Are South Dakota Republicans so mad at Dr. Christine Blasey Ford that they’re going to forget they are the party with a powerful woman at the top of their ticket and just call all powerful women uppity?
That’s all I can make from the SDGOP spin blog’s sally against a campaign event, titled “The Power of the Purse,” being hosted at swanky digs on South Place in Sioux Falls on Wednesday, October 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. The main hosts are Leah and Cathy Piersol and Sara Crosby; co-hosts include Sanaa Abourezk, Erika Batcheller, Jennifer Hegg, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Suzy Collignon Hodgen (another MHS grad!) Margaret Sumption, and other important women. The flyer that Pat Powers posts advertises the event as “a gathering of powerful women in support of Billie Sutton for Governor.” The invitation says, “Our guest list includes powerful women voters from across the political spectrum. We respect all viewpoints and encourage constructive dialogue during this event.”
Somehow I think these diverse and open-minded women can be excused if they choose not to respect the strange insult Pat Powers throws at them:
It might be just me… but does that invitation come off as a bit “elitist?” [Pat Powers, “Apparently only ‘powerful’ women need attend Sutton event. Sponsored in part by former Hillary Clinton spokesperson,” Dakota War College, 2018.10.09].
So… women with power are “elitist”? But powerful Kristi Noem, four-term Congresswoman with a multi-million-dollar campaign war chest, is not “elitist”… simply because Pat occasionally sees her at Hy-Vee in Brookings?
What exactly is the “elitist” trigger in this invitation? Are women not allowed to declare their power? Are the women receiving this invitation to a campaign fundraiser somehow too powerful for Pat’s taste? Are the women rallying for Sutton any more “elitist” than the Minnesotans who paid $4,000 a head to grease Kristi’s palms at a Minneapolis fundraiser last November, or the wealthy backers who paid $5,000 in Sioux Falls last month to have their photo taken with Donald Trump?
If anything, the successful and influential women hosting this event seem more inclusive than elitist. They are inviting women of numerous viewpoints to come and not simply clap for Billie but to ask his campaign staff questions and register to vote if they haven’t already (ah—helping empower those who may not have power). These women are affirming and sharing their power. But apparently in the SDGOP spin cycle, only women like Kristi Noem are allowed to have power. Women who dare to express their power in support of Billie Sutton are “elitist,” which I can only read as genteel code for “uppity.”
The only consistency in Pat’s attack on these powerful women is the basic Trumpist tactic of attacking any women who challenge Republican power.
Carry on, ladies.
I saw your post on this last night and did not have time to comment then. The first thing that came to mind was Kristis fundraiser in Sioux Falls recently where Trump appeared. $500 just for the dinner? $5000 to get a photo with Cheeto man? Tell me how elitist was that? I’ve yet to see any event to support Billie asking those numbers to attend. Most of what I’ve seen is “free will offerings”. But as usual the republicans are using scare tactics and smoke and mirrors to try to disguise their candidates many flaws. I think they are seeing the truth, that people are tired of politics as usual here in South Dakota, I’m hoping it shows up at the polls in November.
All women are powerful – the problem is that too many have not been allowed the opportunity to demonstrate it (yet). Election day might be a wonderful opportunity for many women to express their power.
Voice is the demonstration of power.
Does PP consider Mrs. PP a “powerful woman,” I wonder, or is she just a doormat, a cipher or a non-entity? Let’s hear that answer, and, if he answers wrong, let’s see if Mrs. PP doen’t hand PP his testicles by the end of the evening.
I think the key for PP should be “from across the political spectrum.” That is what is key to this race.
Mr. Powers should have thought this through. Lazy Dirtball Kristi Noem is his candidate. If promoting a woman to be governor is good, but women who contribute together to elect a governor is bad, isn’t that a conflicted statement about women in politics?
Help me out here!
Once again, the only dirt he and Lazy Dirtball Kristi Noem can toss is All-American cowboy Billie Sutton is a Democrat. What a shock. The horrors. Big surprise.
Lazy Dirtball Kristi Noem told everybody in June that she had this election locked up. No need to lower herself to have to talk to those little people again. Let’s just focus on what kind of drapes we want in the Mansion and rehash the B rolls from the primary for the last week of the campaign.
