Taffy Howard for Congress 2022 1q FEC: 84k raised, 44k spent, 154k cash on hand. Looking kind of over.

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As I’ve noted several times, Taffy Howard missed almost 15% of all floor votes during the legislative session during the first quarter of the year. So where was she?

We still have no idea, because by the looks of her FEC report, she certainly wasn’t fundraising.

Taffy Howard 2022 1q FEC by Pat Powers on Scribd

With the primary election less than 60 days away, this was the financial quarter that State Representative Taffy Howard needed to put up some big numbers if she wanted to be taken seriously in her challenge against incumbent Congressman Dusty Johnson.

And she managed to maintain her status in the cheap seats, throwing peanuts at the main attraction hoping to gain his attention. To no avail.

With a burn rate of 52%, Taffy raised $83,954.44 but spent $44,178.75, leaving her with cash on hand of $153,714.97.

Which might give her a mailing, a week or so of commercials on the evening news, and to keep her consultants employed. But little else.

I did see in the report that Carl Perry gave her $100..

..and Stace Nelson donated a trailer worth $1400 for hauling signs, but those pickings are looking kind of slim, especially when she’s running her campaign into the homestretch like a car on half-inflated tires.

She might get down the road a bit, but you know things are definitely going to fail.

15 thoughts on “Taffy Howard for Congress 2022 1q FEC: 84k raised, 44k spent, 154k cash on hand. Looking kind of over.”

    1. I’m no expert, and I’m bad at math, but I see 17% of cash on hand tied up for the general. $26,300, that’s a huge number. Taffy better save up cause the refund process is expensive

  4. Carl Perry should be worried about his own primary and not endorsing Taffy Howard. A primary he probably isnt going to win!

  5. Do not underestimate Hot Carl’s ability to read the electorate. The man has his finger on the pulse of SD. This contribution has value for beyond the dollars given for Taffy.

  6. If I’m understanding the rank-and-file South Dakotan ethos, is there nothing more desirable than proving the differentiation between value and currency?

    Production has value.

    Productive land has value.

    Transportation and relationships and human networks have value.

    Currency as magic paper has no intrinsic value whether in paper or digital form, but silver quarters have pretty good value if you can stack enough of them.

    I think I have a genetic memory of this from my grandparents especially on my Mom’s side, but also I learned this by watching the way my grandparents conducted themselves. Nothing flashy, they mostly paid cash for things, and there was at least one occasion when my Grandpa paid off a mortgage with cash in less than a year through trading of horses and such.

    Does South Dakota still exhibit this character, or does our propensity for out of sate deposits invite the cuffing-and-stuffing of this notion?

    Well don’t that hitch a cow to a plow …

    https://youtu.be/xywWO28NqoI

      1. Curious what the 14% of the votes were. Were they mostly mundane votes like updating existing laws with a word change, bills that have no opposition, or bills making some procedural fixes? Thats what the majority of votes taken in the legislature are about. I am not demeaning the legislature here, it’s just the way it is. Or, were there ‘meaty’ issues that she missed a lot of? Any idea what those major issues were? That would help a lot.

          1. Thanks for the list. I went through the first 15 and quit, over 25% of your list. Eight votes she missed (along with the same other 6 legislators) were on 02-04, 3 were on 02-23 and 1 on 02-24. BUT, she did vote on 3 of the bills you had listed, 1044, 1196 and 1215. Whoever helped you compile the list needs to pay closer attention

            Most votes she missed were mundane, non-controversial, like 64-0 or 61-3, etc. Two were close like 37 to 30 or 31-36. Two or 3 had debate but were not close like 52-14 or19-45.

            No question, she missed a couple of hard bills, but no need to embellish the numbers, your blog is too good for that.

  7. Personally, I like Taffy. I also appreciate her commitment to her beliefs. That said, I dislike negative campaigning and she has spent most of her efforts denigrating Dusty Johnson rather than highlighting her accomplishments or ideals. I told her that I adhere to Reagan’s 80/20 policy and although I don’t always agree with Dusty, he does fall within that 80% mark. Unfortunately with her campaign to denigrate Dusty, she does not.

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