From Bob Mercer:

Republican former legislator Lora Hubbel provided Lederman’s Iowa registration to South Dakota reporters Wednesday.

The registration record shows Daniel Isaac Lederman last voted in Iowa in 2000.

Lederman later served in the South Dakota Legislature as a Republican from Dakota Dunes.

and…

Lederman won the South Dakota Republican chairmanship this year.

Read that here.

and from my mailbox, in a press release from Lora Hubbel:

“Being a Republican isn’t about stealing the “R” to get elected. It isn’t about using the GOP brand…”

and…

“The reason these politicians are upset about their voting records and voter registrations being made public is it gives the Republican base the full ugly picture of the reality that our GOP has been highjacked by political opportunists who don’t share our conservative values.  As your next governor, I will take away the liberal top cover for these fake Republicans…”

Of course, from my previous post which comes from a Constitution Party Press Release dated last year…

Kurt Evans won the CP’s nomination for the US Senate at the Constitution Party of South Dakota’s state convention that was held on Saturday, July 9th in Sioux Falls.

and…

Lora Hubbel was elected as the new State Chairman of the Constitution Party of South Dakota!

Read that here.

and from the State Constitution Party in February of this year..

Lora Hubbel has decided to step down as State Party Chairman.  We thank her for serving and wish her the best in the future.

Read that here

So, basically, a candidate who changed parties to become Republican in February is attacking the GOP Chairman for switching parties about 18 years ago.

Trump Signs Noem’s Women, Peace and Security Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Donald Trump has signed the Women, Peace, and Security Act, a bill sponsored by Rep. Kristi Noem in the House that aims to increase and strengthen women’s participation in peace negotiations and conflict prevention globally. Research shows that peace agreements are 35 percent more likely to last at least 15 years when women are involved. The Women, Peace and Security Act would – for the first time – establish women’s participation as a permanent element of U.S. foreign policy under Congressional oversight. With President Trump’s signature, the legislation has been made law.

“We live in an extremely volatile and dangerous world, and our national security often relies on the success of ongoing peace negotiations,” said Noem. “Women have proven to be influential forces in producing lasting peace within communities, yet are often underrepresented at the negotiating table. I’m grateful to President Trump for signing this important legislation and hopeful that with these reforms, as well as the long-term thinking and accountability this legislation requires, we can produce more sustainable outcomes during future conflict resolution and peace negotiation processes.”

Noem first introduced the Women, Peace, and Security Act in May 2016. While it was passed by the House, the Senate didn’t act on the legislation before the end of the last Congress. As a result, Noem reintroduced the legislation in May 2017 and worked with Senate sponsors to push the legislation toward enactment.

Caught a little intel the other day after my post on Cory Heidelberger walking in NSU’s parade.

Apparently, despite there being an open House seat, I’m told that Heidelberger is looking at running for State Senate against Al Novstrup in a rematch, after suffering a beating at the Senator’s hands in 2016.  Word is that Aberdeen Dems have been told that the sore loser is going for another run… and they’re not thrilled.

What was passed on to me was “County Dems don’t want him to but aren’t getting anyone new anyway…”

Now that’s a rallying cry for Democrats if I’ve ever heard one.   Meh.. Well, we can’t find anything else…

Just had an e-mail from a reader pointing out to me: “Have you seen this? Nelson completely re-wrote his Wikipedia page.”   Okay. Call me the curious cat. I had to go look.

In looking at recent revisions, it appears that Senator Nelson, or at least someone using the prefix of his personal e-mail address of [email protected] has been actively editing his wiikipedia profile. And so have people using a form of racial epithet about the former president, as well as IP addresses originating in Mitchell… which also match up to an IP address known to lavish slobbering praise on the Senator via this web site:

Any editing of Wikipedia by the person the article is about would appear to be contrary to the guidelines of wikipedia, who lays out guidelines about conflict of interest,  noting specifically:

• Be transparent about your conflict of interest.
• Do not edit articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors.
• Post suggestions and sources on the article’s talk page, or in your user space.
• The role of editors is to summarize, inform, and reference, not promote, whitewash, or sell.

Read that here.

In fact, Wikipedia’s advice if a person notices inaccurate advice about themselves on the website?

One of the most frowned upon things in Wikipedia etiquette, however, is to edit one’s own page. When Microsoft offered to hire people to do so, they were greeted with great disapproval by the community.

Read that here.

Which appears to be exactly what Senator Nelson (or someone using a form of his e-mail address) appears to have done.

What do you think? Should South Dakota politicians be editing their own wikipedia entries? For that matter, how many have their own entries?

Or should we just accept whatever we read as edited (because we read it on the Internet)?

NEW VIDEO: EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE, VISION FOR SD SET NOEM APART

With the right direction and a governor pointing the way, we can really reach those opportunities before us, says Noem

Sioux Falls, S.D. – Rep. Kristi Noem today launched a major online ad campaign around a new video, which highlights her diverse executive experience and ambitious vision for South Dakota. Noem ran a successful farm and ranch operation and a series of small businesses for more than a decade before serving in the South Dakota State Legislature and then as the state’s lone member of the U.S. House.