Guess they were wrong.
https://mic.com/articles/191818/christine-blasey-ford-nominated-university-of-north-carolina-alumna-award#.RlB2WPiFQ
Some people are behind Dr Ford. Good for them. Good for an especially brave woman who knew she would get mansplained by dingbat wingnuts.
I have to wonder, how would the nomination have played out if the accusers, Dr. Ford et al, had been men?
Oh, yeah – makes perfect sense. Any woman who doesn’t vote the way PP thinks she should is obviously elitist and, if she has power (especially more than PP does), is even more obviously elitist, and we just can’t have those kind of women having an influence in politics.
Heard this nonsense for so many years I can just regurgitate yards of it.
Strange, just strange, be thankful we’re not as as small-minded as Pat Powers.
He is a perfect example of everything that is wrong about the one party system in SD.
Jenny, we have two parties in South Dakota. It’s not your fault, you don’t live here so you didn’t know. You live in Minnesota which is a one party state. State of Abuse. You know the Women Abuser State: Senators, House Representatives soon to be Attorney General. . .
I’m pretty happy that isn’t a sickness in our state.
OldSteppedonhisownmonkey, raised on the Rez, was you?
My guess is that many, if not all, of the women, and or their significant others, on that list shop at Hy-Vee; but the conservation could get interesting at this event, if any one begins to ask about Sutton’s campaign manager’s comments on abortion, however. Fore, it is that conversation, or a lack of debate, which will truly judge whether “elitism” is in the equation here:
http://www.sdpb.org/blogs/kevinwoster/noem-vs-sutton-on-abortion-issue-gentle-opposition-versus-anything-but-gentle/
P.P.you just have to figure the source is .By the way where is hero Jason Gant these days.
Phat Powers is so full of himself that he thinks what he says people actually listen to. What a dud.
OldSarge, I think you mean to call our neighbors to the east the state of accountability where men take responsibility and are held accountable for their actions. That very much IS different from so many of the national scandals that have played out with neither responsibility or accountability. Is it seriously your contention that SD has no abuse of women?
White, male privilege much?
From Juanita Jean, herownself- Also in Kansas is a Republican precinct chairman named Michael Kalney who ain’t doin’ all that good. Kalney took to social media and wrote a jumble of freaky words to Anne Pritchett, president of the Johnson County Democratic Women.
“Little Ms. Pritchett- you and your comrades stealth attack on Yoder is going to blow up in your leftist face,” Kalny wrote. “The REAL REPUBLICANS will remember what the scum DEMONRATS tried to do to Kavanaugh in November. Your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation.”
Roughly 50 exclamation points followed the end of the message.
I just love how Republicans respect women
Mike says – “Good for an especially brave woman who knew she would get mansplained by dingbat wingnuts.” I don’t think you know what mansplained means or how to use it. I would explain it to you…but…the irony would be deafening.
“Back to the Rez” is a racist cry with which we’re all familiar in SD, and apparently in KS too. “[R]adical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian” combines language misuse, lies, job-shaming, homophobia and racism. He got it all in one sentence, and started with gender diminishment and misogyny, by saying “Little Miss Pritchett”. Boy, oh boy, Not everbody can do that. Impressive? NOT.
Pompatus of Pablum, unlike you, I am conscious, awake, alive and breathing, etc. I’d explain why I used mansplaining the way I did, but then you’d slap yerself up alongside the head and exclaim you could have had a V-8.
Robin, leave mike alone. He’s not “right”. He is under medical care and needs your prayers more than criticism. Mike we are praying for you.
OldSupposedtibeaLakotacultureexpert- Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
Since you are too stoopid to read and comprehend, Robin wasn’t even addressing me, but you just had to open the cavernous blowhole and let it rip.
OldSupposedtibeaLakotacultureexpert- Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.
Since you are too stoopid to read and comprehend, Robin wasn’t even addressing me, but you just had to open the kavernous blowhole and let it rip.
Kristi has never EVER done anything to demonstrate that she’s powerful. Never. Didn’t do the job she had, when she was one of 435. Couldn’t be bothered with Agriculture. Couldn’t be bothered to attend committee meetings so she could know what she was doing. What would make anyone think she’s capable of doing the job if she was chief executive of the state?
Robin, yo unen to get together with mike and eat some of his meds.
In fact, you may consider it gone and done for, but I don’t. I still remember that NOem couldn’t be counted on to pay or respond in any way to multiple speeding tickets, thought they were something to be ignored, then did the same with mutiple summonses, and then the same with warrants for her arrest. Couldn’t be counted on to even follow the law as a South Dakotan, let alone make any laws.
