Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls continues to bring us data into the state of the State Dem party – insight that you don’t hear from other state blogs residing on the other side of the aisle.
What we’re hearing is something that dem party bosses are not eager to discuss, and forgot to mention to the Argus for today’s article – that they’re on life support and half of their monthly expenses have to be covered by the national party:
Nick Nemic, the Hyde County Chair, was there to cast his one vote for his County’s 236 registered democrats. Tom Katus, a Pennington County Party officer, was there to cast his one vote for the 16,608 registered democrats he represents. I was there as a Legislative District co-chair to cast my one vote for the 5427 registered democrats in District 9. Why does the guy representing 236 democrats get the same vote as one representing 16,608 democrats, or one representing 5427 democrats you might ask? The answer is that it is the way the SDDP rolls.
And..
Based on the success the SDDP and its candidates have enjoyed in recent elections, I leave it to you to judge whether or not the rural dominance of the SDDP is an effective political structure. It could be argued that the current $7500.00 monthly subsidy it receives from the National Democratic Party, which meets half of the SDDP’s monthly expenses, keeps the current leadership from needing to broaden its support. Meanwhile, Democratic registration in South Dakota fell to a new 43 year low of 168,000 last week.
In other news coming out of the meeting, Ann Tornberg promised the SDDP would have a candidate to challenge John Thune for the US Senate seat next fall but she refused to say whom. We will just have to have patience.
They get $7500 a month to keep the lights on? I think that’s something we knew from looking at their FEC reports, but this is a rare admission that they’re on life support.
And better yet, “Ann Tornberg promised the SDDP would have a candidate to challenge John Thune for the US Senate seat next fall but she refused to say whom…”.
I’m getting the distinct impression that even Democrats have stopped buying Ann’s company line of B.S., and are consigning themselves to being skeptics, there’s more than a chance they may NOT manage to dig up a warm body for US Senate, and the Dem state party organization may be in free fall at this point.