Madison Business Elites Lean Hard Toward Jackley

Marty Jackley is nailing down the Madison vote. His pre-primary campaign finance report shows plenty of cash from the usual Chamber suspects:

• $1,500 from Pat Prostrollo
• $1,000 from Nick Prostrollo
• $500 from Darin Namken
• $500 from Brian Kern
• $500 from Bob Appelwick
• $500 from Scott Gusso
• $500 from Casey Crabtree
• $1,000 from Russell Olson (plus another $7,500 from Russ’s Leading South Dakota PAC)
• $1,500 from Aaron Gamewell
• $500 from Tim Peters
• $1,500 from Gene Phillips
• $500 from Dan Roemen
• $500 from Floyd Rummel
• $500 from Bob Sahr
• $500 from Randy Schaefer
• $1,750 from Terry Schultz
• $500 from Pete Stemper
• $500 from Wendy Kloeppner (not really a usual suspect in Madison, but Lake County’s new state’s attorney knows she’d better stick with her fellow prosecutor)
• $500 from Ron Howe (works in Sioux Falls but wheels and deals in Madison)
• $1,500 from DeLon Mork

That’s over $23K from Madison’s mostly male leading business lights. Our friend DeLon Mork from the world-renowned Madison Dairy Queen isn’t just in for the price of 500 Blizzards. He’s also lending his golden tones to Jackley’s campaign on the local airwaves:

Note that DeLon’s lead points are that Jackley’s “a good husband, father, and sportsman” with “great character and integrity.” I’m not sure if palling around with a sheriff who punishes victims of sexual harassment, denying a grievance about retaliation against a DCI agent for reporting sexual harassment, and then dragging his feet in paying out the million-plus in damages that a jury awards that sexual harassment victim deserved for said retaliation counts as “great character and integrity.”

Compare the above figures to Noem’s scanty pre-primary take from anybody in Madison:

• $165 from James Montgomery
• $300 from subsidy bird of a feather Douglas Sunde
• $200 from Tim Higgins
• $500 from Mark Kontz (works in Sioux Falls but lives at Lake Madison)
• $250 from Marcia Wenk

That’s well short of $2K from Madison. If dollars were votes, we could expect to see Jackley take Madison in the primary 94% to 6% over Noem.

p.s.: Even Billie Sutton is got more Madison money than Noem over the last four and a half months: $150 from Ron Minneart, $1,500 from Scott Parsley.