Highlights from Friday’s Brookings Co Lincoln Day Dinner.

Pat Powers

Sorry for the delay in posting these, but I had an open house yesterday, followed by a trip to pick up some camera equipment I bought (I’m always interested in Nikon stuff), as well as picking up and delivering signs. And then it was time for prom.

Suffice it to say, I had a busy Saturday.  But, I did get some of the processing work ahead of time, so I can get these posted without further delay:

Here’s US Senator Mike Rounds speaking with State Senator Larry Tidemann immediately prior to the meal…

SDGOP Chair Dan Lederman watches as the ceremony kicks off..

Here, my graduating senior and Teenage Republican Sydney is called on to give the Pledge of Allegiance before the meal.

Master of Ceremonies and Congressional Candidate Dusty Johnson addresses the large crowd…

And it was a large crowd….  They ended up adding extra tables which were quickly filled.

Congressional Candidate & Secretary of State Shantel Krebs is at the podium, where she gave her talk, and introduced her husband, Mitch.

Here Senate President Pro Tempore Brock Greenfield laughs at one of the speakers’ jokes..

Attorney General and GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Marty Jackley addresses the group …

…as does Congresswoman & fellow Gubernatorial Hopeful Kristi Noem (Whom I got a chance to sit down with earlier in the day)

Senator Tidemann presented Brookings Co GOP Chair Jim Gilkerson with a well deserved award for his work for the party.

I had more than one State Official comment to me how well the dinner was ran this year, noting it has been the best one they’ve been to, and I’d agree. It was nice and tight, timewise, and you didn’t start looking at your watch wondering when it would be over.

Afterwards, the candidates milled around and spoke with the crowd..

And another great Republican event is put to bed!

 

15 thoughts on “Highlights from Friday’s Brookings Co Lincoln Day Dinner.”

  3. Russell will probably erode Roundsbergs support. The race will come down to Russell and McGuigan.

      1. Jason has no experience. In order to be an effective prosecutor you must be a prosecutor.

  6. McGuigan does legislative work in the AG office. Why this guy is running is the million dollar question. I guess he doesn’t want to lose we his $134,000 a year job. It has no fire in his belly.

    1. I tend to agree it seems like Charlie is running for the sake of the career bureaucrats.

      Speaking of Charlie I didn’t see him in any of the pictures was he even there?

  8. As of this date, I’ve given absolutely no real attention to the AG race and have no position even slightly formed.

    That said, as a former state employee, I observed four distinct responsibilities of the Attorney General. The following are in order of actual lawyers dedicated to these responsibilities and what I have been told with regard to getting the attention and time of the AG on a day-to-day basis.

    1) Acting as legal counsel to the various agencies. State government is a multi-billion dollar enterprise and the AG’s office is the principal source of legal advice. A good AG who hires/keeps/directs the stable of staff attorneys can save the state literally millions of dollars. This is a responsibility which I seldom hear discussed with regard to capabilities. People praise Janklow’s term as AG for the items below but in reality he may have been gifted in this area. I have no idea how good Long or Jackley have been in this regard but from personal experience I would characterize Barnett a great AG because his staff attorneys were as good as I have experienced in the private sector over the last 25 years.

    2) Chief Law Enforcement Officer (directing the Division of Criminal Investigation). I know it is related to #3 but it is broken out just because of time/attention of the AG. Again, going back to Barnett, the Deputy of DCI lived across the street from me when I lived in Pierre and there were an awful lot of operations planned across the street at night and I saw Barnett’s car there. Maybe I’m inflating it just because of this anecdotal observation.

    3) Prosecuting crimes- While DCI might be lead the investigation and make the arrests, many of the prosecutions are handled by local State’s Attorneys and not staff attorneys or the AG himself.

    4) Suing the federal government.

    My point: Despite this reality, #3 & #4 get most if not all the consideration on who would be a good AG and #1 & #2 get virtually no consideration. Personally, as an extreme fiscal conservative, #1 is a major consideration for me in the end.

  9. They must do the job well. Legislative law doesn’t cut the muster. I think people are tired of the Pierre bureaucrats playing musical chairs. Drain the swamp. New blood.

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