Hearing early rumors that the House of Representatives took a hard right turn at today’s caucus elections, with Jon Hansen as Speaker, Karla Lems as Speaker Pro Tem, Scott Odenbach as Majority Leader, and Marty Overweg as Assistant Majority Leader.
I’m waiting for more info as it comes out. It sounds as if there was a “caucus before the caucus” to influence how some GOP House members should vote.
At the very least, this next session will provide those who cover politics in South Dakota plenty to write about.
(7pm.. they’re just starting to vote on whips).
Hearing that whips are Soye, Jamison, Les Heinemann and Jessica Bahmuller. And Brandei Schefbauer picked up the last spot.
And there you go.
A step backwards to dysfunctional governance.
This is going to be insane. Four years of inefficient and sloppiness in Pierre, followed by two great years of tax cuts, handling business, and running smooth session days. Now back to more inefficiencies, selfishness, and chaos in Pierre.
If you ever wanted to see what Congress would look like with a Matt Gaetz, MTG, and Boebert running the show, catch the trial run by tuning into Pierre next year.
I’m curious to see what committee chairmanships Brandy Schafbuer and Phil Jensen get. Get the popcorn ready.
gaetz, mtg, boebert, jordan AREN’T running the show already?
Not after January 20th they aren’t. If any of them gets out of line Trump will bombard their social media accounts and constituent offices until they get back in line.
that is funny since they have been the most ardent mini-trumps in the house, almost like his extra tentacles. they will administer the beatdowns as they have done.
What do you expect? Like the Trump election, the election of SD legislative leaders reflect the will of the people. The voters sent conservatives to Pierre; they have now selected conservative leadership.
With this group, I doubt any discussion of adding exceptions to the abortion law will happen in the next two years. If anything, they’ll make it more restrictive.
Which is exactly what the people want and what the governor wants
Just more people running across the eastern border to the free-for-all abortion policy.
What more restrictive policy would you like to see implemented… birth control, that’s all that’s left. You are the reason republicans get a bad reputation for that.
That’s not what Trump wants.
People have a damn right to know exactly what would constitute an “abortion”. Because it isn’t clear. What if a women has a brain tumor or breast cancer. Stay out of a families medical decisions for life and HEALTH of the mother. Mental health can easily be carved out of that despite what the “old men in suits” tell us.
The People, are also interested in the “old men in suits” staying out of the intricate stories of minors being molested and raped and then forced to have a baby.
Also, if a women has a baby that develops with no brain or skull, she can decide to deliver early so that she doesn’t have to have a C section that puts her at risk for death and future C section.
SD has the most strict abortion laws in the nation. That is a fact. The TV commercials saying Amendment G was too extreme, also said that the laws need fixed. So I suggest that those laws be fixed, or “we the people” will speak yet again.
Trump is smart enough to understand that you don’t screw with a person’s family, even a pro-life person’s family. The Legislature better figure that out soon or we will do what we have to do.
PS: The Governor is only against it, was at the last minute, because she picked up the big red phone and someone told her to be against it. Even she wouldn’t want her daughter to be put through this shit if she wasn’t fighting for some higher position in DC.
individual cases such as those presented by non-viable infants or mothers’ medical conditions can obtain judicial waivers.
Health care issues such as the treatment of minors and incompetent adults have long been determined by judges. If Parents deny necessary medical care for a minor child, the hospital social worker and the doctor get a judge on the phone. Adult children who can’t agree on treatment for an incompetent parent will have the decision made for them by a judge.
Health care providers are all familiar with how these things work, so don’t buy the lie that the doctors’ hands are tied. All they need is a judge’s private number on speed dial.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhha.
Man if only those dead women in Georgia and Texas had reached out to a judge! Oh wait, one of them did and the judge told them their medical case did not meet the threshold for an exemption.
Race to the bottom
Odenbach campaigned/contributed against GOP candidates and is now in the leadership. . . WTF?!?
2025 Wackadoodle led session brings you
Keep Republicans (Wackadoodles) Out of your Bedroom Part 1. Instead of Congressman substitute it for SD legislator.
