If you go looking for State Democrat platforms and resolutions from the 2018 convention, which allegedly took place nearly a month ago now, you’d be hard pressed to find evidence that a convention took place, looking at Democrat’s state party website.

On the website, it appears they have not held a mass gathering of that nature since 2016. We know they actually had an event; it was in the news where they talked a Republican into running as their number two democrat on the ticket at the time.

But the states’ media still awaits the Democrat party’s release of their official platform moving forward through 2018, as well as those things Democrats meeting as a whole have resolved to do.

Apparently it was acceptable to release those things two years ago according to the Democrat website. But now in these times where open government has been demanded and expected, Democrats have shirked their duties, and have yet to release the issues they have determined to be important moving forward.

The question now is what portions of the platform are Dems desperately trying to keep under lock and key, and out of the site of every day votes? Are they promoting radical departure from the will of the state on issues such as abortion? Is there a plan to call for the full legalization of drugs, and mandate gender neutral studies in kindergarten?

I could go on, but I suspect the truth is far more sinister than reality.

Because, why else would they try to hide it for so long?

Get ready! Starting tomorrow, Dakotawarcollege.com is going to be coming to you from our Nation’s Capital, including stops around the town, and a visit with our Washington Delegation.

In looking at Lora Hubbel’s Facebook page, I find myself in a quandary.  Which thing did the Constitution Party Candidate for Governor say on Facebook yesterday should I feature?

Do I feature the whack-a-doodle comment she made about “Masonry” being the force behind America’s ruin…

Or do I feature the somewhat racist comment she made about “little black babies”:

The Constitution Party Convention is on July 14th.

Stay tuned.

Had a reader send me this from yesterday’s Sioux Falls Parade supposedly with Dem Congressional Candidate Tim Bjorkman riding and waving from a BMW convertible:

As “Beemer Bjorkman” was riding along waving,  Dusty Johnson was pounding the pavement out in Belle Fourche:

Update: one of Bjorkman’s family members says in the comment section that it was a volunteer who slapped magnets on a BMW, and not his father, who was at another parade at the time.

I wasn’t there, so I’ll take his word for it. Still.. volunteer or no, I’m not sure what kind of image that projects. And image is everything in politics.

From Twitter, it looks like South Dakota Democrat Executive Director Sam Parkinson is explaining what the 4th of July means to him with a movie quote:

Er..yeah. Apparently the 4th of July means revisionist history and trying to explain away freedom and American Exceptionalism to the dem leader. Kind of sums up why no one wants to vote democrat anymore.

I brought some Cheese. Did someone have something to go with it?

Here we go. Looks like today, State Senator Stace Nelson is bringing some whine to the after-convention party. You know, that convention where he was attacking Kristi Noem’s choice for Lt. Governor, and tried to run against him.

I guess that after attacking literally everyone in the Republican party, especially many of the GOP’s statewide candidates, constantly calling anyone in spitting distance RINO’s, running his hand-selected legislative candidates to knock out legislators who oppose him, calling fellow Republicans corrupt, standing with Rick Weiland, trafficking with liberal democrat Cory Heidelberger, voting with the Democrats in the State Senate, and seeking their help on legislation, Republican donors are supposed to run to Senator Nelson with bags of cash for his re-election?

And lest we forget, after taking pride in voting no on everything, Senator Nelson is upset that organizations (or their lobbyists) have no interest in supporting him. Apparently in his world, groups that employ lobbyists are supposed to kiss his @$$ and give him money just because he’s a self-important State Senator. Instead of what they actually do, which is support candidates whom they feel support their legislative measures.  And to him, anything less is ‘blacklisting?’

If Senator Nelson is upset because no one he regularly attacks or votes against has an interest in making campaign contributions to him, might I suggest he send a fundraising letter to the South Dakota Democrat Party?   Certainly, the evidence shows that’s who he’s standing with and providing the most support for.

Because he sure isn’t supporting any Republicans lately.