Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck issued a statement this morning with regards to the process that the State Senate will be following with regards to the guidelines the Senate is following for the impeachment process, and how they intend to do everything in the light of day:
I try and answer all media requests within the bounds that they are appropriate and that I have the time. Hopefully this will assist your readers.
The good news is that South Dakota has no history of impeachment, like Arizona or Illinois, so we don’t have the established rules that they do. The bad news is, that we don’t have established rules like they do. Last year when this first arose, I asked Senator Wheeler to study other states’ rules and work on a draft. He enlisted retired judges, current Senators, Rusch and Johns to assist him. This week we took that draft and created a version that we think will work to provide South Dakota with a fair and expedient process. The LRC staff is currently reviewing that work product. When it is in final draft form I will distribute to the entire senate, and make it available to the public. The proposed rules will be reviewed by the Legislative Procedures Committee on April 26th and the full senate will act on that committee’s work the same day.
I have added both the majority and minority leaders to this email. It is our intent to have this process very transparent. I envision documents posted on line for senators and the public to review in advance. When the rules are “done” (its only a draft until whatever form is adopted by the senate), they will explain it all.
Lee
What do you think?
Is this impeachment proceeding Mr. Schoenbeck’s cure for “[cancer]”?
Sheesh, do you wake up every morning this nasty?
I trust the senator far more the the clown car that is House leadership.
They got so far out there that they lost their caucus.
Spencer Gosch has far more integrity than Lee Schoenbeck.
If that were the case Spencer would bother to conduct himself like a professional. His emails to constituents read at a lower level of formality than you’d see in an internet chat room filled with middle schoolers.
If we’re going to evaluate integrity based on formal writing, Gosch and Schoenbeck are both in trouble.
Indeed, Mr. Anonymous. The Jr. Varsity Squad of the House leadership has had to have their bedsheets changed over and over again, and the adults in the legislatures are tired of it.
Why the caucuses even let those clowns continue is beyond the pale, the the voters are apt to administer some spankings to those who have been insaner than most. So thinks grudznick.
Organized and transparent. Seems like both sides of the Legislature should run things this way.
I have a lot of faith in Schoenbeck’s integrity on something like this. He takes procedure and precedent seriously.
Will there be witnesses? The presidential one did not.
Will both sides be allowed to subpoena witnesses?
Where will they here it on the senate floor?
Will they use the rules of criminal procedure?
Do they think it will only last 2 days?
The collision on the shoulder tore off all of Joe Boever’s clothes and amputated his lower leg. I’d like to watch Craig Price try to explain how that same single collision left his glasses on his face until it reached the windshield.
That’s not that difficult to explain. I’ve seen a lot of weird things on accident scenes and that doesn’t even register as something to bat an eye at. His head and upper torso likely didn’t move in the initial impact while his leg and lower body were being struck. The force pushing his head downward would probably kept his glasses on until the car moved far enough that his face landed in the windshield. His leg was probably already removed before his head even began moving after impact. That is just how fast things can happen. Here is a video of a pedestrian being struck at less than half of the speed of what jason was traveling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtrwYB_91Fg
How could such a collision amputate the pedestrian’s lower leg and spray all of the blood from that amputation onto the bottom right side of the car, and none of it onto the top of the car?
And if the amputation happened subsequent to that initial collision, what physical evidence would have been left by the initial collision?
You have to understand that this all happens in a fraction of a second. It could happen between two heart beats where the arteries are not pressurized. You could chop off a leg and have a drop of blood in that instant, or you can get an arterial spray.
If the amputation happened afterward, there would still be plenty of evidence at the initial impact point. You are going to have transfers from the pedestrian and vehicle. Paint or vehicle parts embedded in the victim. Flesh and clothing stuck to the vehicle. Many times in incidents like this, there will be a lot of downward force so you may see transfers from the vehicle to the roadway. It’s not uncommon to see where the frame or other items gouged the pavement on impact. Hitting something that large at that speed will easily bottom out your suspension.
As I said before, if you try to make sense of all the weird things that happen with all these forces of physics present, you might find yourself a bit frustrated. It’s not always east to replicate or understand the outcome.
In the video you’ve posted, the dummy’s head begins to descend almost immediately upon impact, and it appears to descend approximately two feet in what you admit is a fraction of a second. If a pedestrian weren’t already leaning forward before impact, that sudden descent alone could jerk his head out of his glasses.
As the impact pulls the upper body downward, it simultaneously pulls the leg below the impact point upward, so that even if it fractured the lower leg, it would be unlikely to amputate it.
The investigators say Boever’s body rode on the hood after, not before, his lower leg was amputated. If that were true, why would the amputation have left blood on the bottom right side of the car but not on the hood?
In the video you’ve posted, the only obvious transfer from the vehicle to the roadway is via the detached license plate. If the license plate weren’t detached, what physical evidence would indicate the location of the impact in the roadway?
Does this all go away if JR resigns?
No. He’d still have to be tried because conviction would bar him from future office.