As alleged a few days ago, Taffy Howard filed paperwork to run for District 34 State Senate today.
Oddly, in the press release that Taffy’s ghostwriter sent out, her big statement talks about two things that she really should avoid bringing up this election:
“I am dedicated to serving District 34 and South Dakota. I will use my experience and relationships I’ve built in Pierre to build a brighter, safer, and stronger South Dakota together!” Howard declares, signaling her readiness to contribute to the state’s future.
Holy buckets?!? Did her flaks really try to invoke her “experience” and “relationships?” WOW! Are they kidding?
Her experience? As in passing 0 – ZERO – bills out of 17 in her last three years at bat? Or as in skipping 14% of floor votes in her last legislative session? How about when she skipped the vote on impeachment? In fact, I think Dusty Johnson did a commercial on her “experience” in the last election:
And let’s not forget this prior ding on her experience, as well as any claims of being conservative..
And that’s literally just the tip of the iceberg regarding her utter lack of competence as a legislator.
What about Howard’s claims invoking the relationships she’s built in Pierre?
I know there was one event in the last two years where, if she didn’t note it publicly, I believe the Governor referred to legislator Taffy at the time as useless. That came after Taffy sued Governor Kristi Noem over providing broadband service to rural communities.
Oh! Don’t forget! Remember back a couple of months ago when Taffy had an opportunity to help the Republican Party?
..while I have a deep admiration for what Trump has been able to accomplish, I do believe he is being used by the establishment elites in our state to give themselves some standing with their conservative constituents, which I don’t want to help in any way.
Read Taffy Howard’s screed here.
Yeah.. Lots of relationship building there.
So, as for Taffy’s “experience and relationships?” She might want to downplay those, lest people get wind of the real Taffy experience.
Saddle up, as Taffy Howard tries for a comeback. Because it sounds as if she’s riding a lot of bull on her way back to Pierre.
Taffy has an excessive need to be the center of attention and will do anything to achieve it. Consequently she enjoys wasting everybody’s time, raising objections to everything she can think of. As long as people are paying attention to her, she’s happy.
So the best course of action here is to ignore her, just pretend she doesn’t exist.
Sounds just like the orange one..
She reminds me of Stace. She’s wonderful in her own mind.
at the 2020 state convention she complained about, and successfully headed up the opposition to the resolution celebrating the GOP’s history as the party which abolished slavery. Apparently “true conservatives” like slavery.
At the 2022 state convention she went to the rules committee meeting and tried to empty the party’s treasury, and wanted people to be allowed to decide about running for constitutional offices after spending the evening before the vote in the convention center bar. Fortunately both those proposals failed. Then she went to the platform committee where she complained about absolutely EVERYTHING, took up way too much time, just to draw attention to herself. When the platform committee adjourned to catch the boat ride around Lake Kampeska, some of the people there felt there was still more to talk about, but Taffy had taken up all the time allowed.
Then she objected to the resolutions congratulating the winners of the statewide races for winning their primaries, proving she is the biggest RINO of them all, and successfully headed the opposition to the resolution of gratitude to the outgoing chairman for having put up with her bullshit for years.
I think she really wants to be the Queen of England, but that job is taken. Perhaps we could give her a rhinestone tiara and let her ride around the capitol in a horse-drawn carriage.
OMG, District 34 now has the unenviable distinction of having a divisive, ineffective, childish attention seeker within their borders seeking to be their sole representative in the SD Senate. A crusader for stopping folks from relocating to freedom loving SD, limiting access to recreational activities for SD visitors and distrust of others that have more recently relocated here, she is exactly what District 34 and all of West River doesn’t need in Pierre.
“A crusader for stopping folks from relocating to freedom loving SD, limiting access to recreational activities for SD visitors and distrust of others that have more recently relocated here.”
Yeehah! She has my vote. We don’t need any more maggats here.