The Russian and Kayne both sound alike, hmmm could be the same guy. Take your meds boys.
Thanks anyway, OS, but I think I will continue my adopted practice of just sliding right over your posts as if they’re not there.
Kanye, sorry about that Russian. He went off in la la land with your boy today in the Oval Office, of all places. NOem must be even prouder of the trumper rabbit. Gwaad, how embarrassing for the the country to see, two madmen praising the Rocket Man.
So Mr. Powers, what is it about a gathering hosted by educated, accomplished, independent women that scares you so much? A question from a Sutton supporter who worked 3 jobs to put myself through college and grad school, and is damn proud to be an educated, accomplished and independent woman.
With you, Kate, all the way!
I think women being successful or powerful is great. I support everyone who takes action to be the best they can be. I am proud of my mother’s successes and my wife’s and I am proud of each new milestone my daughter reaches. I hope one day she is as successful and powerful as she wants to be.
I don’t know pat powers and i have never read that blog, but he didn’t say what a lot of you are accusing him of saying. Pat probably used the word “powerful” in quotes because it was used three times on an INVITATION. Pat probably said the invitation came off a bit elitist for several reasons: again, it brags about the “power” these people have, it references the “power of the purse” and it even has the name of the “artist” who created the invitation. How is that not weird to anybody? If you received an invitation for an event, and the people holding the event told you three times…ON THE INVITATION ITSELF…how powerful they were…and then they had “credits” on the invitation for the invitation-maker…wouldn’t you sort of be like…what a weird invitation…? Wouldn’t you think…jeez, these people are kind of full of themselves…?
You are all mad because you think pat is saying women aren’t powerful, or because you think pat is undermining all women in some way. I don’t see it that way. I think pat is just suggesting that this specific invitation comes across a bit smug. I think it does too, and it has nothing to do with the gender of the people named on the invitation. If I was invited to an event and the all-male lineup of hosts repeatedly called themselves “powerful” on the invitation, I would avoid that event like I avoid frat parties because people who call themselves powerful are often either corrupt, dumb, or selling something.
Cory used the word uppity. Several of you commenters have used your own words. But those words appear to be an indication of your own feelings more than of pat’s.
Ryan, I offer a logical interpretation of Powers’s post and the intent behind it. The invitation speaks of “powerful” women. He portrays that term as “elitist.” He did not post the invitation to compliment it or the women listed. He posted it to insult them. “Uppity” is his intended subtext.
Kate, rock on. We need powerful women. We need all women to exercise their power and vote the Republican Party, which denigrates them at every available turn with insults like Powers’s, out of power.
Cory, if all parties were male, would it be elitist to call yourself powerful 3 times on a party invite that contains credits? Yep, sure would.
Ryan, I don’t get either how your hypothetical analogizes to the actual invitation or how it logically leads to supporting the charge of “elitist” in either your imagined world or this real world. I welcome your clarification.
It’s very simple:
People calling themselves powerful – repeatedly, and in print – are elitist. People who brag about the power of their wealth or spending decisions (power of the purse) are elitist. People who consider their event invitations to be worthy of “credits” for the “artist” are elitist.
It’s not about the gender of the people who did this – it’s about the snobbery that it took to do it.
No, it’s not, not any more than folks who rallied around the call of “Black Power” were elitist. In the current climate, the women at this event (tonight! anyone go? anyone get a headcount?) are asserting their power against the misogynist regime of Trump/Kavanaugh. A disrespected, oppressed group openly expressing its power is asserting equality, not elitism.
I know, fellas, tough giving up privilege. Deal with it.
Also not snobbery:
When I speak with voters about ballot measures and the importance of initiative and referendum, I tell voters that we are powerful. I repeatedly remind them that we can create enormous, important change when we exercise our power by raising our voices and voting. I do not tell them they are powerful to stroke their egos or assert some false sense of superiority. I do it to help them recognize their equality and their right to exercise the power that our oppressors would deny us.
Cory, you are officially too radical for me. You are off the deep end. I think you and I believe many of the same things are desirable outcomes for our society, but you make some serious leaps in your logic. Not everything any republican does is wrong and not everything any democrat does is right. There is gray in this world. There is nuance that you ignore just to be the most hyper-left you can be.
