FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Fall River and Oglala Lakota States Attorney Jim Sword Endorses Ravnsborg for Attorney General
HOT SPRINGS, SD: Hot Springs attorney and Fall River and Oglala Lakota States Attorney Jim Sword has endorsed Attorney General Candidate Jason Ravnsborg.
“Jason is an experienced leader who understands that we need someone as Attorney General that can handle a wide variety of cases from prosecuting, to defending to civil cases in both state and federal court,” Sword said. “He also understands the position is larger than the courtroom and is one where you have to have the temperament and skills to work with legislators to build a coalition to assist States Attorneys and members of law enforcement in obtaining the resources they need to keep us all safe in a wide variety of areas.”
Sword lives in Hot Springs where he is a partner of Sword and Ahrendt Law Office, P.C. He prosecutes in Fall River and Oglala Lakota County and also represents individuals, businesses and government entities before state and federal courts. In addition Sword defends clients in Pennington, Custer, Bennett counties and throughout the Northern Black Hills. He is a former chairman of the Fall River County Child Protection Team and Board of Directors member of the Alcohol Recovery Center of the Black Hills.
“Jason has been battled tested both on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan in service to our country and in the courtroom.” Sword stated. “Having served in the United States Army as a Captain myself, I know they do not just make anyone a Battalion Commander, they select people that lead from the front selflessly, with strong moral character and work with a staff to oversee hundreds of people with many challenging situations happening at the same time.”
Sword went on to say “Jason is the only candidate that I see that has all of these skills, he will make an outstanding Attorney General and has my full endorsement and support.”
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“Battled tested” huh, which ones?
Ramadi?
Fallujah?
Spelling bee?
Wasn’t this Sword guy a Democrat just 4 or 5 years ago?
He was awarded a bronze star. Were you?
Are you kidding me the guy’s been deployed multiple times to combat zones…. I think him and Sattgast are the only veterans in the races.
Isn’t that Lance Russell’s home county?
Yep, I think Lance has someone playing in his backyard ; )
Pretty low to try to minimize the service of a guy whose been overseas defending our country. Just say you are for Russell or Fitzgerald and be done with it.
“who has”-my bad.
former democrats are my favorite kind.
Ravensborg vs Seiler will be great!
Sword hates Russell. They used to be great friends I believe. What happened?
I believe they were college roommates or something like that.
Nice! It’s great to see someone working so hard to get out and meet everyone in the state. Go Jason!
He is a hard worker.
Why not support Fitz?
I would put Sword up against any broken down Marine.
Sure, Jason R. is a nice guy and I would never minimize his military experience, but the reason he is piling up endorsements is because he’s been campaigning for the last 3 years. He does NOT have anywhere near the legal experience that the other 3 have. They’ve been working in the courtroom and/or the Capitol and actually accomplishes things while Ravnsborg works on his campaign. As a GOP candidate, to have an endorsement from a liberal democrat attorney who dislikes his neighbor Russell’s conservative politics, I would say is a minus not a plus.
@also a delegate. Seriously, he does not have enough legal experience, are you living under a rock? You sound like a member of Fitzgerald’s team that pushes his only quality of being a lawyer and trying to undermine Ravnsborg’s law experience. He has an extensive career as a lawyer and still practices law daily just like the other two candidates.
All I read on the blogs from Russell and Fitzgerald supporters are weak arguments against Ravnsborg and more pettiness because he is the only one out there trying to talk with people to learn from and make our state a better place if elected.
Instead of Fitzgerald and Russell being jealous that Ravnsborg has more support around the state than them because he has EARNED it, why don’t they get off their “seats” and go talk to people and offer up anything because they are a lawyer.
Can we stop with the tact of calling people who criticize Ravnsborg members of a different campaign? The McCarthyist tact is weak and there are better arguments to make.
Well the thing is it is true that the other campaigns are lying about his record. I asked him about it at the central committee meeting and he showed me proof— screenshots actually of one of the other campaigns lying about his record—
I thought…man if he released those it be devastasting.
