For someone who wanted to be the Republican nominee for Congress last year, former State Representative Taffy Howard sure hates the Republican Party.
After her loss to Dusty Johnson, during the last Republican Convention, when she wasn’t trying to kill the resolution thanking the leadership of the Republican Party, Howard was trying to gin up a demand that the South Dakota Republican Party return convention and meal fees, and to vote delegates money to themselves out of the party treasury.
Since then, she has done even less for South Dakota Republicans, spending much of her time attacking the GOP, and it’s candidates.
But in a new low, Taffy is trying to decide whether she’s going to boycott the SDGOP’s showcase event with former President Donald Trump, because it might in some way, shape or form benefit the South Dakota Republican Party which has invested time and money to put the event together.
Literally, what might be the biggest event that the Republican Party has put on in South Dakota in modern history has Taffy declaring that “I don’t want to help in any way,” because she has that much loathing for the Republicans who have been elected, and the Republican voters who have put them in office:
..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.
Understand that this is the same Taffy Howard who was happy to drown herself in Trump kool-aid, and was happy to show up and participate at the Pillow Guy election denier event in Sioux Falls, and went so far in her campaign to declare the 2020 election as stolen and “Trump should still be President.“
Yet, she hates the GOP so much so that when the party is able to bring the former President in for an event, her reaction is that he’s being used, and she declares “I don’t want to help in any way.” You really have to ask herself that if she hates the Republican Party that much, and rejects the people who South Dakota Republicans voters have chosen to put in office to that extent, and goes as far as she does, why is she still registered as a Republican?
Seriously. Someone should point out to Taffy that she should check her overinflated sense of self at the door, and that it’s not about her.
While I might be looking at my options in the next presidential race, I will be the first one to point out that this is the biggest single event the South Dakota Republican Party has been able to put together featuring the party’s front running presidential hopeful/former President in my 35 years of being involved. It’s a huge win for the SDGOP, and ultimately a high profile boost for all Republican candidates in the state, current, and those to come in the next election. A rising tide raises all ships.
If a person thinks Republicans should be elected over Democrats, Real Republicans should want the party to be successful. We need it to be successful. And it has been for decades, with Republican elected officials who have the support of the majority of Republicans and the majority of South Dakotans.
Either Taffy supports the Republican party or she doesn’t. And if she doesn’t, she should drop the act and get out of the way.
It’s all about her, not the party or anyone else.
Ms. Taffy is very pretty, and she is insaner than most. And most everyone knew that a long time ago.
However Mr. Trump might still like to meet her if she chooses to show up. Ms. Hubbel is probably showing up.
beauty is ephemeral, outer beauty is never as good as inner beauty.
Counterpoint: Audrey Hepburn. And yes, I know of her charity work.
She hasn’t supported the Republican Party at all, she uses it. In 2020 she successfully argued that the SDGOP should not pass a resolution honoring our history as the party of the abolitionist movement and the Emancipation Act. Apparently she doesn’t think much of Old Abe.
In 2022 she attempted to bankrupt the party and implied we shouldn’t pay the venue and catering bills. She was a royal pain in the platform committee meetings, then successfully argued against a resolution thanking the chairman for his leadership. She argued against supporting our own slate of candidates, but fortunately a slim majority of the delegates thought that idea was just a bit too far. It was incredibly awful that the vote was so close they had to count heads, I wished every one who voted against supporting our own candidates had been stripped of their credentials and escorted out. If they were not going to support Republican candidates they had no business being there.
Then the next day she raised an objection because the Governor gave the nominating speech for Larry Rhoden. The room was hot and crowded; we were getting hungry, and she wanted to complain about who was giving a nominating speech. Really?
She dedicated those three days in 2022 to being as obnoxious as possible. She uses the Republican Party because we give her a soapbox to stand on. It’s time to give her the boot. She contributes nothing, and wastes everybody’s time.
You should really put your name to this type of criticism – it would show some integrity.
