Right on time for the New Year, SDGOP Chair wannabe Ezra Hays is back hitting the email accounts of Republican Central Committee members, begging for a shot at the chairmanship.
Or did he?
Aside from a fairly laughable budget, which I will get into later, the language in this email instantly came off to me as a bit… inauthentic. Which had me wondering if Ezra actually wrote this?
And according to plagiarism tools, No. According to on-line tools, it appears there is a high likelihood that this message was actually written by our incoming AI overlords:
GPT checker one says 100% AI generated..
And here’s another GPT Checker tool telling us that. There is a 100% probability that the robots are doing all the talking.
(Not exactly an illustration of authenticity in trying to connect with the state’s 320,000 Republicans.)
Of course, there were other problems with the email. Such as the “budget” he was proposing, which wasn’t really a budget, because while it was big on spending, there are no details on how he intends to raise all this money he wants to spend.
And a huge red flag.. why is the political/fundraising director budgeted for $10,000 more than the person who would allegedly be their boss? The party has not paid anybody for that job in a decade or more.
Let me give you a little insight on that, as was noted to me by one recipient this morning:
Finance Director is the only position that the bylaws empower the chair to appoint without approval from anyone…. Not exec board, not Central Committee. Perhaps that’s why Ezra is proposing a higher salary for the Finance Director than for the Executive Director.
Ahhh… the person noting that to me speculated that we could see Ezra hire anyone he wants for this job which in the past has not had a salary attached to it. He could hire someone off the street with no experience in fundraising. Or Ezra could hire his buddy Dave Roetman who had the role when it was unpaid. Either way, it is a new salaried position with no board oversight
The race for the SDGOP’s 2025 leadership is not giving me warm fuzzies at this point. But, there is still plenty of time for a qualified aspirant to jump in with leadership and a real plan, as opposed to robots & made up numbers.
Anytime, now..
It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion as it’s happening.
I want quantifiable qualifying data – listed prior funds raised, and you better bring receipts.
Unqualified, inadequate, egotistical, powder and control-hungry asshats, who want a shiny nametag with a title to flash like a badge, so they feel less insignificant than they actually are.
But that’s the key description to every character in this far-right band of “patriots”. So, the patients will continue to take the asylum and the adults will return to clean up the mess after they’ve burned it to the ground.
You say this, but I see no evidence it is true. For god’s sake, people in South Dakota still blame democrats for South Dakota politics. We are a literal uniparty in this state and we still blame dems. That’s what you don’t seem to get: as long as they have someone to blame, and they will ALWAYS have someone to blame, they will just keep burning.
Did anyone else notice that budget line reads: “Executive Director or Secretary”? So many questions cone to mind. Here are three to start:
1) Is Ezra aware that the Central Committee is supposed to elected a Secretary when they elect a Chair? Since we elect a Secretary, there’s no need to hire one.
2) Does Ezra think the ED’s job is the same as a Secretary’s job? Maybe he merges them together because he has no idea what an ED actually does.
3) Does Ezra value the ED so little because he’s really just hiring an ED in name only and is expecting his finance director to actually be in control of the inner workings of Party? (That sounds like a Roetman plan, doesn’t it?)
Oh boy.
Why would anyone who is qualified to lead the party want the job? The party is a mess and there is no hope of fixing that anytime soon. Significant fundraising is a fantasy.
Given all that, Ezra might just be the guy for the job. Or maybe Toby?
I don’t think Toby qualifies. You have to vote in at least two primary elections before you can be chairman
lol!!
Toby is the kind of useful idiot you would encourage to lead an opposing party into conspiracy consumed oblivion. That party would secure it’s place as a politically fringe minor party if it survived.
The salaries aren’t very high.
He has a lot of questionable in his budget but he’s saying he will raise $300k. Not too bad. It’s harder to get there than he thinks but at least he’s working on it.
Where does it say he’s going to raise anything? He has a few imaginary lines on what he thinks he’ll spend. Nothing on raising money.
New years resolution be positive.
We are positive. We’re positive the SDGOP will be a mess if Ezra gets elected.
(It’s not just Ezra. The other two running are as bad if not worse.)
“I nominate Pat Powers for GOP chairman.” Is there a second?
(Jeez. Why would you do that to a guy?). The problem with getting someone to do the job now is that the political environment is so toxic that no one wants to even try. I’d rather work with people who are aspirational and inspirational.
Waiting for someone else to enter the race.