“Pro-choice Jesus” and “Retaliation against SDSU” Democrat Kathy Tyler assumes replacement position on Ballot

Pat Powers

Former Democrat Legislator Kathy Tyler has apparently been named to the vacant Democrat House of Representatives position for Legislative District 4, where she enters the race with a lot of baggage from her previous stint in office.

What kind of baggage? Tyler is one of those candidates who won’t be able to stuff this kind of baggage under her seat or in an overhead bin, because it just does not play well among voters.

Lest we forget, one part of that was where she claimed in legislative committee that her parish priest told her Jesus was pro-choice, along with casting a number of votes in favor of abortion.

(Of course, her priest later noted that he said no such thing.)

Even crazier was where this former legislator for Brookings County admitted that she made a retaliatory vote against South Dakota State University, which resides in part of her District, that she explained  was actually”a vote of, uh, a retaliation type of thing.”:

Tyler felt the need to retaliate against South Dakota State University? Probably not the smartest move for her. (Not that anyone is accusing her of being smart )

Tyler is hauling a lot of odd shaped baggage into the District 4 race. Baggage that she’s going to find will be pretty hard to leave behind.

32 thoughts on ““Pro-choice Jesus” and “Retaliation against SDSU” Democrat Kathy Tyler assumes replacement position on Ballot”

      1. Interesting she is back for a 4th try. I went to the SOS site to look up election results.

        On her first try she beat Deutsch in a four-way race by 507 votes.
        Two years later Deutsch was the top vote-getter in a four-way race, defeating her by 836 votes.
        On her third try, in a two-way race two years later, Wiik defeated her by 2323 votes.

  3. What if a Catholic priest said that you will never get rid of Abortion and that it will still happen even if it were outlawed? Educate, prevent and if a single mother gives birth don’t demonize her and give her and that child every chance to succeed in life which means spending taxpayer money and provide resources.

  4. I wish her no luck whatsoever. On her claim of a pro-choice Jesus alone I would not want her to have any representative capacity for anyone. She is not somebody who deserves to make decisions for others. I am not worried that she has a shot, though, so I am comfortable in her run.

  5. A Catholic Democrat is an oxymoron. You can be one or the other but not both. The people who keeping trying to be both are suffering from a great deal of confusion and conflict, and should be pitied, because the cognitive dissonance is causing mental disturbances. It would be helpful to them if their clergy would simply explain this to them. They have to choose. Possibly this was what her priest meant when if he actually said Jesus is pro-choice, he meant she has to choose between being a Democrat or a Catholic, she has free will, and whether she goes to Heaven or Hell is her choice.

  6. Ah, yes, I didn’t realize the nastiness would start so early! A couple of clarifications to the misinformation about my vote: I could find one ‘anti-abortion’ bill in 2013, HB1237 which required counseling–I voted ‘yes.’ I also think there was an amendment in HB1214 that prohibited abortion being funding for Medicaid recipients. I vote ‘yes.’ I also voted ‘yes’ on HB 1162, which prevented sex selection abortions. I voted ‘yes’ again on HB 1158 which actually helped unborn children whose mothers weren’t legal immigrants, but the R’s killed it. I did vote ‘no’ on HB1180 which stated “An Act to provide that no entity that places children for adoption or performs abortions may be registered as a pregnancy help center,” a bill that made no sense to me. And while I am here, the SDRTL’s wasn’t totally ethical in their reporting of candidates in 2016. All candidates were either given a survey which was in the candidate overview OR they were graded on their voting record EXCEPT ONE…why wasn’t my voting record give a grade? Because it was too good of a grade.
    As for the ‘retaliatory’, I did change my mind and did vote for the facility at a later vote. Get your facts straight!

    1. yep someone else’s fault…SDRTL is wrong Democrat Kathy Tyler is right….personal responsibility…not so much

      1. I’m not abdicating responsibility…just stating a fact..SDRTL’s leadership, who claims to be ethical and promote openness, was not quite ethical in its grading of candidates. Membership did not see an ‘open’ government, so to speak.

