Senator Taffy Howard’s committee, the Legislature’s Government Operations and Audit Committee, was today demanding that the Secretary of State appear in front of their committee with regards to a contract between the office and voting equipment vendor KNOWiNK.
It appears as if the election goofballs at SD Canvassing have been planning on hijacking the meeting, since they made a graphic up for it and had posted the following to social media in the last few weeks…
..making specific note to mention they claim it could “connect to George Soros,” as if that’s going to make them sound more sane? Keep in mind that this is the same group that’s running Heather Baxter for SOS because Baxter is willing to indulge their nuttery, and Secretary of State Monae Johnson isn’t.
Unfortunately for the election conspiracists, the Secretary of State had actual work to do today, as she noted in a statement the office released to the media:
“We’ve consistently answered every question GOAC has asked over the past several months, and many of the current topics are rehashing issues we’ve already addressed.
My staff and I are at a county auditor training that has been scheduled for two years. The staff who would accompany me to GOAC would also be testifying, but they are attending this training.
We have not been served a subpoena and therefore have not seen any specific requests. Once we are formally served, we will review and respond accordingly.
In the meantime, I am fulfilling my duties by serving the people of South Dakota and help training the county auditors I work with daily.”
I’ll have to go back and listen to the audio, but given that Taffy was part of the group that is demanding that the governor cut spending by 5%, after she was personally proposing an entire package of new taxes, one would think she has more important work to do than to indulge a special interest group’s goofiness.
That graphic looks more like an invite to a rave rather than a meeting reminder.
Cue the techno music in GOAC.
If you have never seen young Ms. Howard’s dresses or Ms. Mulally’s eye glitter at Cosmic Bowling under the black lights at the Robbinsdale Bowl over on East St. Pat, where they turn the lights down, and turn the fun and music up, you are missing out on one heck of a thing to see!
If cuts are necessary, we should be looking at all of the summer studies that cost taxpayers a lot of money while providing certain, select legislators with full time jobs.
It’s unfortunate that the very people who claim to be supporting voting security are doing their level best to undermine voter’s trust. Every claim they’ve made, thus far, has been totally discredited.
Once again, these claims began with the White House and nobody has the guts to say so. You keep splitting hairs to ignore where the problem originated and people are tired of it.
a bunch of whackadoodles, for sure. SOS Johnson is a nice lady, but the irony here is that her same supporters from a few years ago now may have quite a good chance at taking her out at convention.
That is the sad truth. These that are the true RINOs eat their own.
The so called TRUE republicans are leftists in disguise, so they are the real RINOs.
You’re a rino
Well they were only supporters because she refused to say Biden beat Trump. And Trump has never discouraged crazy Mike Lindell that I’m aware of. And of course, “Frankly, we did win this election.” It’s all cut from the same Republican cloth.
Mike Lindell had a successful business that was growing and was once considered a serious candidate for MN Governor. He had a great story and made a great sales pitch. Mike fell hook line and sinker for Trump’s election fraud scheme where the MAGA Wack-A-Doodle mind virus infection took hold with Mike going off the deep end destroying his business.
Wow.
Sad day for our beloved SD.
What is their end goal?
Same as Bridget’s in minnehaha county.
Which is what?
Speaking of Loons, isn’t Lora Hubbelspacecraft due back for her biennial run for something?