Today, Corinna Robinson filed her final FEC Report closing the chapter on her run for Congress in South Dakota, despite earlier assertions at the end of the last campaign that she was going to be a candidate for the same office in 2016.
Corinna Robinson Termination Report
The report was limited to returning a $1000 donation from an out of state accountant, and Corinna forgiving what remained on the 20K loan she’d made to herself early in the campaign. As noted on the report:
The loan was created in the amount of 20,000.00 in December 2013. There were payments made on this loan. The payments totaled 8,000.00. The payments were made on 7/31/14 for 3,500.00, 8/5/14 for 1,500.00, 10/25/14 for 2,000.00 and 11/10/14 for 1,000.00. There were additional amount added to this loan in the amount of 357.62 in December 2014. This bring the total of the loan to 12,357.62. This loan is being forgiving in the amount of 12,357.62. A letter will be sent to FEC from the candidate stating that she is forgiving this loan in the amount of 12,357.62
This leaves state Democrats back to square one in attempting to find a candidate to challenge Kristi Noem in 2016; at arguably at the height of her popularity and her strongest beginning campaign coffers to date.
And it provides a cautionary tale of what happens when carpetbaggers jump in from out of state and think they’re all that. It usually fails.