Last fall, the Democratic Attorneys General Association announced its 1881 Initiative, a push to elect women to half of state attorney general posts by 2022. (1881 is the first year that women ran for attorney general, in California and Illinois.) The DAGA is thus understandably exclamatory about Tatewin Means’s bid for attorney general here in South Dakota:
In the words of DAGA Executive Director Sean Rankin, “Tatewin Means may be new to South Dakota politics, but she is not new to the needs of South Dakota, nor is she new to the hard work required to serve as the Attorney General in South Dakota — and that is what makes her a natural fit with our first class of 1881 Initiative candidates” [“First-Ever Indigenous Woman Running for Attorney General in South Dakota!” Democratic Attorneys General Association, retrieved 2018.05.12].
The DAGA happily shares Means’s “powerful” first campaign video, which checks lots of boxes for good South Dakota campaigning: tractors, horseys, flags, the Capitol, and the Badlands, and lots of cool drone footage. Plus, it comes in a Lakota version:
…as well as a translation for us immigrants:
I don’t see the magic word “endorse” on the DAGA website, which lists both of our Democratic candidates for AG, Means and Randy Seiler. But the DAGA clearly would like to see the South Dakota Democratic Party nominate Means as part of the 1881 Initiative.
What a refreshing, uplifting video from South Dakota’s next, and first, lady AG. Break the cycle of white, wingnut corruption in South Dakota’s government and politics.
When Tatewin was in high school in Rapid City she often made the news for her many accomplishments and academic achievements.
She’s always been refreshing and poised, she has a lot of her father’s charisma.
Yes, Roger is right. Tatewin was an academic and athletic star at Central. I remember her since my daughter was a freshman when Means was a senior. She went on to Stanford. She is mega-talented. I wish I was back there so I could vote for her.
My eldest Grandgirlie graduated as a junior from Central a couple years ago. She is safely ensconced in iowa city close to her Dad.
Around the same time that Rapid City gave us the articulate and talented Tatewin, they also gave us Trumptard Tomi Lohren. Sort of like going from President Obama to Trump.
Last I saw of Miss Lahren she was doing a selfie with a pistol shoved down the waistband of her yoga pants. My comment at that time was some women use FDS and some evidently prefer the natural scent of Hoppes No 9 gun oil. Went right over most everybody’s heads.
I guess most people don’t remember tv commercials the way I seem to.
Tomi has been in the news the past few days for her support of John Kelly’s racist comments about immigrant families. Specifically, Kelly said immigrants can’t assimilate and that their children go to a better place when separated from their mothers.
Of course she got rip apart in the media after it was reported that her own immigrant family had severe struggles assimilating.
WOW!! Stanford? ☑
Of course as a native woman myself, I wish her success in her career. We need more women but especially, women of color in politics.
A lawyer like Ms. Means with her deep understanding of SD/Tribal/Federal politics, liberal and progressive bent, would be a breath of fresh air in a partisan corruption ridden tiny state of 850,000, like SD where Jackley has “what, me worry, i’ma gonna be governor” posture of deferring to the GOP. Smooching trump. blatant yuk!
and a democratic governor and representative, and SD will finally turn a corner and never look back!
kochs will do everything possible to stop any blue wave occurring 2018. Billionaires want SD in their stack of chips. 849,995 of us don’t benefit from them destroying our democratic republic.
Paulette Jordan won the Idaho contest to become the Democratic party’s candidate for governor. She is trying to become the first Native American governor ever.