This last week, 11 legislators voted against the General Appropriations bill. There were some of the usual doltish morons who vote no, such as Phil Jensen, Aaron Aylward, Tina Mulally and Tony Randolph. But they were joined by a disturbing number of new legislators – Baxter, Garcia, Hunt, Ismay, Jordan, Manhart and Reder all voted against the appropriations for the operation of State Government. So did “California” Carley in the State Senate.
In fact, I notice that Representative “wedding DJ who lives in his mom’s basement” Dylan Jordan weighed in and explained why he voted against everything state government spends money on:
Obviously mom is buying his eggs, because he seems to have a disconnect from reality if the primary reason he voted against the budget was because things cost more than they did five years ago. Of course the budget is larger – Everything is more expensive than five years ago!
But getting into it, what exactly did these legislators actually vote NO on? Here’s a tremendously small and fractional sampling of the things they voted against:
- They voted against our military & veterans – Ellsworth Air Force Base, funding the South Dakota National Guard, the Veteran’s hospital, and County Veteran Service officers
- They voted against supporting South Dakota housing.
- They voted against workforce education, including resources for (again) veterans, new and expecting moms, and disabled people who want to work
- They voted against healthcare facilities, repairing state buildings, paying for claims against the state, or covering employees through the state insurance pool
- They voted against having their own state e-mail account. Or their own laptops. Or their own iPads.
- The voted against libraries, public broadcasting, and having a state radio network that emergency and law enforcement can communicate on.
- They voted against auditing state government.
- They voted against collecting and distributing sales tax to cities.
- They voted against having video lottery, or managing gaming in Deadwood.
- They voted against resource conservation & forestry.
- They voted against the Animal Industry Board, the Dairy Association, the Wheat Commission, the Oilseeds council, the Board of Veterinary examiners, the Corn Utilization Council, and the South Dakota State Fair in Huron.
- They voted against tourism, the arts, wildlife development, all the state parks, and snowmobile trails.
- They voted against every penny that went from the state to tribal relations.
- They voted against mothers and babies in need of public assistance. They voted against anyone in behavioral health settings, those with addictions, they cast a NO vote to supporting the disabled and more.
- They voted against licensing any and all professions.
- They voted against all vo-tech schools and universities, as well as job service offices and services.
- They voted against schools, teachers and students. And libraries.
- These legislators voted against processing rape kits for crime victims, funding 911 calls, putting cops on the street, paying judges to keep order, and the opposed keeping bad guys in jail.
- They voted against regulating utilities.
- They voted against people to keep an eye on how the state spends money.
- They voted against paying state employees.. and well anything for government.
Literally, Rep’s Jensen, Aylward, Mulally, Randolph, Baxter, Garcia, Hunt, Ismay, Jordan, Manhart and Reder, and Senator John “By God I’m from California” Carley voted against every single thing that state government touches. They can try to claim that it’s some sort of goofy protest vote. But it’s no different than the fools who drive to a protest and then proceed to block traffic. They’re accomplishing nothing, except possibly adding to people’s annoyance factor.
These guys allegedly ran for office to make the state better.. and then they vote against literally every person in South Dakota and every thing that state government touches.
Just don’t forget that next time we have an election.
In voting against the G bill, they also voted against the appropriators. The naysayers are an embarrassing crew. They need to go home and stay there.
Led by the FreeDumb Caucus including Representatives, volunteer crash test dummy & Sun Tzu – The Art of War.
All the usual suspects.
What?
Did the goofballs kick my pal Al (Novstrup)
out of their little club?
Maybe he did in fact, finally get a Decent haircut
and can now see the light.
But, I doubt it.
Throw the bums out. Is there a recall process in S.D. ?
Unfortunately, NO: “In South Dakota, the right of recall extends to “the mayor, any commissioner, any alderman, or any member of the board of trustees” in municipal jurisdictions. It does not extend to members of the South Dakota State Legislature, representatives from South Dakota to the U.S. Congress or to statewide constitutional officers such as the Governor of South Dakota.”
https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_recall_in_South_Dakota
Darn. Thanks for the info.
Aren’t these the Constitutionalists? But they voted against the SD Constitution by not voting for a balanced budget.
What’s with Baxter , full nutcase.
Baxter: Taffy Howard recruit …
I’m sure Reder vote NO because Manhart told him to.. haven’t heard a word from him since the day after the election when he tried to resign.
Hunt is right up there with Soye, nutjobs.
I didn’t think anyone would be on the same level as Soye. Well, maybe Lems.
Glad to hear somebody say it.
You should see these two in committee. It’s like the girls in junior high who passed notes and constantly were signaling each other different messages while the teacher taught. Smirking at older legislatures when they make a mistake or hear something wrong. The level of insulting behavior I have seen from the Trump/Doeden fringe is alarming.
Rice Representing Rapid is another nut.
Yes, Rice is a “nut”, but she did not join the group in voting ‘No’ on the G-Bill. She is also not from Rapid (technically Black Hawk: Dist 29). Another Caif transplant, along with her equally nutty husband, a dentist in RC.
Mutant meaningless ants. If they had to really lead they would piss their pants. Every one. Except Mulally, only because of her colostomy bag.
Hopefully one and done.
Well Pat, you’re rich. If you like some of these things, why don’t you pay for them?
Aside from being a troll, have you been huffing paint or something? Because you’re most certainly high.
Do you think that Citizens for Liberty will score differently this year? Last year they knocked any legislators who voted for the G bill. Also, the “true conservatives” spend money on the ambulance service this year. Not very conservative if you ask me. What do you think Mueller?
Citizens for Liberty stand behind anyone who goes to Pierre and consistently votes no. Why even send people who always vote that way???
Pretty sure the only thing people remember when voting in this state is “Democrats bad,” so these nut jobs get a cakewalk in to screw things up.
The things that they testified in favor about, such as the Veterans’ bills, they turned around and voted against.