It appears that you have a lot of excuses for not garnering the support of respected South Dakotan’s. Do you want a candidate who has demonstrated he is willing to work as hard as he can as a candidate, a military leader, and successful attorney with a wide swath of legal experience (think that work ethic may transfer to the job as attorney general?) or a candidate who rests on his laurels as an “courtroom” attorney who has done a lot of trial in the same office and the same county or a representative who does not appear to have one piece of meaningful piece of legislation attached to his name. I don’t know if you have hired anyone in your professional career, if so, I can only imagine the caliber of the employees you have hired. In my observation of the campaigns, I am guessing Jason out works all the other candidates in terms of time spent and performance in the office and still out works the other candidates on the campaign trail..
At any rate, I don’t know how helpful it is to the other candidates to highlight that they are not able to work hard enough to gain meaningful support across the state and that they deserve the job because they are otherwise entitled. You sound a little more like a democratic (maybe even a millennial democrat) than a conservative.
ravnsborg made a lot of friends during his last statewide adventure in the u-s senate race, and he doesn’t have some of the baggage others in the race have. i like the guy a lot.
Mr. Ravnsborg has been to my office twice in the last 6 months. Its almost a 5 hour drive from his home. Other than what I have read online, I have received nothing from the other candidates. To me, that speaks volumes. I am not saying I expect them to knock on my front door, but it seems like they don’t even have a campaign. Trying to minimize his legal experience is hogwash. He has been there, and he has done that.
Not according to most practicing lawyers. Just saying.
Wait…you polled all the practicing lawyers in the state? Was this some Survey Monkey thing I missed in my e-mail? Or did you just poll the “working state’s attorneys” which would be less than 70…unless you are only counting the full-time SA’s who don’t have to do things like work to make ends meet…
Ravnsborg is goofy.
He’s a really hard worker. Maybe he’s our guy. If lance and fitz aren’t calling hoffman’s then what are they doing?
They do have campaigns but they also have full-time jobs and families to support.
Working means you work. You don’t drive around the state because you have nothing to do. If you drive 70,000 miles you do the math, you wouldn’t have time to have a legal career. How long would it take
At 65 mph it would be 1,076 hours…if we assume he works a 40 hour week that would leave him 1,004 hours per year to pursue his legal work, but, if as most private practice lawyers in South Dakota do he puts in 60 hours a week (not unheard of when you are responsible to make your money by billing) he is working approximately 2,044 hours per year on the law…of course a lot of legal work is also conducted with phone calls and those are easily made in today’s world with our cellular inter-connectivity, so we could safely assume that a healthy portion of driving hours are also devoted to legal work…hmmm…where did I put my calculator,,,,
You have one guy with a 40 Hour Week state job that he’s had for 35 years yeah that doesn’t say comfortable at all and not challenging oneself…. versus a guy who has like one case…. guy who’s got an operating practice, prosecutes, also runs Battalion and is running all over the state yeah I know who I would hire no-brainer —-I don’t think these other guys could keep up with Jason for a week…. heck I know I couldn’t…. when did we become whiny and want to punish people that work hard last I checked we were Republicans and we we rewarded people that worked hard
How many criminal jury trials has he done? I’ve heard this question going around.
He says he doesn’t keep track. Too many to remember off the top of his head.
His detractors say few or 1.
Which is it?
Does it matter? Probably not if the others aren’t calling delegates.
This question was asked at the Lawrence county GOP AG forum a few weeks ago.
Ok…let’s put the over/under at 2, how many AG candidates have passed the South Dakota bar exam?
Isn’t it 3?
Don’t you have to have passed the bar exam to be a practicing attorney?
Not for the Fitzgerald family
Why do you people attack Johns family? Whatever he’s doing he should keep it up, he’s got someone worried. Worried enough to attack his wife and kids. Now we all know what kind of person the other side is, sad.
Maybe his family should stop attaching others as Mary seems to be doing a lot of attacking people for giving support to anyone else besides her husband Fitzgerald.
Don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house1
Good lord.. please stop. Every post I do on the AG’s race just devolves into anonymous bickering.