Governor Larry Rhoden’s Director of Communications Ian Fury has some pointed words for gubernatorial wannabe Jon Hansen:
Either @SpeakerHansen is uninformed about how economic development works, or he’s knowingly lying. Neither is a good look for a gubernatorial candidate.
To-date, Gevo has received ZERO dollars and ZERO cents from @sdgoed. https://t.co/dvAYKrZ93u
— Ian Fury (@IanTFury) October 18, 2025
Being the Speaker and not knowing if 12 million dollars of tax payer money was spent or not should be an automatic disqualification from any political job. It’s actually quite frightening. Oh, that and just liking and blaspheming.
This is a sad way to try and spin a loss into political gain.
Hansen championed HB1052, which is unquestionably why Gevo is moving to ND. And it wasn’t just the loss of Summit, Gevo sees the anti economic development political climate Hansen has created and made a smart business decision.
But let’s say they did in fact take the 12-million. That loss would be squarely on Hansens shoulders because of 1052 and his anti development campaign. But the loss is significantly more.
If Gevo took the money and built their planned operation, it would have contributed millions and millions, if not billions, of dollars back into our states economy over time. Which would have been an amazing return on a $12-million investment. Which we now lost because of Hansen.
Someone that makes a false claim of a loss they (would be) are responsible for to win political points is the last person we need as governor, attorney general, or any position of leadership.
So does that mean Rhoden is on the hook for costing the state billions?
Yes, as well as every legislator that voted for HB1052.
Totally screwed the states future for a loud and selfish minority
Amen
We are all looking for the guy who did this
Oddly, for a political lifer like Jon, this claim should be easily proven. However, I think he is lying just like he has for SB201 and many other issues. Catch phrases and bull shit to placate the sheep.
His opinion of the average South Dakotan’s intelligence even does a disservice to sheep. Does he really think most of don’t know being approved for say, a house loan, means you still get the loan if you don’t build the house?
Finally South Dakotans will see what Hanson & Lems have cost our state! He is the worst choice for Governor of our state!!
Bockorny just mic dropped over on Hansen’s FB page. If it’s true, it tells me all I need to know about Jon and Karla’s integrity as well as their followers. Check the 8th Commandment, Speaker Hansen.
Hansens post says the funds were “approved” but he is clearly implying that they were distributed to stoke animosity and resentment. This is not an honest statement.
You mean the post he edited to change it from received?
I’ve found many realizations about him very sad. I expected more even though he’s not my pick. Taking credit where it’s not due is unappealing to say the least. Examples:
1) Acting like he had anything to do with the Maude case when it was clearly Noem and Rhoden for months.
2) Acting like he got the USD professor fired because he ‘called’ the USD president. [Who likely said “Jon who?”]
3) Credit on Amendment G work (even though he profited personally) is due but the reality is it was failing until Noem and Rhoden kicked in tens of thousands of dollars (own $$) in the end to bring it over the finish line.
4) ND dropping their lawsuit because of him is laughable.
5) Acting like HE uncovered some gender dysphoria treatment and imply it was being kept secret only in SD prisons when he knew it was federally required not state the night before the vote. He clearly showed his incompetence IF (not) he just uncovered’ that tidbit.
6) Being on and voting for the prison task force’s recommendations but voting ‘no’ in the end. Purely political.
Again sad. Thought he’d have been better than this.
This is spot-on. Hansen isn’t a leader; he finds a cause that has started to build and tries to run to the front.
That’s a very eye-opening list!
These far right folks are going to cost our state so much in the future…it’s hard to imagine. No economic development, no TIFs, no nothing… That’s the way they like it. We’re all going to sit around and watch potatoes bake.
The fellows like Mr. Hansen are not “far right”, they are wrapped around to the left. Also, not only did the Minuteman missiles need some wires to be buried, they took away a big rectangle of pasture and put a stout fence around it. They took land…they did not just bury a pipeline, Mr. Hansen. Ms. Taffy’s Air Force took people’s land. And now, Ms. Taffy wants to be the lieutenant to your nemesis, Mr. Doeden’s. Property rights be damned!
It’s fine to use imminent domain to facilitate government infrastructure.
It’s wrong to use imminent domain to forcibly transfer property rights from individuals to corporations.
