State Senator Jim Mehlhaff told Dakota News Now that he believes if South Dakota tells someone they’re open for business, we should honor our word in reference to House Bill 1052:
“My concern is the chilling effect that will have on South Dakota as a business-friendly state. You make all the changes to make it impossible to complete their project and have to walk away from all that money, I think it’ll be generations before anybody will invest a nickel in this state,” Mehlhaff (R) Pierre said.
Mehlhaff added that he will be working hard with his caucus to oppose the bill as it goes through the Senate.
Not an unreasonable position. At all.
Unfortunately, that line of logic was read by the person who a commenter recently dubbed the Pipeline Greta Thunberg who declared his position was obscene!
In other words, how dare he say such an obscene thing! About refusing to change the rules mid-stream.
Already a long session.
Is her level of anger dependent on her payment sliding scale? Fischbach must have written her a big fat check this time, for her to bust out her thesaurus and use a big words like “obscene”, outside her usual “doncha know!”
Shes probably getting paid by out of state Attorney Brian Jorde…hes charging landowners hundreds to “Fight the pipeline ” while making sure it’s dragging out way longer than it should be… They are 2 of a kind! Both claiming to be for the landowners while padding their own pockets!!
this is a new chapter in the popular kids book “everyone i hate is hitler”.
Senator Mehlhaff is very right. If this legislature kills all business we’re headed for some rough times ahead.
Can we still not mention the fact that until they are deemed a common carrier, they won’t have the ability to use eminent domain any way. Singling them out is ridiculous and a horrible look. This session, we are looking every bit the backwards Neanderthals that people already think we are.
Natural state of South Dakota politics.
Radke hasn’t actually read the Constitution; private property rights are not “God-given,” and the only things the US Constitution promises are due process and just compensation.
The insaner amongst us all will provide entertainment for real long time. They entertain us real long time. Until it gets to the insanest stage, then the entertainment will become aversive, repulsive and toxic disgust. grudznick knows when this will happen, and will remind you if you don’t realize it yourownselfs. Like my good friend Bill used to say…
Paid outrage is my favorite kind of outrage. Amanda will gladly go to bat for anything if the price is right!
Of course, she doesn’t like the CO2 pipeline. Higher corn prices at ethanol plants also mean higher feed prices for her cattle…wake up, South Dakota; she is as anti-farmer as it gets!
She stands to make money from every angle of the pipeline’s failure. Keep cashing those checks and faking that outrage, Amanda baby; you’re as pitiful as pathetic as it gets!
100% the reason she’s fighting the pipeline…not to mention the tshirts & books shes selling.
Boy, this subject never gets any better. All y’all are out to lunch. To Sen. Mehlhaff, this criticism rings hollow considering we just finished with RL21/SB201 which attempted to set up a brand new administrative scheme within the PUC and remove localities from the zoning process… you know, changing the rules in the middle of the game. To Ms. Radke, obscene? Really? In the era of born-alive-infant-protection debates, sex change operations for minors and drag queen story hour, an intense debate over property rights in obscene?
Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
HUMAN. SACRIFICE.
I heard her on a podcast. I thought the ghost of Margaret Hamilton was talking.
There would be no Chris Karr without Jim Mehlhaff. Conservatives need to remember that their coalition is a slim majority.
They control all of the leadership positions in the senate, all committee assignments and where the bills go because they were smart enough to expand a coalition to govern.
There will be many different opinions among a caucus but the most important vote was to put Karr in his leadership role.
Mehlhaff is a good man and entitled to his own views.
Without Mehlhaff Lems’ bill wouldn’t even make it out of a committee because the committee would have been stacked with people who don’t like the bill.
This is 100% true. The bill will have a chance on the senate floor because of how the committee is constructed.
The burn the house down brigade needs to focus on the floor. They knew where Mehlhaff was at before they put him in as Leader.
The fact that Radke just figured his position out is shocking.
It’s about time people start telling the Truth! Vote NO on HB1052