Republican Congressional candidate Dusty Johnson is going on the air tomorrow with a new ad in both a :30 and :60 second version titled “National Debt”

The ad, which provides Dusty telling the story of what our national debt means to his sons is reminiscent of the national debt ad that his predecessor in Congress, Kristi Noem, found great success with in her election against Stephanie Herseth.

With early voting in progress and less than 45 days to go, things are only going to heat up in the remaining days of the election!

Law Enforcement Stand with Jackley in New Statewide Ad

PIERRE, SD: In a new statewide TV ad launched this week, sheriffs tell South Dakota that Attorney General Marty Jackley is the best choice for governor.

“He’s certainly the only candidate for governor that’s tackled crime head-on,” said Yankton County Sheriff Jim Vlahakis. “That’s why so many in law enforcement are standing with him now—because we know the kind of governor he will be.”

In a growing wave of support from the law enforcement community, Jackley has received endorsements from 62 of 66 county sheriffs across South Dakota.

“I look for someone who’s going to be conservative and has a thumb on the heartbeat of the whole state,” said Butte County Sheriff Fred Lamphere. “He’s cowboy enough to be governor.”

The ad also features Corson County Sheriff Keith Gall and Faulk County Sheriff Kurt Hall.

“I’ve come to know and respect men and women from every county in this state who put on the uniform and protect South Dakota,” Jackley said. “It’s been a privilege to work with them as attorney general, and I will be a tireless advocate for law enforcement as governor.”

Watch the new statewide ad on youtube here or on facebook here.

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From facebook, it looks like Senator Stace Nelson is working hard to win friends and influence people among his fellow caucus members in the Republican State Senate, as he blasts State Senator Gary Cammack in a primary across the state from him:

Just caught this post in my facebook feed.

Apparently Congressional hopeful Neal Tapio is co-branding his campaign alongside President Trump via using both names on highway signs:

What do you think?

Going into the final hours of the campaign, the Paul TenHaken has posted an update for their supporters and followers of the election:

MARTY JACKLEY REPEATEDLY BREAKS CLEAN CAMPAIGN PLEDGE

Breaking his so-called “clean” campaign pledge, Marty Jackley has repeatedly launched unprovoked, false, and misleading attacks on Kristi Noem.

“It’s become abundantly clear by his actions that Marty Jackley’s pledge was nothing more than a campaign stunt,” said Justin Brasell, Kristi for Governor Campaign Manager. “He attacked Kristi three days after claiming he’d run a clean campaign, and he’s been attacking her ever since.”

Jackley Pledge: “South Dakotans deserve a clean and honest campaign.”
3 DAYS LATER… Jackley attacks Noem for not signing his Clean Campaign Pledge.

Jackley Pledge: “I will conduct a factual and honest campaign.”
JACKLEY ACTIONS, March 24: Jackley falsely accuses Noem of supporting a $1.3 trillion spending bill. Noem voted NO on the bill.

Jackley Pledge: “I will be honest and forthcoming about my own record…”
JACKLEY ACTIONS, March 5: Jackley issues first campaign ad, which claims he created the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. But a June 2004 BIT agency review committee meeting reports: “In July 2002, Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) was created under BIT [Bureau of Information and Telecommunications Agency] and then was moved in May 2003 to the Attorney General’s office.” Jackley was not appointed as Attorney General until 2009.

Jackley Pledge: “I will not engage in, permit, fund or condone any negative, misleading or defamatory attacks against my opponent.”
JACKLEY ACTIONS, March 23, 29; April 24: Marty Jackley misleadingly claimed Noem didn’t support South Dakota’s most recent case before the Supreme Court, despite her signing a formal brief supporting South Dakota’s position. Reports from inside the courtroom may help explain Jackley’s reason for going negative, however. Leading tax publication, Tax Notes reports: “Jackley could not keep up with the amount of inquiries directed at him on why the Supreme Court should be the one to settle the issue.”

Just had a friend send this over.. in case you wanted to see some of the campaign material being passed around at the moment:

So many mistakes…. you should NEVER replace part of the name with a graphic element. It makes it difficult to read, much less without dropping a shadow on it.

