At the onset, let’s just understand that Paula Hawks is going to lose her race for Congress badly. And with that said, it leaves you wondering why she’s admitting she’s going to use her time in Pierre to benefit her campaign, and not her constituents:
One South Dakota lawmaker says she’s crafting a resolution about debt-free college. Democratic State Representative Paula Hawks says she wants to start a conversation with fellow lawmakers about the cost of higher education.
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Hawks says she supports a national movement that involves progressive thinking to address higher education and student debt. She says in South Dakota that begins with a legislative resolution she plans to file ahead of January’s session start.
The democratic state lawmaker is also campaigning for United States Congress. Hawks faces incumbent Congresswoman Kristi Noem in November 20-16’s statewide election.
So, she’s going to use her position to promote Bernie Sanders’ platform of “free college,” as she stakes out a campaign position asking people to vote for her because she wants to give them free stuff?
And I use the ‘free college’ term loosely, because it’s not free, it just shifts the cost to taxpayers… basically, people not in college.
I have the sneaking suspicion that endorsing the proposals of an avowed socialist running for president is not going to serve Hawks well in conservative South Dakota. But when you’re already being written off, I suppose you can throw anything to the wall, no matter how bad it smells, and see if it sticks. Hawks is already identified as supporting an income tax & planned parenthood. So, why not add socialism to the mix?
Your thoughts?
Hawks is a joke.
So the joke’s on the people who voted her into her current position.
As they would say in the military NoGo! 🙂
Thank goodness for this post. I nearly contributed to the Augustana College Republicans’ indoctrination to CPAC. Fortunately, you’ve saved me from myself by reminding me that college kids should not be subsidized by people not in college. Good thing we don’t publicly fund education in South Dakota!
You’re an idiot. They all pay for their education, and are fundraising for an extracurricular activity.
If you are going to hate on them, just say so, and don’t be a self-sanctimonious ass.
So none of the Augie CRs received the Opportunity Scholarship? Huh. I had hoped they were smart and prepared themselves for college. Guess that explains why they want to go to CPAC.
They want to go to CPAC because they don’t believe the country is in good hands with socialists like yourself and the other freedom-haters of your ilk, harebrain.
Oh. Well then I guess they should have applied themselves harder in high school and qualified for the Opportunity Scholarship. Then they may have been prepared and educated well enough to not believe in such stupid bullsh!t.
Wow, you can’t make a plausible argument about anything can you, harebrain? I bet you’d support some Democrat kids’ group going to a socialist indoctrination camp, wouldn’t you?
PC, what is implausible about it? We already fund 13 years of public education, plus we subsidize roughly 40% of post-secondary education at our public universities and tech schools.
Pssst, Augguie is a private college.
How about you stay on topic deary?
The South Dakota Opportunity Scholarship is available to students attending private institutions as well. You’re already helping pay for “free college” for some kids – well, about 1/2 a semester at Auggie, but the fact remains.
Railing against ‘socialist’ handouts to college kids – not to mention public school children – when you willing participate in doing just that makes you a hypocrite.
It is becoming obvious the Democrats goal is to find their absolute base who votes Democrat no matter what, ala those people who would vote for a yellow dog before voting for a Republican.
Maybe Rick Weilands 29% wasn’t definitive for them or they think their pursuit to know their base was “tainted” because it was a four-person race? But it is obvious their goal is not to elect a member of Congress.
Hawks effort to meld it into the SD Legislature will help them find their absolute lowest legislative base as well and they will know if they can actually have less members of the legislature.
SDDP embracing hard left = worse election results = more people leaving party = more they whine about corruption.
Hawks is a pathetic socialist, and her support of the Bernie Sanders “free” college plan shows how idiotic she is in her thinking. Why does she hate America and freedom? Why does she want government control over everything? Because she thinks she knows better than individuals how they should live their lives? Typical socialist Democrat claptrap.
Paula Hawks is the worst…absolutely the worst. How could she!?
The left wants to give us a free college education and the right is biting at the chomps to find a war to fight. If we still had the college deferment it would all make sense, but we don’t.
Although, a college education is becoming to expense and this needs to be creatively addressed and I do not consider myself soft on terrorism, I find it extremely unfortunate that both parties are merely speaking to their bases and not to the true needs of the American people. It may still be early in the election cycle, but something tells me that the 2016 political narrative has already been set.
He cannot be a leader in the 21st century as a nation of hand-outs nor as a nation of fear. No new Democratic leader can win nor truly lead merely on the issues of pay inequity and a free college education for all. These may be laudable positions in my opinion too, but to win requires leadership on all fronts – leadership which not only addresses the needs of some constituencies, rather the needs of the many who are suffering do to the maldistribution of income, unfair trade practices, and a complacency towards Wall Street in general by our political leaders of both parties which many Americans face today regardless of race, sex, creed, or education. But on the other hand, the Republicans, who claim to have won the Cold War for us, have over time (with the help of some Democrats) traded in the “Peace Dividend” promised to us in the 1990s for fiscal deficits, free trade deficits, and the dismantling of our manufacturing base, resulting in the emergence of an ominous communist China as a superpower in the 21st century; and now the Republicans claim to have the answers when their own political perpetuity is dependent upon a single message of continual fear and not a message of victory over fear and true victory for the middle class and those who aspire to be a part of the middle class.
Neither party is offering true leadership in 2016, but the clock is ticking. The left claims we have one more decade to address global warming, perhaps, but we also have only one more decade to be reverent in the 21st century as a preeminent world leader, too. The right thinks it is leading with a obsessive desire for the continual war and the mongering of fear with no end in sight. The right’s leadership in reality only offers the further entanglement of Americas interests and capabilities in a global nightmare of their own doing with the help of the Bush Doctrine, while the Chinese laugh all the way to the bank, position themselves for the 21st century, and conveniently and wisely distant themselves from the whole Middle-east situation to begin with….
Both parties need to smell the coffee and what is brewing right now is not good. The people of South Dakota and America deserve better. In the 21st century, I ask, do we merely care to be eventual spectators in the world arena or longtime preeminent players? The latter will assure our ability to strengthen our middle class through a maintenance and revitalization of good jobs, our continuation as the reserve currency of the world, and the land of hope not only for our people, but also for our future immigrant citizens as well. Currently, however, our political leadership is working for a seat in the upper peanut gallery at best, I am afraid.
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