Going off my post where noting there’s talk that Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson might not be the hard right’s candidate to challenge incumbent Secretary of State Monae Johnson (who isn’t drinking their tainted kool-aid), I mentioned their other possible options to challenge the SOS might be election conspiracist Rick “my life is at risk” Weible or fellow election conspiracist Jessica Pollema of SD Canvassing.
Coincidentally, these two just happened to pop up on the Pillow Guy TV podcast this week, like harbingers of electoral doom for South Dakota.
Which really reinforces the fact that as a state, we might need to consider putting statewide candidates for political parties on the primary ballot, instead of being one of the last three states to choose them at convention.
Rational Republicans have lost control of the party conventions. The crazies are in charge of the nuthouse. It’s impossible to guess who they will pick for Sect of State, AG, auditor, treasurer, etc. Qualified candidates need not apply.
But this is what creates lucrative careers for some fellows and a few ladies.
grudznick jests with you, Mr. Anonymous. grudznick jests. The conventions are havens of the insanest characters around. And the people that don’t vote out legislators who enable them or vote to keep them should all get bonked in the head.
At least thrice.
When Monae Johnson is the “sane” candidate, you know you’ve got problems.
for the life of me, I can’t believe the Democrats came out against the idea of moving some of these offices to a primary. It tells me two things — first, that they struggle to find candidates and having to find someone run in a primary would be even tougher than begging someone to run for the office at convention, and second, they really don’t care who ends up getting elected.
Someone who runs ballot initiatives needs to put this on the ballot. It certainly won’t be 100% effective, but my gosh we need to stop letting a few hundred people select our candidates in what amounts to a student council election.
This is just a bad dream, right? Right?
It is a guarantee that it will be an absolute disastrous nightmare if either of them become SOS. While they fully believe they are legal scholars, they grossly misinterpret the law or simply ignore statutes that don’t fit their agenda. Our state will end up in countless lawsuits from every civil rights group out there and whatever administration is in the White House. The only people trying to undermine our elections is these two and the tinfoil hat club that follows them.