An article at Dakota Scout today has a few legislators howling about some Republicans were pointing out that they worked across the aisle to kill ridiculous legislation that none of their constituents had asked for:
“Want to know why so many pieces of good legislation died by only a few votes this year? Some Republicans openly worked with Democrats to undermine true conservative causes,” Rep. Logan Manhart, R-Aberdeen, posted on his social media pages Saturday.
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Peterson, R-Salem, said during a legislative forum in Vermillion that cooperation with Democrats helped block a push to establish criminal penalties for libraries that distribute harmful or obscene material to minors. The Legislature instead adopted a measure requiring an appeals process for challenging materials in school and public libraries.
“I wasn’t in leadership this year, but we still led within our group,” Peterson said, as reported by South Dakota Searchlight. “Collectively, we could get 36 to 42 votes between the Democrats and Republicans, and we did our job.”
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Manhart was not the only GOP member of the Legislature to bemoan Peterson’s remarks. Rep. Dylan Jordan, R-Clear Lake, also voiced disapproval on his social media account.
Despite the criticism from Representatives Logan Manhart and Dylan Jordan for legislators who have the audacity to work collaboratively on legislation, one should take note that Jim Eschenbaum, the Chairman of the SDGOP who spent 32 years as a Democrat who helped to support President Barack Obama twice, has somehow managed to escape the scorn of these two legislators acting as the legislature’s honor guard for ideological purity.
Not only had this long-time Democrat escaped their scorn, Rep. Jordan had recently promoted a legislative scorecard originating with a left-leaning group led by Obama voter Eschenbaum which directly attacked Republican legislators on his facebook page.
I guess I’m just not sure that we can trust their democrat radar, because it seems to be pretty selective.
Selective is precisely it.
“Rules for thee, never for me”
-The Crazy Far Right
Logan Manhart is among the most useless piles of semi-sentient excrement to disgrace the legislature.
Ouch (respectfully)
Manhart lacks maturity and critical thinking skills and will not serve SD properly unless those 2 things change.
I am not very hopeful
Oh.
Womp Womp right Logan? A common response to constituents.
Your tough guy act is comical. Nobody thinks you are tough, Logan. We know you are a candy ass and all this puffery just makes you look more weak, not less.
I heard Jordan votes however Manhart tells him to vote.
Is that before or after Dylan’s mom does his laundry?
Dylan I have asked you 4 times already to get off that computer, come out of the basement and take the garbage out! No more freeloading son!
No son! Freeloading off mom is not the same as Freedom!
MOOOOOOOOMMMM! Where’s my fake leather vest! I have to go DJ tonight!
C’mon mom. I won the election. I want my shirts pressed before I leave for Pierre.
Woah woah woah…… The vest is real leather.
I don’t think much of anything about DJ is real.
His stupidity is definitely real
The new crop of Republicans came here from somewhere else in their politics. The state where you used to have Democrats for Janklow and Republicans for Daschle, used to also have a lot of centrist unity. This was not tolerable for the John Birchers and ditto-heads of that era. They are the core group of MAGA – and very effective propaganda about BOTH parties being broken has ensured that both parties are in fact broken.
The current head of the GOP is no more or less Republican than any of the MAGA kleptocrats around him. A level of purity that WOULD matter in the Reagan era isn’t able to even be understood by this crowd today.
Let’s not forget, the eternal MAGA leader was also a Democrat, even gave money to Hillary.
trump was paying her back for the masterclass in deceit she gave him.
I’d like someone to ask Jim Eschenbaum the policies on which he preferred Obama to Mitt Romney. Abortion? Same Sex Marriage? Taxes? Obamacare? Energy policy?