The domain is indeed, imminently about to happen. grudznick suspects your ignorant arse means “emminent.” They are very different things, Ms. Frye-Mueller. They have dictionaries on the internets, and you have that one your grand old-ma left that’s in the case by the dining room table.
Way to focus on a meaningless spelling mistake while intentionally avoiding a very valid point.
I’ve said it before but projects like Mount Rushmore would have never been built if Hansen was in power. Additionally none of the Minuteman Missile Silos would have been constructed because they required eminent domain to bury the cable across Ranchers’s land. Those sites probably prevented the Cold War. These far right anti development folks won’t be satisfied until we are all speaking Chinese. I am starting to realize that the “no tax payer money for Private gain” does not apply to farmers. Jon says keep the subsidies rolling in for those folks. But if it’s a project he doesn’t understand or agree with, sound the alarms.
Imminent Domain is properly used for government projects.
Imminent Domain should never be used to forcibly transfer property rights from an individual to a corporation.
This why Trump will federalize data centers.
In these folk’s eyes, anything other than coal fired power plants and heavily subsidized corn and bean growers is a “new green deal scam.” Wyoming and North Dakota are benefiting from our current Legislature.
Carbon Capture is a scam.
What about jet fuel, in this case.
The pipeline was for unnecessary Carbon Capture…a scam.
I feel based on this comment, even if Summit had 100 percent landowner support and a route locked down, the Legislature would have found a way to move the goal post and still deny the permit. North Dakota thanks us!
Trump declared an energy emergency this month. This is just short of federalizing fuel facilities. Stay tuned, Under the Fifth Amendment, the government can seize private property for “public use,” but it must provide “just compensation” to the owners. Need jet fuel for our bombers. Data centers will also be tied to National Security.
If anyone knows about lying it’s Ian T Fury.
Last time I checked, Ian isn’t the one running for Governor.
He did plenty of lying for the previous occupant of the office.
T is for Tiberius? Tobias? Tobehemoth?
I thought Odenbach and Ismay were running the West River campaign. This unnamed Jody (a term we used in the military for the guy back home that was mounting your girlfriend while you were off training/fighting wars) may be a step up from the other 2?
Jim McIntosh is the Hansen campaign manager. I don’t know if the wife-stealing accusation is true or not, but the rest of what Anonymous @1:09pm said is dead on.
It wouldn’t be Odenbach AND Ismay. Ismay says whatever Odenbach tells him to say. So just Odenbach with regurgitations and grunts by Ismay.
So according to Hansen, Jet Fuel, is a green new deal scam? You gotta be kidding me. I’ve seen a lot of dumb shi$ in my day, but this takes the cake.
Carbon Capture is a scam.
I totally agree. It’s a total ploy by the fossil fuel industry to secure subsidies and distract from investing in renewable energy, (wind, solar, hydro.). But South Dakota (legislature) doesnt seem kind to renewable energy either. South Dakota is a joke and deserves the years of crappy revenue coming. My hope is that the Feds recognize this and quit subsidizing our farmers. Had a n interesting interaction with a west River rancher who I was doing some work for. He commented on how the water pipeline from the Missouri River into western SD is a joke and his tax money shouldn’t fund development in and around Rapid City. I noticed a drill rig set up on his property and asked about it. He said he was cost sharing with the Feds. They are drilling a 3000 ft water well and digging line in throughout the expansive ranch for 15-20 stock tanks. It’s on an 80-20 share )80 percent Feds and 20 percent landowner). These aren’t our grandparent’s farmers and ranchers anymore. They are no better than the folks on food stamps and Medicare that they bitch about.
Agriculture is going corporate across the country.
Here is the truth with which you cannot argue about with grudznick unless you attend the Conservatives with Common Sense breakfasting tomorrow morning, and then you may debate my opening rant, entitled: Mr. Hansen does not know if he is uninformed or lying.
Where was Rhoden during all of this? What stand did he take for this project? And is Fury tweeting as a state comms guy or a campaign guy. Rhoden shouldn’t be running his campaign on the state dime. FWIW, I don’t support Hansen either but I’m not sure Rhoden did much to help the GEVO project either.
“It’s time to move on from the pipeline (and by default, Gevo).”
-Larry Rhoden
That was Tonnis’
I think Ian was tweeting as a private citizen who has the right to freedom of speech.
Everything he says will be attributed to Rhoden. He should understand that.
Hansen has been doing this as a legislator for years. Either lying or inexplicably ignorant.