Hot off the press, and I hadn’t heard about it until now. But apparently State Representative Brandei Schaefbauer was on Facebook praising former TV newsreader Shad Olson for his testimony for her bill HCR 6009:
(You can’t see it, but my jaw dropped when I read this, iIf you missed my earlier post on Shad today). I have to find this audio, because for the life of me, I can’t imagine in what way, shape or form Shad Olson would be an expert on anything. Was he testifying as an expert on how to read words off a teleprompter? Was he testifying as an expert on the conditions inside the Meade County Jail and what colors clash with jailhouse painted blue cinderblocks? Or might he have been an expert on how to have women bail him out of jail?
Or, maybe Brandei was seeking someone to testify on how to get charges reduced from a felony Domestic Abuse Aggravated Assault/Strangulation down to Class 1 misdemeanor Domestic Abuse Simple Assault/Recklessly Causes Bodily Injury?
Seriously, I would guess that Brandei hasn’t read the Argus Leader story on Shad if she’s praising him on facebook.
The victim expressed she felt lucky she was thrown on a carpeted floor, because the alleged assault did not leave her with broken bones.
“[The victim] said she was having a hard time breathing and its [sic] hard to talk as she touched the side of her stomach,” the report reads. “[The victim] said she was still aching and described the assault as an animal killing an animal and that Shad isn’t human.”
The victim then told the officer she “thought she was going to die,” but she was able to escape the house. The officer asked if Olson said anything during the alleged assault, but his girlfriend said he only repeated the “crazy [expletive] insult.”
and..
From there, the victim said Olson chased after her as she ran away from her home. They had been living together from some time, but she told the officer “she pays for everything in the home while Olson worries about the country,” the documents read.
The officer asked the victim if Olson had assaulted her before, with her replying “yes.”
The victim said Olson, who runs his own far-right, eponymic podcast, is “stressed over politics,” which influences his drinking. She then told the officer Olson blames his political frustrations on her.
As Olson’s chase continued, the victim said her boyfriend began to tell her “not to ruin his reputation and continued to follow her,” the reports state.
Brandei should really read this story here.
I wasn’t thinking anything this legislative session would surprise me anymore. But, here someone goes again and manages to come up with something crazier than I could imagine.
Shad Olson is an expert in everything. Once again this representative from Aberdeen will go down another politically fringe rabbit hole wasting valuable legislative time while the citizens of Brown County have needs being unmet.
grudznick does not know about Ms. Brandei, who really does have a neat-o name, but this Mr. Olson fellow looks a wee bit like he might have microcephaly. Full disclosure, grudznick is not a practicing doctor.
I’m sure that she checked with the resident rocket scientist, Al Novstrup before she sent out all of the glowing praise……
No doubt my pal Al would wholeheartedly approve of this.
I am still undecided who is Bat Sh*t crazier, ….
Brandei Schaefbauer , Phil Jensen or Al Novstrup.
Oh……I almost forgot Travis Ismay.
The scary part is that these dolts are serious.
The rest of us think that they are clowns.
South Dakota….Reap what you sow.
To the uninitiated, the above is generally classified as “gaslighting”.
Surprised your laundered USAID checks haven’t bounced yet.
Maybe they’re….
Well, I’ll let you finish that thought.
Either way I’m embarrassed for all of us, South Dakota that is.
Brandei is weird. I listened to her proponent testimony about how her insurance company expects her to share the cost of her MRIs and how that isn’t fair. Her insurance company covers her MRIs but she has copays, and she thinks they should pay 100% of the cost, and not even count her annual deductible.
She had a lot of irrelevant emotional testimony about how she’d had breast cancer, and Obamacare ruined everything. There were times she appeared to be confusing diagnostic and screening imaging, was using the terms interchangeably, not seeming to understand they are two different things or why that matters.
Weird. Just weird.
The whole legislative session is weird..
Curious how many have listened to the testimony? All of this is fantasy world conspiracies. These gullible legislators will rally their most gullible constituents and end up accomplishing nothing and wasting precious legislative time, taxpayer dollars and opportunities.
Yep. I caught the part about how the idiot claimed there’s been a conspiracy against him since 2020 or something like that. And I instantly tuned his rant out.