It sounds like convention chaos has already kicked off.
The word I am hearing is that infamous state legislator and awful person Phil Jensen will be challenging Watertown Mayor Reid Holien at the South Dakota Republican Party convention for the office of party national committeeman.
A Rapid City woman, Amber Christianson, has supposedly also made an announcement for Public Utilities Commission, challenging sitting PUC Commissioner Kristi Fiegen.
Over/under on Fisticuffs by lunchtime tomorrow? grudznick heard 62% from my good friend Bob, the only Libertarian bookie I have contact with.
Phil Jensen from Rapid City is a disgrace. He advocates for allowing racial discrimination, as shown by his vile SB 128 bill, which was condemned by his own party. His association with the far-right militia group, the Oath Keepers, further proves his extremist and hateful nature. His views are a stain on South Dakota.
find out if this Amber Christianson has signed any anti-pipeline petitions
Lol. I guess it’s highly probable that this is the same Amber who loves going round-for-round in any NIMBY COA citizen’s property rights, nuisance, trespass, and the like with Fiegen and crew time and time again. How many public tax dollars have these two already wasted (FOI???)🤑🤮
Well, this sure will stir up that nice uninhabited office of KF’s in the Capitol for a good period of what I suspect would be a short lived democratic libertarian presence being felt up in an otherwise seemingly secure comfortable domicile of three. It is safe to say that this wildness would place a chink in the chain and clang the armor around quite a bit and it stands to reason that the three commissioners and the public could likely benefit from a chunk of unexpected change no matter the duration.
Seriously if she is on record anywhere as being opposed to a utility siting, having her on the PUC means the state will have to pay her to be recused and out in the hall twiddling her thumbs or playing video games.
This is something which needs to be known before the election
I’m legitimately curious where you’re seeing that requirement, Anne. Having had a conflict of opinion isn’t the same as having had a conflict of interest. The law specifically calls out those with a business stake in any matter as ineligible to adjudicate, not those who have exercised their First Amendment rights on a particular topic.
I have actually done a post on that before.
https://dakotawarcollege.com/democrat-public-utilities-commission-candidate-might-have-just-disqualified-himself-from-co2-pipeline-hearings-at-the-onset-of-his-race/oh
Very interesting bit of case law. Thanks a) for doing that research, and b) for remembering in this moment that you’d already done it.
Now, in my non-lawyer opinion, that particular decision reads less like a clear judicial precedent / litmus test for disqualification, and more like a one-off case, but it is very intriguing to see how the past court did rule when such a case was brought before it.
I’m just glad I don’t have to be the one to decide the arbitrary threshold at which point it becomes problematic. Bias is inevitable. One could easily make the argument that if you own a gasoline-powered automobile, you are biased toward oil pipelines because you rely on them as part of your vehicle’s supply chain.
Citizens really should understand that without an opinion a politician is simply what our beautiful governor is now. Sound bytes of refusing to say anything by saying nothing of import, ever, in a repeated cycle of similar verbiage. Fiegen walks in these muted shoes currently. Getting paid to pretend to not have an opinion or not being allowed to discuss any item of contention on all things important. These cop-outs on expressing a position are getting redundantly boring. It certainly helps if you are gorgeous. The public will tolerate the puffery longer.
Who is the guy camping out in an old semi truck?
Me.
You are not old, just the semi is!
Nice to see you’re paying attention.
his group crossed the line with the continued backing of Trump and the negative feedback on the legal system, which most in Pierre are part of.
All the while Gravel Pit Princess stirs the pot which causes more and more to fall in line with the Devil Boy. The only reason that I stick around is to vote in the primary.