NAME & OFFICE are the most important thing to be advertising on the piece, yet office is separate from the name and demoted to be just a minor element on the front of the piece. Here’s a name in big letters, but you have to search for office. That’s assuming a lot more interest than people actually have.

There’s lots of minor things I’d do, such as reducing the number of fonts for starters, and cleaning up that mess in the middle of the second page. (What is that? Random internet things?)

But one of the most glaring errors is the fact that there is no disclaimer on this piece. In some cases, leaving that off might violate law. Never do that. I know of no laws or ordinances of South Dakota that dictate font size. Just that it has to be there.

So there you go. Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

A few things happening in the race for Attorney General on the Republican side of the aisle.

I shared a table with John Fitzgerald on Friday night at the Lincoln Day Dinner, and he happened to hit delegates with a mailer on Saturday, touting his bonafides, and his endorsement from Pennington County State’s Attorney Mark Vargo:

While Lance Russell and his wife were at the Brookings County Lincoln Dinner, they had an event for one of their daughters, and had a stand-in at the Mitchell Dinner on Saturday, where I’m told Senator Stace Nelson credited Lance for being his mentor.:

And of course, AG Candidate Jason Ravnsborg was on the trail pressing the flesh and speaking to delegates in both Mitchell and Brookings:

It’s been a while. Time to turn the crazy up to 11.

When Lora Hubbel isn’t out there promoting crank anti-vaxxer theories, so we can return to the days of death by measles and people being paralyzed by polio, the State Senate candidate wants to ‘educate’ voters that Government is stealing their gold and rubies. And military patents:

Um. okay…..    (About the only thing I think I can believe from this is that South Dakota is better than North Dakota.)

And, it gets better. According to Lora, Governments might be preparing to use Geneaology DNA to track down Christians:

This one was too funny not to include.

I hate to break it to Lora…

Trail of Tears: 1831–1850.
Republican Party… Founded: March 20, 1854, (Ripon, WI)

I like Republicans too. But time travel is not within our grasp.

And that’s one of the Republicans running for District 9 State Senate. Not much more to say about this.. except for God’s sake, make a donation today to:

STEINHAUER FOR SOUTH DAKOTA
26581 East Shore Place 
Hartford, SD 57033

Because as Lora Hubbel has demonstrated time and again, she’s unfit to serve in any capacity in any public office.

We’re down to counting the hours before the Sioux Falls Mayoral Runoff election, and there’s been a flurry of activity taking place this weekend as the campaigns try to wrap up their support and turn out their voters on May 1st.

Paul TenHaken’s campaign is quite the flurry of activity.

Friday Night, an advocacy call went out from Congresswoman Kristi Noem endorsing and supporting Paul in the Mayoral race among all of the campaign’s other activity.

Saturday was a big day, with door knocking, calls, and signs. Lots and lots of signs.  The TenHaken campaign was asking volunteers to come in between 10-4 for door knocking, etcetera.  I was in Sioux Falls, and popped in just to be nosy.  It was a constant stream of people coming in asking for TenHaken signs to put in their yard.

The campaign wasn’t recruiting these people – they were coming and asking for signs!

This morning, while the newspaper seemed to be silent with advertising from TenHaken’s opponent Jolene Loetscher (or at least it wasn’t noticeable) Paul TenHaken had a massive ad on the back of the Voices Section with businesswomen, elected officials, wives, mothers, and other community leaders who all support Paul:

While TenHaken was showing his support on Saturday, his opponent Jolene Loetscher spent her evening doing something else at the Democrat Patry’s big McGovern Dinner:

5. Mayoral candidate embraces party affiliation

In a surprise appearance, mayoral candidate Jolene Loetscher spoke to attendees and said that while her race is nonpartisan, she felt she could embrace her Democratic party affiliation since the state Republican Party has campaigned for her opponent.

Read that here.

So, the Liberal Democrat candidate for mayor is now deciding to embrace the fact that she’s a liberal Democrat? …..Because we somehow didn’t know before…?

Hang on for Tuesday!