The House Committee on impeachment has spoken.. er.. well, they issued their report with little to no public discussion, with the recommendation of “Do Not Impeach” on a party line vote.
I’ll post the report as soon as it’s available.
The House as a body can choose to move forward and reverse the committee. But we have to wait until April 12. And we’ll want to see what’s in the report.
Okay so it was a party line 6-2 vote, but who voted how?
It’s a nine person committee and that’s eight votes.
The speaker said he would only vote if there was a tie which is what he did throughout the process
Voting to not impeach: Kent Peterson; Mike Stevens, Steve Haugaard, John Hansen, Doug Barthel and Kevin Jensen
Voting to impeach Jamie Smith, Ryan Cwach
Thank you.
It makes the Democrats look dumb the way they voted. I don’t know why democrats or republicans can’t just vote for what is right vs going after the other party. The dems clearly just wanted to vote against a republican vs looking at the evidence.
The Dems did vote for what is right. Noem agrees.
What?
Anonymous 5:27 am I would be careful how I phrase a statement such as you have made because the same could be said of the republicans who block voted. I am just making a point to consider carefully before pointing a finger at one party or the other for block voting. As I see it there were 2 parties that block voted here. I would also add that you have not seen a fraction of the volumes of evidence the committee has seen. For you to make such a statement appears to be an uneducated opinion.
Seriously, so 2 out of 6 people think he is guilty. If 6 think the ag did nothing impeachable but 2 did, then you break it down further to see if was 2 dems. That indicates the 2 dems think all 6 are wrong, that seems a little much. More likely they want to try and score a victory against the republicans in this state which is hard to do.
Your response sounds like you didn’t think it through well enough.
How about we just thank the members of the committee for their service and leave it at that? It wasn’t all coffee and doughnuts in there, you know .
Agreed, thankfully they didn’t let noem try to influence their decision. They looks at the fact and ask questions of individuals and came to the conclusion no impeachable offense exists. This is what most people weee saying and thinking all along.
No, it isnt
Yes it is.
Prove it.
Anonymous 12:30 pm, it was not 2 out of 6, it was 2 out of 9 (the chair to vote only in event of a tie vote. Two people out of a 9 member committee,( those 2 people of the same party in this instance) seems more coincidental than anything else. Are you telling me the 6 out of 9 who voted the other way ( those 6 all happen to be of the same party in this instance) was not coincidental?
I happen to believe the outcome was coincidental and I will not point a finger at anyone.. I guess the real jury will deliberate on April 12th. and give us a final and definitive answer.
Sorry but you are wrong. I don’t see republicans banning together. The case was very straight forward, I have listened to and read as much of what has been released , especially the questioning. This was a simple accident and nothing impeachable. Democrats tend to want to find a way to hurt republicans any which way. This is why it seems it looks like voted on party lines.
You have given nothing to support your claim, other than opinion. Try again.
Anonymous 4:31, And your comments are only opinions as well. Mine are much more factual and less political than yours.
One question, who brought forward the resolution on impeachment? Which dumbocrat did that? Oh wait it was a reflubican.
Why would you attempt to blame this whole fiasco on the democrats? I know and everyone else knows who brought the resolution forward, except you. Why don’t you know? In addition everyone knows the republicans did not need the democrats support on the resolution. The democrat numbers are so minimal that the republicans don’t need their vote, on anything, period.
Face the music BUD, the repub’s brought the resolution forward, they passed it on the house floor, and now you are attempting to blame democrats for the grandest boondoggle in our state’s legislative history. If you aren’t a member of the state legislative body you should be. Although the deadline for filing has passed you can still get on the ballot as an independent. Go for it, the repubs need a few more wackadoodles, like you, in the legislature to fight will the more moderate and mature republicans who at least do a moderately respectable job representing their constituents and our great state.
After following the issue, I think this is the best way forward.
His challenger will have to win the vote.
Noem’s deal may pan-out.
It may not.
I do appreciate not vetoing the cannabis bill, even though I would have preferred a small government solution.