If the legislature is a reflection of the state as a whole, I guess we’re full of losers.
This is one of the side effects of our decades long Brain Drain. Now it’ll get worse.
Ignorance is a central feature of the theocratic takeover.
Take not from the tree of knowledge.
But pick up the shovel and dig my moats.
Pick up the sword and fight my wars.
Drive the wagon and steal the birthrights of our enemies.
Nobody cares, John. You’ll be dead in a few years and all anyone will say about your memory is that you’re the crazy guy who likes chemtrails and digging my moats. Lovely legacy that wont humiliate your entire family.
More impaired non sensical ramblings.
i see the trump win has caused the positive feedback pretzel loop in John Dale’s head to implode.
You sound just like the Democrats trying to figure out how Trump could attract so many voters. Said one, “it must be because we’re just a nation of losers.”
twelve million 2020 voters just didn’t show up to vote in 2024 for whatever reason. don’t read too much into the win – trump didn’t get the non-vote either, he just kept them away from harris.
Typically politicians are those who don’t have real jobs….so I guess it could be true.
Turncoats clearly identified in the WHIP winners.
Jamison
Bahmuller
Didn’t we thing they were normies? NOT. Crazy caucus back stabbers.
Clearly, those knashing their teeth over this election are NOT the normies. The normies are the average everyday hard working South Dakotans who gets up every morning and go to work and who worry about how they are going to pay thier bills and protect thier children from an increasingly toxic culture. Though PP may have fanned the flames of the progressive’s defeat, he didn’t cause it. The defeat resulted from the voters saying “enough of the progressive bullshit” from Schoenbeck, Crabtree and Mortenson. The defeat was a repudiation of their progressive governace, including SB201. As with national Democrats trying to impose Harris on America, so too with Schoenbeck and his friends trying to impose their will on our legislative elections. Across the state, the voters pushed back by putting conservatives in offfice. These conservatives have now elected conservative their leaders. Democracy has a way of bouncing back! It feels good to be an American.
How is the Aberdeen Chrysler Center going Toby? I make sure to avoid the Value Lot.
Keely I doubt it was Tobes who posted this. There are some big words in there for Tobes who has more of a caveman style. He barely has an education and is proud of it.
Stop with the damn conservative BS. It is not conservative to have the most strict abortion laws in the nation and to want old men legislators under the gown during a woman’s diagnosis of breast cancer or a child’s gown when she is molested at 10 and pregnant.
You scream ‘local control” until it is books in school or some other “conservative’s” bill that takes away power from the local parents.
Republicans disagreed on a bill and Schoenbeck was too angry and dismissive of a leader. Wipe your tears and stop throwing the damn “I’m more conservative than you” flag – because it is BS.
SD is a great place to live for a Republican who believes in common sense Republican principles. Don’t go changing our State because you are more “conservative”. Just govern with principal and common sense please.
It feels good to be a South Dakotan!!! But get your poop in a group or get out.
I don’t expect people will be saved by politicians. Get ready for the Theocratic Totalitarianism, though.
Catholics have a tendency to go overboard with discipline, and they have successfully discombobulated their opposition to fight among themselves in a state where they are the minority.
Lastly, slavery has been back in America since Obama capped his operations 8 years ago. Now, the American Catholic, who thinks he is beyond the tug of strings from Rome, has Obama’s dashboard.
See how that works?
Try not to get mistaken for a communist .. for the totalitarians will retort.
Same thing happened in the lead-up to WWII’s conclusion.
Notice that Rome was still standing strong after that conflict?
So sad we can’t find better solutions than toddler level emotional response.
The key to survival in this environment is not to “tribe up” (groups get targeted the most), but rather to champion issues.
I’m championing cannabis reform.
Let me get this straight. You are an anti-Catholic bigot and weed advocate?
we won’t need the pot reform if you just keep smoking it all up ahead of time.
Rep elect Ismay can serve in an unofficial capacity for leadership until his training wheels come off. He will be a force to be reckoned with.
Hi Katie!
Tricycles don’t really have training wheels.