“My executive experience is very unique, which is something that will only help me hit the ground running if I have the honor of being elected as South Dakota’s governor,” said Noem. “I believe all our small businesses and family businesses have the opportunity to be successful. I grew up with a dad who dreamed of all four of his kids being able to stay on the operation if they wanted to, and that’s become my vision for South Dakota. I don’t ever want someone to leave the state because they feel like they have to in order to make the wages necessary to provide for their family. We can do that here. And I believe that with the right direction and a governor pointing the way, we can really reach those opportunities before us.”

South Dakota is home to more than 83,000 small businesses, which employ nearly 60 percent of the state’s workforce (around 200,000 South Dakotans) and account for 75 percent of South Dakota exporters. As a lifelong small business owner, Noem brings a unique experience to the table and an unmatched dedication to opening new opportunities for South Dakota job creators from all stripes, especially South Dakota’s small businesses.

Oops, I did it again.

Apparently I’ve bent time, space and reality… especially reality… and am somehow being directly blamed for expunging voter data by the allegedly conservative group who keeps releasing information through former liberal Democrat State Senate Candidate Cory Heidelberger:

Citizens for Liberty claims that finding those voter registration records was made more difficult by …. Pat Powers himself and his former boss Jason Gant, who as Secretary of State allegedly ordered the destruction of voter registration information archived in Pierre that documented changes of voter registration as people moved from county to county:

Our requests to the Yankton and Brown County auditors specifically about Representative Hunhoff and Senator Novstrup elicited the attached voter registration cards. Our efforts to research our elected officials were made difficult due to the multiple decades worth of voter registration information expunged by SOS Gant & Mr. Powers [SDCFL, 2017.10.10].

If you must, go to the pot blog and read that here.

They claimed that there was somehow “multiple decades worth of voter registration information expunged” by myself and Jason Gant?. I’m not sure what proof they have of that claim, especially the fact that any record retention requirements are going to be laid out in administrative rule and in law.

That claim has as much merit as when Shawn Tornow tried to get me to testify because he thought I could control telephones as part of the Dan Willard robocall trial.

In other words, it’s so ludicrous it beggars the imagination.  If we could introduce a couple of facts, which are pesky things for the moronically challenged:

The false claim that somehow I “ordered the destruction of voter registration information archived in Pierre.”   Unfortunately, those making the claim fail to understand that there IS NO VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMATION ARCHIVED IN PIERRE.

It ignores the fact that these records are not those of the state, but they belong to, and are supervised by the counties, who would be in charge of managing any retention schedule or destruction process.

I also can’t help but ask how my name is getting drug into their wild accusations, other than writing about Citizen’s For Liberty’s bumbling attacks on Republicans as my time with the Secretary of State had nothing to do with elections.

While I was there, I was the boring guy who wrote the blue book, managed a few staff members under administrative services, such as the lobbyist person / notary person, etc., and sent things out to archives so they could be preserved.

Coming as it has after the negative press they received yesterday, it seems like all of this a lot of deflection and flak that the group is throwing out via their allies the liberal democrats, who are happy to use it to attack the GOP.

Maybe we need to take a harder look at why this is so. Because they both seem to have the same goal of defeating Republicans.

Sounds like we’re going further down the rabbit hole, according to the Argus Leader’s version of the Citizens for Liberty story:

South Dakota Citizens for Liberty, a Rapid City conservative advocacy group, named the lawmakers Monday as part of a legislative scorecard report. An official said the party switches raise questions about lawmakers’ commitment to conservative ideology.

“If a person changes their party affiliation and doesn’t change their philosophy, I think that’s something their constituents deserve to know,” said Tonchi Weaver, a lobbyist for the group.

and…

“I’ve never registered as a Democrat. I’ve always been a Republican,” said Rep. Jean Hunhoff, R-Yankton, who was named in the report. “I’ve never even heard of that group.”

and…

Weaver said Soholt should be excluded from caucusing with Republicans in Pierre, but Soholt was quick to defend herself on Facebook. Soholt wrote that the move away from the Republican Party came as an accident when she went to register for a new driver’s license and missed the box used to record party affiliation.

and…

“I’ve been a lifelong Republican. I was raised as a Republican and I’ve always run as a Republican,” said Sen. Jim White, R-Huron. “I think that my voting record speaks for itself and I have no idea what they’re trying to accomplish.”

Read it here.

Meanwhile, the GOP had this to say about the whole thing:

Republican Party Chairman Dan Lederman said that he “didn’t view the party change of former Democrats becoming Republicans as something to be ashamed of, but rather a badge of honor.”

“The South Dakota Republican Party has always been the party who has welcomed people with open arms, including Democrat legislators as former Senator Eldon Nygaard who became a Republican State Senator after being elected as a Democrat, as well as Senator Ryan Maher, who changed parties to Republican after being elected as a Democrat a number of years ago.”

Lederman continued, “If any more Democrats, especially legislators, want to switch from the party of obstructionists and join the political party of do-ers, I’m ready to sign them up today, and to welcome them in joining Republicans to get things accomplished for South Dakota.”

Read it here.

Stay tuned…