      1. Kathy good luck in your race. Would like to see you back in Pierre serving in the legislature again.

      1. Good point….I did. One of those things I wish I could take back, but can’t. Would I do it again..no.

        1. My ‘facts’ were straight…by the way. I was listing my voting record. No hypocrisy intended. I apologize if you took it that way.

          1. So you go both ways on a bill in order to tell Republicans you are conservative and then tell Democrats you are liberal?

            1. That sounds very similar to what Sutton is doing.

              Kathy apologizes for several things except for lying. We get blamed for being “confused”, SDRL gets blamed because they didn’t score her according to her standards and something about facts getting in the way.

              1. I have told no lies. SDRL leadership didn’t ‘score’ me at all … I would think that someone who is touting ethics as part of his platform would show ethics in all that he does. I’m not blaming anyone…just stating what happened. Like I’ve said, if you want to know where I stand, ask….I’ll tell you. Quit making assumptions.

                1. According to the article, which includes a recording, you claim Jesus is pro-choice and that this lie was supported by your priest. Do you know whose 1st language is also lies?

                  Where you stand is on a foundation of lies… serving the Democrats well.

            2. Like I said, I messed up…no excuses. Has nothing to do with liberal vs conservative. I’m one of the most conservative Democrats you will ever meet.

      2. And, she did exactly the same thing to HB 1162. She voted for it but testified against it in committee. She forgot that fact too. And, she also forgot that her and her pro-life pal, Peggy Gibson, manufactured and then voted for an amendment to gut HB 1162 by turning it into a resolution. She received a D for her 67% pro-life voting record during the 2013-14 session. If this rating has one failing, it is that it does not adequately capture the degree to which Kathy Tyler is a two-faced liar when it comes to pro-life bills and her record. During her brief tenure in Pierre, she managed to testify in committee against three pro-life bills or 50% of the pro-life bills she saw. Did she accidentally stumble into the committee room? Did she forget that the testimony is recorded? I thought she was going to be a pro-life Democrat when she got in. Rarely has my intuition on a candidate been so wrong, but then again, Kathy Tyler will tell you anything she thinks that you want to hear. I would imagine her prospective constituents get the same Kathy Tyler treatment.

        1. She is exhibiting all the derangements of a person who is trying to be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time. I have forgotten which Bishop
          reportedly told Tom Daschle he needed to stop calling himself a Catholic. We need more of that.

          The Church has been too silent for too long about this, being more concerned about saving their tax-exempt status than in saving souls.

          1. Agreed.

            Christians who support and lie about abortion have erased faith from their heart and allowed evil to replace it. Democrats also have a long history of lying to women about how important men/fathers are. Dems’ policies incentivize women to give their rights up to the govt – it becomes head of their household per se. And they claim to be for ‘women’s rights’, what a joke.

            Evil always works overtime.

              1. Call it what you will, but facts and stats back my statement up. Want to know for yourself? Start with comparing the Rep and Dem platforms.

                #walkaway.

                  1. Everything is always connected to Russian for leftists. You must get your news from Twitter. A 30sec search finds the man who started the movement… Brandon Straka. You stay with the Dems, they like the easily manipulated type. Lockstep.

  7. Was going to comment, but not worth the effort. You won’t listen anyway and a decent discussion cannot be held with ‘Anonymous’s’ (?) Good night.

    1. Kathy, this place is a cesspool. There are a few loud mouths who seem to think they represent a large group of voter’s beliefs but they don’t. If you asked 20 voters about this site, you’d be lucky if one heard of it. It’s not worth anyone’s time trying to debate in this echo chamber. Let them be bullies and just don’t even visit. You have better things to do. That is coming from someone who probably would agree with your positions only 20% of the time. I just hate to see how the alt right republican apologists behave these days. Gone are the days of family values and Christian morals in the republican party. It’s sad to see where they are taking our party. More and more are ready to bring back some integrity to the party and get rid of the hookers and Russians.

      1. “I just hate to see how the alt right republican apologists behave these days.”

        No, you are incorrectly accusing the right for the actions of liberal Republicans. Rejecting Christian morals is a policy position of liberals.

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