Both chambers will merge church and state. Which faith will have dominion?
the tv-mega churches will dominate, and keep shoving the traditional denominations aside. clearly. trump’s a tv-ratings-driven guy.
the catholic church will survive because the vatican is its own country – the lutherans will survive because the world will always need tater tot casserole potlucks. neither will have sway in congress, weed-driven paranoia aside.
I hope Arch Beal and Jess Bahmuller, and Greg Jamison, are happy with their 30 pieces of silver.
If people in Sioux Falls wonder the next two years what happened to the legislature, they should just remember who did this.
#backstabbingbeals
#itsmillertime
Judas Jamison back at it.
Jessica Bahmuller—a total disaster! A former beauty queen who can’t make up her mind on anything. All she managed to do was a bill about hunters wearing HOT PINK! That’s her big accomplishment? Betrayed her own allies just to grab some low-level job for herself. No loyalty, no spine, no results! South Dakota deserves leaders with real courage and vision, not someone like Jessica ‘Hot Pink’ Bahmuller! #WeakLeadership
Beal is great. That pink bill will be more important and popular for SD’s hunting industry than almost any other bill.
Yes…100%!!! The wannabe Barbie hasn’t done a dang thing but sure is proud to wear her pick camo. How is she still even there??
Conservatives should learn from trump. They will either be trump 2016 or trump 2024.
They need to trust their own supporters and not rely on those who have worked to undermine them for 4 years Because they have experience. They need to believe in themselves and pick solid competent committee chairs who share in their cause.
Trump won’t make the same mistakes in 24 he did in 16.
Oh my. Get over your BS. Trump is not more conservative than 2/3 of the legislators in the house and senate in the last 4 years. Are you blind? He signed the 45Q tax credits bill into law. He spent more than any president.
However he does believe in abortion exceptions and rec marijuana.
Wake up and smell the truth.
Funny you mention the 45Q tax credits… the Radke Radical has been telling everyone Trump is against it. He is 100% in favor of the Carbon Pipeline…too bad SD can’t smarten up about it before it’s too late.
Listening to Radke is nails on a chalkboard. She is the her/she/us/they of Ag.
Look her family up and see if they have taken any FSA program money. It’s public knowledge. She is biting the hand that feeds her. And too ignorant to shut her mouth before people google her name.
Don’t complain about big government when you are putting lipstick on your own pig face.
How many in leadership in both chambers attended the Mark Robinson NAZI event in Sioux Falls?
How many legislators total attended that disgusting event?
Did they form a new caucus which ties in to what Mark Robinson and the main sponsor with their beliefs and past comments?
Odenbach did this. He taught conservatives how to organize, how to raise money, who to recruit for candidates. He started a PAC.
Leadership matters. He realized to beat Schoenbeck, Mortenston, Crabtree conservatives had to be better and that he had an advantage – primary voters are conservatives.
Kudos to the new leadership in both chambers.
This won’t last forever so use your opportunity wisely.
No way will what happened at that event be excused or normalized! It will called out at every opportunity. It happened before in 1930s Germany and in the Hungarian government under Orbán.
Yes. Never forget that Odenbach did this. All for his benefit.
Please keep it somewhat on topic.
I think it’s incredibly important that everyone understands this. We send Citizen legislators to Pierre to represent their constituents, correct? They are there to represent the constituents that elected them. Essentially OUR voices, OUR representation and the people who are supposed to vote on issues that impact their Districts based on the needs/wants of the people who voted them in. Did I get that all correct?
Explain this to people because I think it is incredibly important to understand that a Whip is elected to ensure that votes are based on party platform NOT constituents needs.
Definition of a whip and their duties.
A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline (that members of the party vote according to the party platform rather than their individual beliefs or that of donors or constituents) in a legislature. Whips are the party’s “enforcers”.
This leads to the question of who our elected officials are representing the party or the people?
But this group of leadership, representing the people, has tried to tear down medical marijuana, does not support abortion exceptions, does not support economic development………………….must I go on.
What will they do collectively as a group? I think they will keep doing what they call “conservatism”. Despite the fact that their ideas don’t align with the People of SD or Trump. How about we just call them something else, different, because they aren’t Republicans.
Hypocrites.
Hypocrats