Kristi Noem raised $2.2 million and spent $2.6 million on her gubernatorial campaign in the last five months. Over the same period, Billie Sutton raised $1.4 million and spent $1.6 million.
Campaign finance matters little to most voters, other than the higher the numbers, the more their idiot-box transmissions will be interrupted by political ads instead of the regular programming of calls to constant consumption that they somehow find less annoying than calls to participate in democracy.
Let me thus offer just one reason voters should care about yesterday’s stunning campaign finance reports:
Republican Kristi Noem spent $2.6 million dollars, a million more than her opponent, and she essentially has nothing to show for it. In a state where Republicans outnumber Democrats by nearly 98,000, where a Republican ought to be able to basically sit on her front porch and wave at cars and win, Kristi has spent $2.6 million to be in a tie two weeks out and have $85K less cash on hand than Billie, the Democrat who may beat her.
Kristi Noem: lots of spending, little results.
Or, since our viewers at home hate negative campaigning:
Billie Sutton: spends less, does more.
One only needs to remember that the more Republican an area is the less racist.
Good examples of this is the south after the democrats were thrown from power or Chicago as it became more democrat.
In our own state there are parties that try to separate all of us by separating us all into little groups such as Black, Native American, Gay, Bi and all the others. The more and more those racist separate us the more racism you see. We are one people in one land. So, if you want a racist state you need to vote democrat.
Aren’t you the misogynistic deplorable poster who slurs LGBTQ folks constantly here? Notice how the adjective is spelled? Try that for “DemoCRATIC”. Who’d you learn English from? Rush Limbaugh?
Noem is dredging for the Cliven Bundy Militia vote here in SD. Starting to see more of those rejects in west river. Heck, Grudz is doxing posters on this blog.
Sorry leslian, I just gave you a fact. Calling others names because you don’t like facts is your problem, not mine. I’m going to keep fighting against your efforts to bring racism to my home state of South Dakota. You can’t stop me. Maybe you should just post in sites that involve the state you live in and just leave us alone here in our state.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
The most racist parts of America, a fact that OldSeagramssnockered didn’t provide like he claimed. Democrats in the south weren’t kicked out of power, they became racist right wing nut jobs like OldSoapweedSuzie.
Old Sarg, you just don’t make sense. I know you want to rile us up like Trump, but not going to work. Run along now, go play outside, the weather is beautiful.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/interactives/existing-while-black
For all them there non-racist white supremacist boys that comment here.
Moar white racism from the party of OldSevastopolsicko-
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/debbie-stabenow-racist-ad-black-genocide_us_5bce17e7e4b055bc948384bd
All that black genocide crap started with right wing nut jobs accusing Margaret Sanger and W. E. B. Du Bois of engineering ways to kill off all black babies by placing abortion clinics in predominantly black areas back before abortion was legal. Sanger died before abortion became legal.
The evidence for the black genocide was a miquoted paragraph from a letter between Sanger and DuBois, if I remember right.
Ya but how is debate going some of us still working……
Is her money where her mouth is? Did she show up?
Well. Like the RCJ sez, Kristy will help us with abortion and bathrooms, but nothing that matters to real people.
Sutton just came out on his debate, not 10 minutes ago, telling us all he would fight against abortion. Watch KELO!!!!
Billie is Pro-Life. He means it. No matter what Ol PsychWard wants to think, Billie is anti abortion. Solid!!
Porter besides Sutton lying about almost every topic you have no business in this as you do not live here, do not pay taxes here and do not vote here. Your option has no relevance.
Sutton has not changed, he has said he is against abortion, nothing new
I control property in S.D. and lots of taxes are paid (on time) on all the interests I control. I have more money in S.D. than you, you big bozo!!
If OS and Kristie insist on telling stories contrary to what Billie testifies to, they need documentation. Kristi needs to say, “On this day, at this time in the legislature, Mr. Sutton is on record as saying and proposing this or that.” Just calling him a liar to his face about taxes or abortion or marijuana has no credibility. Everything she claims would be written down officially and on the record. She’s had months and a big staff to research these claims, if they were true. Her claims aren’t true and that’s why she debated with no documentation that could be fact checked. #LyinKristie #LyinTrump
Porter doesn’t live here, work here or vote here he needs to just simply butt the hell out of our state.
Russian, Moscow is a long way from South Dakota. Take your missus, widdle Russian and move on. Are you that hard up for work that you would sell your soul on the paytroll?
OS … Your state? bwa-ha-ha
Kristi Noem isn’t very nice, is she?
OS opens by shouting, “Squirrel!” then comes back to tonight to scream that Billie is lying, without any proof.
My thesis stands unchallenged: these campaign finance reports only strengthen the Sutton narrative: Sutton is surging from underdog to feel-good South Dakota candidate, while Noem is showing her stripes as an expensive failure.
Are her very negative ads backfiring? I’m picking up some of that in SD news. If she’s not worried about this campaign, she’s not very smart.
Does the SDGOP have any new voter suppression plans for the reservations? They’ve only got 2 weeks to cheat more people out of their vote.
10.23.18 @9:26 Old( misogynist )Sarge posted on this thread: “leslian, in response to a preceding post. I suggest, in his new “charm offensive”, where he’s all Peace&Love to all if you ” just return to beloved South Dakota”, he is in fact a women hater, specifically here, lesbian women. He (hereafter Old misogynist Sarge) slyly changed the second “E” in leslie to “ian”, evoking the spelling of “lesbian”, without the “B” as if this is a slur. He has previously slurred women and men and what then do in between their legs on this blog.
OMS, your rep here is only derived from what you tell us. Other posters here are real persons we know personally, or know of, and respect their human-ness regardless of past, present or future state lines. Lakota people and others own land ranging over multiple states. Lots of Kristi’s spending comes from out-of-state money. We dislike her for partisan policy and her lack of acumen hurting most South Dakotans, not because of some hate you endeavor to soil Dems with.
What you espouse here is anything but “I just gave you a fact”.
You do what propagandist Rush Limbaugh does 24/7/365 (for decades), white males are “victims” of racism at the hands of minorities and liberals.
Misinformation, mass confusion of the populace, is the result; not as you assert: “I just gave you a fact”.
Lesbian, I don’t hate l sbians at all. The truth is I’ve never met one. Maybe it’s me.
Yes, Russian, you are a l sbian so stop wondering.
It could also just be that on my MacBook the letters “yuio” are intermittent and now I am typing on an iPad while riding in a car. Just passed Sioux Falls heading into the scary land of Minnesota. I’ll get my Mac fixed when I get back so you don’t need to read mysterious thoughts into my my misspellings.. I’ll try again lesbian lesbian. Yep got it down now!