Lora Hubbel files Statement of Organization for Gubernatorial Campaign Committee

Pat Powers

<insert audible groan here.>

Apparently getting her butt kicked in the past several elections is not a barrier to outgoing Constitutional Party Chairwoman Lora Hubbel, who had previously ran as a failed GOP Gubernatorial Primary Candidate, defeated Independent Lt. Governor General Election Candidate and most recently vanquished GOP State Senate Primary Candidate.

Because last week, South Dakota’s highest profile anti-vaxxer candidate filed a statement of organization in the race for Governor.

No word on party yet. (Please don’t be Republican.. Please don’t be Republican…)

If you want to replace the Department of Health with the Department of Alchemy, with the job description of that department head requiring the practice of the lost skills of being a medieval barber, well then she might just be your person.

God help us all.

28 thoughts on “Lora Hubbel files Statement of Organization for Gubernatorial Campaign Committee”

  1. A whole lotta crazy comin in 2018! More re-enactments? What happened to the FEMA camps here in SD? Enemies of the state lurking around every corner?

  2. Good grief…don’t these people realize they have no chance and how ridiculous they sound?

  3. The biggest impact of this is, if she (or Stace) runs in the primary as a Republican, who does she take votes from?

    1. I think that is a separate question….Lora…who knows who really supports her? I think a lot of her votes last time in the primary were protest vote against the governor. And since then she has run as an Independent, Constitution Chair…who really thinks she is a loyal Republican? Why would a republican vote for her in the primary?

      Stace on the other hand I do believe has some hard core supporters.

      I would think Stace has a larger impact on the race than Lora and Stace mainly gets votes out of his district and West River which hurts Marty more than Noem in my opinion. Plus Stace will likely try to attack Marty and EB5/Gear up etc more state issues easier. Oh and prediction for stace would be 5-10% harder to make the RINO argument against Jackley or Noem vs. Rounds. Stace can’t win all he can do is give it to Noem. I put 2 cents on the table.

    2. Lora probably doesn’t hurt anyone. She has become very marginalized.

      Stace probably mortally wounds the Jackley campaign.

      Stace does a lot of good in the senate.

      1. Lora hurts the rest of us that get vaccinated and places us at risk along with the folks that choose to not vaccinate due false information. Curious if that family in Mitchell who all got sick a year or two ago due to not vaccinating paid for their medical care themselves or did we taxpayers pay the bill.

        Lora hurts immigrants and refugees spreading her Xenophobia.

  4. Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt talking about the Freedom Caucus rejection of Trump’s repeal/replace of Obamacare: “It was a big loss, but I agree with the autopsy that (Freedom Caucus Founder and Trump OMB Director Mulvaney) just put out there – that loss isn’t on the president, it isn’t on Paul Ryan, it is on the Area 51 sub-caucus of the Freedom Caucus which believes in legislative flying saucers that ignore the Senate, and the Senate rules, and the reconciliation rules. They own the loss, nobody else.”

    Let’s just say Area 51 has regular visitors from South Dakota.

    Sidenote: Rumors are floating Trump authorized Priebus & Congresswoman Stefanik (Co-Chair of the Moderate Republican Tuesday Group) to reach out to 12 House Democrats and 5 Senate Democrats in Districts/States won by Trump to come over on Tax Reform and Health Care Reform in exchange for Trump not campaigning against them.

    FYI: There are 235 Republicans in the House. 50 belong to the moderate Tuesday Group and 30 belong to the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus. There are 150 House Republicans who belong to neither.

    Vote counting rumors are roughly 15 members of FC and 10 members of TG opposed Trump’s health care bill making passage roughly 5-7 votes short. My guess Trump’s calculation is:

    1) Half the members of the FC members who opposed change their minds or
    2) Trump will move left to get the 10 members of TG and 12 Democrats and can afford to lose the FC.

    My guess is Trump prefers #1 for alot of reasons but most importantly he doesn’t want to move left before going to the Senate where he has a narrow margin and has to deal with filibuster issues. I think this is also the reason some FC members are re-thinking their position.

  5. So much for riddin ourselv s of Obamacare. Trump and Ryan are hell bent on making it a permanent fixture of the increasingly socialized landscape of the American government.

  6. The Freedom Caucus takes seriously, I guess, the hardcore promise made to repeal and replace ObamaCare. Ryan’s plan isn’t the replacement that we all had in mind, so I find it offensive that he or any RINOs berate the Freedom Caucus for having integrity.

    This replacement by Ryan was akin to taking out an almost-dead battery from a toy, looking at it, and then putting it back in the toy and still expecting the toy to operate better. It’s just plan silly.

    Those who quote Reagan’s line about giving up 20% of what we want to get 80% of what we want are completely using that out of context; with RyanCare we didn’t get anything near 80%, so don’t kid yourselves.

    The Republicans and Ryan had 7 years to put something good together, and they squandered that time.

    1. Do you realize we only have 52 Republican Senators don’t you with only two Democrats who have given any indication of considering a change in Obamacare?

      Joe Schmoe:

      Do you realize there is only so much that can be done via Budget Reconciliation (needs 51 yes votes)?

      Do you realize that the Trump/Ryan bill was drafted to MAXIMIZE what can be done via Budget Reconciliation?

      Do you realize your vision to repeal and replace Obamacare requires 60 votes in the Senate (which is not possible in this Congress) which makes your expectation fantasy?

  7. Troy, they managed to pass much better legislation when they knew Obama would veto it. Now that they have a GOP President we’re supposed to believe their hands are tied? Tell me another.

  8. Joe,

    The bill passed last year which “repealed” Obamacare and what was proposed this last week contained the same provisions including:

    1) Eliminates the mandate for individuals to buy health insurance and for employers with more than 50 workers to provide insurance to employees.

    2) Eliminates all fines for people and companies that fail to comply with the mandate.

    3) Eliminates federal subsidies to about 6 million low- and moderate-income Americans buying their own insurance.

    4) Roll-backs Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid for the poor, which has been adopted by more than 30 states.

    If you can find something of significance which was to be repealed last year and not repealed in this year’s bill, I’d like to see it because it doesn’t exist.

    Further, a case can be made this year’s bill goes further because of the defunding of certain provisions not being repealed (need 60 votes for items outside the budget process) and how it triggers certain discretionary powers for Secretary Price in the event of “revenue shortfalls” triggered by the above changes.

    In short, your innuendo they proposed less than what they passed last year (and vetoed by Obama) is frankly fantasy or deception. Ironically, the Freedom Caucus voted for it last year but not this year. Talk about people who don’t follow through. Sheesh.

  9. P.S. And let’s not forget we have 12 less House Republicans and 2 less Senate Republicans than we had last year. Margin of error is smaller.

  10. Spin it however you want, Troy; all I’ve heard from the national GOP for the past seven years has been one excuse after another.

  11. “Lora Hubbel files Statement of Organization for Gubernatorial Campaign Committee”– WAS the topic, I love seeing her getting smashed…but then, the fastest complete change of topic I have ever seen….. Way to Jones

  12. Joe,

    In a democracy, the number of votes one has and the rules matter.

    In a dictatorship, those things don’t matter.

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