Billie’s campaign for governor is not a war against trump. There is no Trump/Kavanaugh regime. Nobody is fighting the war you pretend is happening here. The invitation mentioned nothing whatsoever about the meaning you are officiously assigning to it. If you are so entrenched in your political opinions that you can’t see something right in front of your face, you are no better than the republican yes-men you rail so much against. I have been saying this for a while. You think your side is right, so you ignore all the dumb stuff happening. That’s exactly what you accuse the “other side” of doing – party line this, or marching orders that. You are doing the exact same thing. So fine, you think this invitation is totally normal and not ridiculous? OK. I wonder how diverse the turnout was.
You keep saying crap like “I know, fellas, tough giving up privilege. Deal with it.” but that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not this invitation comes across as elitist. You and several commenters on here have made it clear you think a gender war is afoot, but it isn’t.
Ryan, as best that I can tell Cory’s original post addressed and criticized the manner in which Pat Powers characterized the invitation in his blog. I looked again and couldn’t find any language in Cory’s post characterizing the invitation one way or the other. Did I miss something in the original post?
Ryan sez … “Cory, you are officially too radical for me.” Yet, here he is.
Lord when Cory gets lectures from dingbat wingnuts, the world is gonna end pretty pronto.
bcb – I’m not sure what you mean. My first comment was directed at everyone railing on what meaning they ascribed to the invitation and what words they were putting in pat’s mouth. Cory criticized pat’s interpretation of the invitation, and I suggested his interpretation appears justified to me and offered reasons for my suggestion.
porter – do you withdraw from every conversation in which you disagree with somebody? I certainly invite you to withdraw from this one.
mike – i would ask you to explain to me what you consider to be the traits of “dingbat wingnuts” but based on your substance-free posting history, I am confident in my guess that you just mean that when you disagree with somebody you make up little school girl names for them, so call me whatever you want.
This is one Woman’s idea of power.
Bloom says helping women, even reluctant ones, kill their unborn children is “most rewarding.”
“Making a deep connection, making a difference – and then letting it go – is super-powerful,” she told the BBC.
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45666460
Jason, where does the article say “. . . even reluctant ones?” There is no element of coercion in that article. You might not like the choice, but it is a Constitutionally guaranteed choice that is being freely made.
Why bother linking to article if you are going to make up what it says anyway?
you make up little school girl names for them, so call me whatever you want.
How do you like Pompatus of Pablum? That, in my estimation, fits like a glove.
As for substance free comments, I don’t do drugs. OTOH, you prattle on like you be wired to the teeth.
“eyes only” bcb Talking about mean people, Atlantic Mag has a story coming that Lee Atwater confessed to having set up Gary Hart to get caught with a woman not his wife.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/was-gary-hart-set-up/570802/
I knew the guy was a slimeball and all his asking for forgiveness when he knew brain tumor would kill doesn’t absolve him.
But HRC had emails.
mike stutters, “you prattle on like you be wired to the teeth.”
It’s just passion, mike. You might remember caring about things back before this world moved on and left you behind, but maybe not. Now you just wait for the TV to tell you what to think, right? That’s easier. Just eat and listen, eat and listen.
Ryan, sorry for the misunderstanding. I read your phrase,
as directed at Cory and his comments in the original post, which seemed to say Cory had officiously assigned some particular to the invitation.
I don’t have a drop of tv programming. Not even local stations. I use my screen to watch old movies. I am not programmed into Fake Noize day and night. I did see a fox go through the corn crib drag a couple days ago.
You can only dream of being what I am. I don’t have to put on airs or pretend to be smart and I really don’t care what anyone thinks of me. I have stuff to say and I am grateful to have places to vent my spleen all over SFW!( No SFW were hurt in this rant)
“You can only dream of being what I am.”
mike, I could be you tomorrow if I let my wife hit me in the noggin thirteen or fourteen times with my mini sledge. I’ll take a pass on that one.
o wrote:
Jason, where does the article say “. . . even reluctant ones?”
During the procedure a lot of women will come out and say things like, “I really wanted this baby but I don’t have enough money,” Bloom says. Or, “I feel so sad about this but taking care of my two kids right now is enough.”
“Occasionally a client who feels bad about what is going on with themselves might lash out a bit – ‘How can you live with yourself, knowing that you wake up in the morning and choose to be part of this?’