I don’t want to put my name on it because I don’t want to be the subject. It isn’t about me. What she has done at the last two state conventions was witnessed by a lot of people.
in 2020 Ed Randazzo wrote the resolution of support for the celebration of the Emancipation Act. She argued against it, and somehow got the votes to reject it.
If you participated in the 2020 state convention you saw her do it. If you were in Sioux Falls you saw Dan Lederman’s head explode. (That was epic; the profanity was spectacular)
If you were present at the rules committee meeting in 2022 you saw her try to get the votes to bankrupt the party and stiff the venue for the cost of the convention. She wanted all the attendees to get their money back. She said the candidates should pay for the convention. Use Other People’s Money.
If you were present at the platform committee meeting you saw her waste everybody’s time with her incessant complaints.
If you were present at the general floor votes on resolutions you saw her argue, successfully, against thanking the retiring chairman for his service, and then argue (unsuccessfully, thank goodness) against the party’s endorsement of our own slate of candidates.
And if you were present during the nominations of candidates for constitutional offices, you saw her raise a point of order about who is allowed to give a nominating speech.
I can understand how someone who did not actually witness this crap would have trouble believing it. Talk to people who were there.
you do you.
you can do you, too. and if you want to know what’s going on, you need to show up.
Many of us have witnessed Howard’s inappropriate behavior over the years, and we’re sick of her.
A radical group took over the Republican Women’s group in Spearfish. They are not Republicans and they are destroying the reputation of the party. Their associates in Belle Fourche sent the commissions an email about white hoods, lynching and the KKK. Their frequents guests at meetings consist of the Citizens for Liberty people from Rapid City. The women’s group should remove Republican from their name. Perhaps Ms Howard or Ms FreyMueller could assist them.
Point of clarification: there are two Republican Women’s groups in Spearfish. You’re referring to the one that put a post on Facebook literally saying they hope to some day become the Citizens for Liberty of Lawrence County.
The other has GOP Vice Chair Mary Fitzgerald as a member and is part of the Federation of Republican Women. They’re VERY different groups!
i’m glad she’s interested in political power and not nuclear power. she and a committee of like minded lab techs could have overthrown oppenheimer at los alamos, sent the other nuclear elites (scientists) packing, and divvy-d up the u235 amongst themselves.
re: trump “being used” by gop elites – LOL he uses his hold over freedom-caucus republicans like a baseball bat against primary candidates wherever he can; he keeps party leadership in a perpetual chokehold like a human shield against court appearances for his many political and business missteps and alleged abuses; he squandered his white house time by constantly doing the fun campaign rally events over and over, instead of marshall the gop for real political battle; he uses the party every day, more than they could “use” him in return. howard’s complaint is the classic outsider complaint, where a big party just says no to where you want to lead them. i get it. she’s mad.
When you have been rejected by the whole state of SD it only makes sense that you have to find ways to try and stay relevant.
Taffy Howard Rejecting Trump Event …… South Dakotans Overwhelmingly Rejecting Taffy Howard
The funny thing is her thinking she was invited, let alone that anyone would care to ask her to “help”. There’s only ONE person she knows how to help, and they’re apparently not going. Way to do NOTHING, Taffy! If nothing else, she is at least consistent in that aspect.
While I would prefer not to vote for someone like Dusty I also can’t bring myself to vote for Taffy. I just have to bang my head.
Jon Hansen has entered this wierd stage also.
Odenbach
Randolph
Mullahy
Aywald
Pischke
May
Lems
The Irrelevant Seven. The number does vary.
Good for Ms. Howard for not supporting a malignant narcissist!
“Since then, she has done even less for South Dakota Republicans, spending much of her time attacking the GOP, and *it’s candidates.”
*its not it’s.
Anonymous at 10:44, the only malignant narcissist she supports is herself.
She and Trump are so much alike; they are both sore losers. Narcissists HATE being rejected. If Trump does not get the Republican Party nomination he will turn on them, too. Probably run as an independent.
If the Monmouth polls are to be believed, Trump is trouncing the field. The party has been lost to lunatics.
If she gets any crazier she might become a republican president…
she should go. it won’t be a big fun shindig without her.