I’ve been seeing a lot of condemnation from the far right for Secretary of State Monae Johnson endorsing Democrat Terrence Davis to be her successor for the office. But what about when one of their own appears to be endorsing Democrats in the State races.?
I’m told that Republican State Senator Lauren Nelson is actively promoting Democrat Frank Kloucek in the Public Utilities Commission race, against Republican Don Haggar.
As noted by one of my readers:
As a GOP member, I am horrified that our own District 18 senator is actively endorsing democrats over her own fellow republican. When did the party stop being about electing republicans? This is just disgusting, but what is worse is that the Yankton GOP is helping her do it. This needs to stop across the state.
Accompanied by this material that they received..
Hm.. I was trying to see if that was on her website, and I found this right away, which appears to confirm her allegiance to the Democrat candidate:
And moreso.. go back to the image on the top.. I also noted the recommendations on the flyer which appear to encourage bullet voting for the Democrat in the House race in her District, as opposed to Nelson’s running mates, John Marquardt and Mike Stevens.
With the video definitely being posted by her, and the rest allegedly being distributed by the sitting Republican State Senator.. we’ll have to see how all of this might affect her status in the Senate Republican Caucus the next time they get together.
Update – looks like Democrats are clucking over Lauren Nelson going full-Kloucek.
So, whomever the incoming President Pro Temp of the Senate is will have an easy time determining where they can seat Nelson in the upcoming session.
This brings the fundamental question:
Should politicians be primarily loyal to, and actively promoting their party, or primarily loyal to an actively promoting what they think is best for their constituents (of all parties)?
Different people have different answers
Putting party over policy got us to where we are today. It is natural for people to change their minds as they learn more and as situations evolve. I for one am heartened to see that representatives seem to be growing increasingly uncomfortable with the writing on the wall and are starting to vote in line with their morals.
Maybe Yankton County Republican voters should seriously consider the Democrat candidate for State Senate. There is no reason to support a Republican candidate who supports Democrats.
She appears to be as far left as Nelson is far right. Actually – they probably agree on many things that are exactly 180 degrees of standard, but both coming at it from different directions.
Exactly. I hope they do.
Have any of you ever heard of people over party? Seriously. Cry harder
So how is Don Haggar threatening?
Country over party ?
The irony about Frank is, because he has taken strong public positions on data centers, transmission lines, and eminent domain, he would not be able to hear cases related to those issues. He would be “recused” or disqualified. The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled against bias in Northwestern vs Stofferahn. The Senator from Yankton probably doesn’t even understand that.
not very bright, is she?
Maybe she DOES understand that, and would rather have a seated commissioner who can’t vote on certain projects, rather than a flighty “r” candidate who would turn and do a populist backstab later.
Why would the PUC even be addressing data centers if the principle of local control is adhered to?
So that’s a non issue right there, unless of course you don’t want local control of data center projects over 100 mw.
And that right there is the thing – the proponents of these projects want the PUC to assert jurisdiction over these projects and take power away from the locals because they think the PUC will be friendlier to the cause than the locals will be.
Let’s be Frank about this. Frank is the best choice for the people.
Hagar has more gills than most fish. Cmon Come.
Looks to me like the anti everything senator is supporting anti everything candidates.
Short sighted, narrow minded CAVE policy is not best for South Dakota.
Looney Lauren needs to go home and stay home. I hope D18 throws her out.
A Demo in a SD statewide office would help the SDGOP gene pool
She should give him her hair instead of her vote. It’d look good on Frank.
It’s Lego man hair
Frank is a conservative dem. No surprise. He always worked hard for his constituents
This statement is the equivalent of being stuck in a hole and trying to fill it in with quicksand to get out.
Hey! No hair jokes. 🙂
RINO
Oh, you Republicans are getting big mad during this election cycle 🤣