South Dakota Republican Party Chairman Dan Lederman had some words about Citizens for Liberty lobbyist Tonchi Weaver over her attacks on South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem which were covered in a recent Rapid City Journal Column:
In a recent column, Citizens for Liberty lobbyist Tonchi Weaver spent a good number of column inches attacking Governor Kristi Noem for allowing people to exercise self-determination. Weaver tried to claim some great conspiracy of the Governor’s when the COVID epidemic first hit when Kristi suggested in an executive order that the sick and elderly take COVID seriously and stay home for three weeks to help flatten the curve of death and severe illness. In that same executive order, Kristi also suggested people wash their hands and eat well-balanced meals.
I feel compelled to tell people that despite Weaver’s alarmist column, no one who failed to wash their hands or who ate an extra dessert when COVID first hit was unjustly persecuted by the state.
The simple truth is that Governor Kristi Noem has valued and done her utmost to preserve individual rights during one of the most challenging episodes in our nation’s history. She did so at the onset of a pandemic for which there was no preventative treatment, and she continues to do so now after our nation has developed vaccines which are effective in preventing COVID for most who receive them.
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Liberty is defined as the ability to follow one’s own will to achieve their potential. Maybe Citizens for Liberty should actually follow the word in their title.
Weaver is off the mark in her criticism
of Governor Noem!
Lederman is displaying his support and demonstrates his leadership!
In 2014, South Dakotans had the liberty to vote for Constitution Party candidates, and more than 12,000 of us did.
In 2018, Dan Lederman worked in tandem with obviously bogus “nominee for governor” Terry LaFleur and sued the Republican secretary of state to prevent her from certifying six legitimate Constitution Party nominees for the general election.
The party couldn’t afford to “intervene” in the lawsuit, and the attorney general’s office mounted no serious defense, and now South Dakotans don’t have the liberty to vote for Constitution Party candidates at all.
Someone needs their head examined.
Lederman is the reason we still have Jason as AG.
Because he can tell elected officials what to do? Cool. What other super-powers does he have?
How is any of this on topic?
We’re you at the convention? Did you have a vote? Did you witness the side meetings that went on between the candidates? If not please enlighten us with your proof.
Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.
Ronald Reagan
President Reagan didn’t have the batch of rinos we have today.
Everyone who disagrees with me is a RINO. I am the arbiter of the GOP
No…..your just stupid.
You’re
This was so perfectly ironic that I want to frame it.
Someone should impress that on the citizens for liberty & their ilk.
I recommend capitalizing citizens for liberty. Otherwise it appears you have beef with advocates of liberty who are legal citizens of the US, unlike so many imported H1B and other nonresidents who are taking some of our best future proof jobs.
At first you said “Elk”.
Then I thought, “delicious.”
But I was incorrect.
I stand corrected.
But I’m still hungry.
thou shall speak ill of any fellow Republican
Donald Trump
Ms. Tonchi is among the insanest of them all. We Conservatives with Common Sense are please that Ms. Tonchi is clearly among the least smart as well.
grudznick – hater of (pure) democracy, surfer of (psychiatric) couches, and administrator of the incognito IQ (and history, and algebra) test.
“heyyyyyy .. whao.” — Fonzie
Mr. Dales you and Mrs. Weaver would be welcomed by my friend Bob, Lar and Mrs. Volesky over at the Libertarians. 5G could be part of their platform.
It’s time real Republicans tell Tonchi and her ilk to take a hike. They aren’t conservatives. They are Republicans in any recognizable form of the word. They are nuts. Crazy wannabes that appear to hate South Dakota.
After the next election, we should be rid of those cancerous haters
Dear Mr. Schoenbeck;
I can’t say for sure, but banter like this would not win you my grandma’s vote.
Rest her soul.
Sincerely,
John
Truth is truth. Only liberals and nut jobs want votes from lies.
For suggesting that people should be allowed to make their own medical decisions without their paychecks being held up as ransom? That’s what is compelling the leader of the Senate to stoop to the level of calling those he disagrees with “cancerous”?
Weaver and her “ilk” are the typical trump- stains of today….
Instead of Lederman v Weaver….what do you think of what they actually said?
Tonchi talks a lot of smack about so-called RINOs at the same time she’s happy to get paid to carry petitions to raise taxes.
If I went to the Tucson zoo and watched the chimps .. and the zookeepers had given them too much gazpacho, expired beans, and hot salsa, we would have this comments section right now.
I think most people would be shocked at how well chimps can throw. I was. And their manners.
EGADS!
Mr. Dale said
And then he said
Mr. Dale, did you or did you not go to the Tucson zoo and can you provide a better description of what you saw, if you did indeed go and watch the chimps.
There was a time long ago when a Brown County employee said publicly that she could easily hack into any Wells Fargo account. I’m not exactly sure what led up to that profound statement but after asking a good friend of mine at WF why they aren’t rebutting her accusations he replied; “Yeah we sure could Charlie but why even give her another mouthpiece to blow making people possibly wonder if she might be right after thinking she’s a bit crazy”!
Exactly. No reason to give this person any attention. It is what she craves.
I hate to break it to all of you, but most of South Dakota identifies as republican. With that said, we can clearly see the notion of “if we just had control, all our problems will be solved” is a fallacy. When can we move past this black and white world and actually get a government that works for the people of South Dakota? There has been this cronyism passed down since Janklow was AG, yet we still can still blame all the problems on some Washington radical or “other side”. This is OUR problem, we need to stop pointing the finger at someone else, if Kristi can’t get the job done and wants to work in Washington, we may have to vote for the other party. I’ll take checks and balances over corruption any day.
Anonymous at 8:37 AM
it is characteristic of “Citizens For Liberty and Their Ilk” that any outcome they don’t like is evidence of corruption, because it is impossible for them to comprehend anybody who comes to a conclusion or makes a decision other than what matches their own.
They can’t imagine that they don’t have all the pertinent information or that they could be wrong. So everything is “corruption.”
Well, it’s not, and you’re wrong.
All these people who post as anonymous don’t have the backbone to back up what they say . They are cowards !
About the only thing that could make this worse is a clown car full of Westboro Baptist folks.