#2 industry is tourism) is a phony issue, we have a difference of opinion of substance.
Regarding the issue you mention, Noem did something. What in particular of substance is lacking in her executive orders leaving girls vulnerable to unfair competition.
Bingo
Dick, all of your concerns are and were available in the event the fire danger is high that day. Some years it is and some it is not. I would be fine if the objective reality on July 4th was it is unsafe and a decision not to have fireworks would not be arbitrary and capricious.
Biden made a preemptive decision and is using false rationales to justify his decision to the detriment of our state.
P.S. a little civics lesson. The United States of America is federal democratic republic formed by the States. The Constitution provides for the citizens and the States (individually, as a group, or collectively) to petition the courts as the forum to reconcile disputes. The assertion somehow a Governor shouldn’t pursue a Constitutional option to resolve a legitimate dispute anathema to our very form of government.
You do realize that calling something arbitrary and capricious does not automatically make it so, right? I feel like you read the standard of review for the case but didn’t even bother to learn what it means. Oh, and: another post that you first amendment absolutist whiners will block from being seen because you are utter hypocrites.
An appeal further funneling our tax dollars to a private DC law firm, pure political grift
With Trump thinking he’s going to be reinstated as President in August, couldn’t he just sign an executive order now and restore fireworks to Mt. Rushmore this 4th of July?
Why does dick spell his name with a small d? Hmmm.
Where were you all crybabies 2008-2019?
the hills would not be a tinder box if the USFS would cut down all the dead trees. It’s ridiculous they are left standing.
the Feds don’t want to do that, either