Apparently not enough people paid attention to the antics of Senator Stace Nelson this past legislative session. Because it became necessary for him to send out a press release going after his enemies:
The sheriff and chief deputy for Brown County are named in complaints filed with the South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission.
Copies of the complaints against Sheriff Mark Milbrandt and Chief Deputy Dave Lunzman were included with a news release from state Sen. Stace Nelson, R-Fulton. He also filed complaints against former Brown County Deputy Ross Erickson and Madison police officer Mathew Wollmann.
They seek revocation of the men’s law enforcement certification.
So, exactly why did it become necessary for Stace to become the police of the police in this instance? According to the stream-of-consciousness press release he sent out to democrat website Dakota Free Press ….(of course)… Stace somehow lays the blame with Governor Noem, which was too bizarre of a stretch for the Aberdeen News to include in their article:
“Governor Noem’s 2018 Republican primary win over former Attorney General Marty Jackley is credited by many to Noem’s negative campaign TV ads in which Noem used the Kaiser court judgement to mock Jackley being tough on crime and attacked Jackley for dismissing and ignoring Kaiser’s complaints. Despite these facts, neither the Commission nor Governor Noem filed complaints with the Commission to address the notorious illegal and unethical conduct of the offending officers who cost the state of South Dakota over $1.5 Million.”
Um.. Because the Governor’s campaign brings something up that had been litigated, in his mind the then candidate was supposed to file a complaint? Really?
(If that’s the case.. wasn’t Stace a legislator before any commercials came out? Why did he wait until now himself?)
I think we are actually all dumber for having read how he connected the yarn in his head to blame it on the Governor.
Moving on.
It’s sad this man thinks the sun rises and sets on him. He is a big mouthed nobody. Look at what he accomplished this last legislative session. Next to nothing.
Nothing about this man surprises me. Total nutjob. I believe he is clinically insane.
Is this an effort to put himself in the news until he announces he’s going to primary Rounds in 2020?
For those of us that don’t know any different, in each of the four complaints Nelson states “this complaint is given within my official duties as a South Dakota Senator . . .” — is there some place that lists complaint-making as an “official duty” of a South Dakota legislator?
I have met Mrs. Wollmann on a multiple occasions and I am appalled that she is being dragged into this complaint. She is a wonderful and kind heart person who does not deserve this at all.
I tell my nine year old daughter when she is doing something obnoxious that not all attention is good attention.
Mr. Nelson could do more good in the world if he focused on seeking professional help for his own mental health issues and attempted to repair the many bridges he has burned with essentially every South Dakota legislator (perhaps with the exception of Lance).
4:29, I don’t know squat about Nelson’s record as a law enforcement officer but I know plenty about his dismal record as a Senator. He is the least respected and least effective legislator in Pierre. Just look at how many bills he passed. Next to none.
How long will it take before the voters in his district wake up and quit electing him? He’s nothing but wasted space in Pierre.
Someone needs to write the “ How Not to be a South Dakota Legislator” book encompassing Mr. Nelson’s time in office.
New York Times Best Seller?
i think many of us worried about when this shoe would drop as week after week with no excrutiating drama continued to pass. bringing it up before now would have felt like tempting fate, or poking the sleeping bear.
i poked. i’ll shut up now.