This is hot off the press.
2 South Dakota Legislative Democrats, Representative Pori Pourier and Senator Red Dawn Foster are said to have broken away and are NOT meeting with their respective Democrat House and Senate Caucuses over what I’m told is a disagreement with House Minority Leader Erin Healy over something or another.
And we might just take that to be rumor, innuendo and just plain chatter.. except for what was issued today – the House and Senate Legislative Seating charts:
Pourier is most certainly NOT seated with the rest of her caucus, as she’s been shifted to the center of the room. And in the Senate..
..Despite there only being three Democrats, Red Dawn Foster was placed next to Tom Pischke, which might be argued could be an act of punishment, but it might just mean no one else wanted to sit there, and it’s an open space given JFM is long gone from the Senate.
But in ether case, something is going on among Democrats that hasn’t hit the public airwaves yet for these legislators to be separated from the pack.
Mehlhaff is going to need a big desk lamp.
He’s surrounded by Perry, Voita and Taffy. They are all dim bulbs.
Are those 5 seats even in the same building?
Are the dems isolated switching parties?
The House chart shows how vindictive Jon Hansen is.
Yes, so did his committee assignments. He didn’t have the same respect Bartels, Stevens, Mortenson, and Rehfeldt had for the ENTIRE group of legislators. He’s all in… for himself.
How many caucuses are there for this session? 3?
There are the Democrats SDDP
There are the Republicans SDGOP
South Dakota House Majority Leader Will Mortenson, R-Fort Pierre, condemned the event and called those hosting it non-Republicans.
“I spoke out against Nazis when they came to the Capitol this summer,” Mortenson said in a statement, referencing a June march in Pierre by a neo-Nazi group, “and don’t like them any better when they are in Sioux Falls. When you’re throwing a rally featuring a self-described Nazi, you’re not a Republican. You belong to a different party. There’s no room for Nazi sympathy in our party or in our state.”
Did there end up being a Nazi caucus? SDNAZI?