Minnehaha County Rebel Republicans going to try hold meeting to censure chair over censure

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1. I don’t even know what to say anymore.

   1. Literally 100% my thoughts!! WTH? Only, so sad, actually. I truly hope hope they get their shiznit together soon. Sadly, when the pretend far right calls out the other pretend far right, it is probably not going to end well.

      And the party becomes disengaged in our largest city.

      And where’s Haugaard and Torneau (sp) in this tornado they created? Or Roetman for that matter?

      Sad indeed.

2. Amateur hour. Going on more like amateur decade. This party needs structural reform to get anyone normal to contribute in time, talent, or treasure.

3. PSA: We’re experiencing another Bridge Out moment. Please secure loose items, fasten your common sense, and keep hands inside the vehicle. Bridgette’s out of control—again—and somehow people keep handing her a microphone like it’s a community service project. Maybe that’s what happens when the only meal plan is Pizza Ranch photo-ops for Jon Hansen.
   The county parties isn’t a karaoke night for conspiracy karaoke. If we want adults in the room, we have to stop rewarding the meltdown and start rewarding facts, plans, and basic decorum. No more podiums for chaos.

4. The SDGOP should raise the standard of what constitutes a meeting so it takes more than two exec board members to go rogue.

5. Before anyone complains, are you signed up to be a precinct committee person? If not, go sign up, then complain!

   1. I am a precinct person. This is embarrassing.

   2. I’m all for participation. Just remember: integrity starts at your address. Sign up where you live, register where you live, and then let’s talk.

      The problem is Bridgette and the so-called “election integrity” crowd can’t even hold their own friends to that standard.

      For context: Bridgette won her position by one vote — and it was just exposed that her friends, the Wollmans, are registered to vote at their place of business, not where they actually live. If even those two ballots weren’t valid, that election flips instantly.

      Hard to preach integrity when the receipts go the other direction.

      1. Absolutely right.

   3. I have considered the position of precinct committee person but unlike most of the people who pursue that office, I take the responsibilities seriously.
      First of all, if the SDGOP actually holds the 2026 state convention in Rapid City, it’s going to be expensive. The party doesn’t have the money, which means the delegates’ share of the cost will be unusually high, plus motel rooms aren’t cheap out there in June..I would expect it will cost at least $1000 per delegate.
      Then there is the work, the campaign season between June and November. There are Multiple Independence Day, county fair, and homecoming parades. I have done two and even three parades in a single day, racing from one town to the next..Then there’s all the phone calls, fundraisers, and door to door lit drops. Election Day finally arrives and you have two choices: poll watching or street corner sign-waving.
      It comes down to a lot of work and a lot of money. Is this really how anybody wants to spend four months?

      1. It’ll be free, of course! That’s what EschenBAMA, Laffy Taffy, and the others promised when they attacked Lederman and Wiik: if they themselves were in power, the convention would be free for all delegates. I’m sure they have too much honor to go back on that promise. That would be extremely hypocritical!

         (That was sarcasm)

         1. oh yeah it’ll be free when it’s out in a field near Miller and the delegates have to bring their own lawn chairs and sack lunches.

            1. I’m pretty sure that’s the plan.

6. Bridgit needs to duct ape her underwear cause she cannot afford new ones.

7. The Minnehaha Central Committee starts with a Prayer and a Pledge?
   That’s not a Mini Ha Ha.
   That’s a huge belly buster !!
   Ha ! Ha !
   The prayer is over.
   Let the Bigotry begin.

8. Stunning stupidity.

9. The entire party is a mess. The idea of a few party officials in each county deciding who our candidates are for AG and SOS is an old and antiquated practice. There are far too many people excluded in that process. Put these offices on the primary ballot so all the Republican voters can have a say in who gets elected. Force those candidates to campaign to more than the 300-350 votes they need at a convention.

   If the Legislature doesn’t change this in the next session or two, this will be one of the next ballot issues. Bring the power back to the people – not just the kooks and quacks running the county parties.

   1. The legislature won’t change it. If you don’t like it, start a ballot measure. You’ll get a lot of funding and support from people who want a system that discourages extremism.

   2. Agreed

   3. Anon, Respectfully, I don’t agree with you on this. For one thing, the folks generally most involved in the party, including lots of precinct committeemen and women are in the best position to evaluate statewide candidates for office to see which of them best represent the party in the general election. They tend to follow politics more closely than many of our voters.

