Apparently there’s someone new jumping into the race for Congress that I had missed up until today.

Daryl Root, who has been a candidate for the South Dakota State Legislature a time or two seems to be announcing via Facebook his intention to run for Congress in 2022:

Because Libertarians aren’t what anyone would consider a real political party in the mainstream sense, courts have said they can be on the ballot after being nominated in a convention process, so they don’t have to go out and meet people & convince them to sign petitions. They CAN run via petition, but they don’t have to, and it’s a rarity that they would.

So, it’s very likely that when Libertarians get together next year at Perkins, after the waitress comes with the bill, they will announce that Root will be their candidate for Congress.

What can we expect out of Daryl in his race against incumbent Dusty Johnson? Well if 2020 is any indication, it will be … interesting.

In 2020, Root was active on facebook for his race, advocating for making sure abortion was legal, as well as euthanasia.

And then there was this post:

In conjunction with his race, Root openly advocated for people to be able to legally do meth as long as it was in their own home. But don’t be selling to a mentally disabled person. (Glad he drew a line somewhere on methamphetamines.)

I’m sure this will make for an interesting topic in October of next year at the KELOland debate.

Reinforcing why Libertarians have a tough time being taken seriously when they run for office.

Johnson Calls for President Biden to End Unconstitutional Eviction Moratorium

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) along with 30 bicameral members of Congress called for President Biden to end the unconstitutional eviction moratorium.

“We strongly oppose the Biden administration’s latest eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This latest action is plainly unconstitutional and will only serve to further distort the market and create a housing affordability crisis,” the lawmakers said. “Additionally, any further restrictions on evictions at this point are counterproductive. The economy is open, jobs and vaccines are abundant, and federal rental assistance is a reality.”

The eviction moratorium expired on July 31, 2021. Despite the recent Supreme Court case, Alabama Association of Realtors v. Department of Health and Human Services, where Justice Kavanaugh stated that “clear and specific congressional authorization (via new legislation) would be necessary for the CDC to extend the moratorium past July 31,” the Biden administration extended the moratorium in cities with “substantial” spread of COVID-19 until October 3, 2021.

“Instead of pursuing an unconstitutional moratorium, the Biden administration should be focused on distributing the nearly $50 billion in rental assistance that was appropriated through three separate stimulus packages.” the lawmakers said. “As long this moratorium remains in place, property owners will continue to struggle financially. These property owners must still pay mortgages, taxes, and maintenance for the dwelling. If this continues much longer, we will see a wave of bankruptcies, foreclosures, and blighted properties.”

Most states require the tenant to take the initiative when applying for rental assistance. A recent Treasury report found very little of the federal rental assistance money has been disbursed so far, and the new moratorium will act as an additional disincentive for tenants to apply for this aid, leaving property owners on the hook.

“We demand the Biden administration end this moratorium and allow the rental assistance funds to do what they were intended to do. This government overreach must end,” the lawmakers said. 

Read the full letter here.

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State Representative Tim Goodwin is writing in his legislative column in the Rapid City Journal that in the issue of organizations such as Sanford Health and others demanding their workers be vaccinated, they have the right to do that. And if employees don’t like it, they have the right to choose to work someplace else:

As far as making folks get the vaccine?  I do not believe in vaccine passports, mandatory vaccination, or any type of shutdowns.

Our Gov. Noem feels the same way.

The one big question that keeps being asked of me is, “Do employers have the right to make a person get vaccinated as a condition of employment?”  Thinking out loud here, I believe an employer in private sector business has rights as well.  Therefore, if he/she owns their business, and they decide that for you to work there, they want you vaccinated, I believe that they are within their right to do so.

The employee, on the other hand, does not have to get vaccinated, as they can choose not to work there.

Read the entire column here.

From Beth Warden at Dakota News Now comes a snapshot of several South Dakota state legislators at the Mike Lindell Cyber Symposium where they were going to prove voter fraud in the last election. Until they couldn’t.