      This includes whether or not they are willing to abide by and work with the party platform. Secondly, in an era when all of us (me as well) complain about the cost of elections and specifically, campaigns, candidates can better afford to run when they only have one state wide election campaign to pay for.

      Secondly, all registered voters get the final say (as they should) in the end at the general election.

      1. Under God, the people rule, right? Put it on the ballot and see if the voters agree with you, Gary. I predict they don’t.

      2. So you think the voters are too uninformed to elect the SOS, AG, and other statewide elected officials, but they’re smart enough to elect our U.S. Senators, U.S. Representative, Governor, legislators, county officials, mayors, and city council? Or could it be that what you really think is that the convention should be a gatekeeper for every elected official at every level? Then you and your buddies can screen every elected official in South Dakota to make sure they follow the party platform. Of course, you and those same buddies set the party platform, so in essence, you want to screen out any candidates who don’t do exactly what you and your buddies tell them to do.

         Why not, right? After all, the voters get to vote in November. So there’s no problem with you and your buddies keeping people off the ballot that you don’t like since the voters get to vote for whichever candidate you decided should make the cut.

         1. This. Gary and others want to be the gatekeepers and argue that they are simply more informed. As I’ve said frequently, they are the ones that want to drive the RC or Watertown for the convention because they want to be the gatekeepers, while the rest of are busy with other parts of our lives. It doesn’t mean we don’t care and are uninformed. It does mean that I’m not playing the game they set up that requires about 300 votes to get elected at convention.

            The current system is how we got Jason Ravnsborg. It’s how we get candidates who throw their hat in a week or a night before the vote. We have all figured out how to vote in primaries for Congress and Governor. We can certainly do the same for AG and SOS, at a minimum.

            Might just have to put this one on the ballot.

      3. wrong. Most of the people recruited to be precinct committee people are not engaged at all and refuse to do the job once they get it. They were recruited by a candidate to go to the convention and vote. And that’s all they want to do, and the candidate who recruited them didn’t tell them they would have to cover the transportation, meals, lodging and convention fees themselves. Nor did the candidate ever mention the rest of the job description, the campaigning for the rest of the ticket all the way up to the general election. And they are supposed to do that even if the candidate who recruited them for the convention vote didn’t get the nomination. That is probably the biggest problem right there: if people sign up to be a precinct committee peeps for one particular candidate, and he isn’t the nominee, they are still supposed to campaign for the person who won. And they don’t want to do that, so they crawl back under whatever rocks their candidate found them under. Most of our precinct committee people are no-shows when the heavy campaigning starts.

         1. The original delegate process was adopted and even put in statute in a different time. It was a time when building a grassroots organization was important for communication and to mobilize voters. That honestly doesn’t apply now – campaigns and candidates and parties can reach voters directly much easier than they ever have. Thirty and forty years ago, the party was made up of actual active Republicans doing the work. More recently, the convention consists of friends and family of candidates who’ve never been to convention before, and the kooks and crazies who want to control who gets elected – they view themselves as the protectors and gatekeepers of the party platform. If they were Democrats, they would want to be Superdelegates.

            So yes the system is deeply flawed. A candidate for AG can find a few dozen friends to go to convention, and court a couple hundred other delegates, and get the nomination. Then breeze through the general election. Yes, it’s that simple. Guys like Ravnsborg, with time on his hands, did just that.

      4. LOLLOL you sound like the DNC forcing them to accept Kamala as nominee last time around. No, the precinct people do NOT speak for me nor are they the end all be all for party purity.

      5. You talk about all the money spent ,you mean the money that is tax free exempt from sales tax. We pay sales tax but politicians don’t. This isn’t fair but who makes the rules!

10. Elections have consequences. Now Bridget and company want the chairman removed because their person lost. You would think SD Canvassing would be all over this happening basically in their own backyard, but we only get crickets from that group. I guess integrity is hard to come by now days whether it be election type or otherwise.

11. All budget does is cause problems with her petty attitude. Shes doing pisskey’s bidding and they’re both the most worthless humans on the committee and everything they touch.

12. People actually get censured for saying crazy stuff and being jerks to elected officials? Doesn’t seem to be the case in district 28 where their Rep suggested poisoning a county commissioner. That’s totally fine. These local parties are off the rails.

13. Bridget over troubled waters probably used to be a Democrat.

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