I met several SD representatives at the Cyber Symposium & invited their statements to be included in my story. Haven’t heard back yet. #MikeLindellCyberSymposium #SouthDakota @govkristinoem @johnthune @RoundsforSenate and @RepDustyJohnson not attending. pic.twitter.com/Er0YDHfS8d

— Beth Warden (@bethwarden) August 12, 2021

That would be wannabe Congressional Candidate and State Rep. Taffy Howard standing with goofball State Rep. Julie Frye-Mueller, who took time away from telling parents to reject school handbooks to attend this crazy thing in Sioux Falls. And also standing there looking at her phone is State Rep. Tina Mulally.

In the week or so that State Representative Taffy Howard has been a candidate for Congress, we find that Howard is already shuffling her campaign around.

In her previous filing on August 3rd, Howard had declared that Dianne Nelson of Rapid City was her treasurer. Now, 9 days later, Howard has filed an amendment to her statement of organization, declaring State Rep. Rhonda Milstead as her new campaign treasurer.

Taffy Howard F1a Amended form by Pat Powers on Scribd

We’ll let you know if that changes again next week.

Sidney Powell is somewhere in the Black Hills working on her book. Mike Lindell is in Sioux Falls running a cyber symposium.

And they both received some news tonight which probably ruined their week.

Three major defamation lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and the right-wing lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani will move forward toward a trial, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. https://t.co/EtyGDtNEo4

— ABC 17 News (@ABC17News) August 12, 2021

Not looking good for Mike Lindell’s Cyber Symposium tonight after his lead investigator is now claiming he can’t prove China hacked our election.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s lead cyber expert now says the key data underpinning the theory that China hacked the 2020 election unveiled at the Cyber Symposium is illegitimate.

and..

But Mr. Lindell’s lead cyber expert, Josh Merritt, told The Washington Times that packet captures are unrecoverable in the data and that the data, as provided, cannot prove a cyberincursion by China.

and..

“We were handed a turd,” he said. “And I had to take that turd and turn it into a diamond. And that’s what I think we did.”

Read it all here.

SD Woki-leaks is back at uncovering wokism in the State University system, and today drops a huge new post on Critical Race Theory instruction taking place at the University of South Dakota:

In the fall of 2020, Dr. Popova gave a talk on “systemic racism” to USD students. Her talk was part of the “Diversity and Inclusivity ECHO Series” put on by the USD School of Health Sciences. In her talk, Popova shared with students her view of the United States. According to Popova, the U.S. was directly founded on the principle of “White supremacy.” The nation itself is so racist and rotten to the core that all Americans, even “sweet,” “well-intentioned” ones, actually spread racism everywhere they go because they have been corrupted by the racist system. So, it is not enough for Americans to try to be good people and to treat one another well. Instead, we have to tear down and rebuild “the system” that Popova blames for all bad outcomes experienced by minority groups. This is not an overstatement of Popova’s position. Here is an excerpt from her talk:

The ideas that Popova presents are the core axioms of critical race theory (CRT). So, CRT is being taught to USD students.

Note that Popova does not present the ideas of CRT as hypotheses that deserve questioning, testing, or debating. That would be a different story. Universities are supposed to be places where we can debate and test out ideas.

But Popova doesn’t do that. She doesn’t teach about CRT. She teaches CRT. As holy writ. In her long talk (which closely resembles a conspiracy theory and can be viewed in its entirely here, unless USD deletes it, as it has done with other incriminating evidence), Popova delivers the ideas of CRT and Wokism as Truths for the students to passively accept. Her talk is, essentially, a sermon – one designed to stir up disdain for the United States and pave the way for student radicalism. It is pure indoctrination: The presentation of an extremely simplistic, one-sided version of history as the Absolute Truth.

For listening to Popova’s talk, USD Health Sciences students were given credits that could be used to satisfy the requirements of a health-sciences professional development program.

Read the entire post here.

I have the feeling that this one is going to get some attention, especially in light of Critical Race Theory being strongly frowned upon by the administration.

Hope the Augustana U kids all kept their masks after last Spring. Because they’re going to need them again according to the e-mail that went out today from AU president Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin to the University’s students:

“Based on CDC’s updated guidance, as Minnehaha and Lincoln counties are currently experiencing high community spread of the virus based on test positivity rates, Augustana will require everyone to wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status. This indoor masking protocol is effective August 16 until further notice.”

I have this strange sense of deja-vu..

It might just be a very long school year.