Kelsey Grammer told South Dakotans to vote for accused (but curiously still not charged) drug abuser and billionaire Henry T. Nicholas’s showboating crime victims’ bill of rights and its subsequent emergency fix. Now Jennifer Lawrence tells us to vote for something that might actually be useful in South Dakota—Amendment W:
“Give South Dakota voters the final say”—it doesn’t matter who says it; protections of initiative and referendum from Legislative tinkering are all I need to justify voting Yes on W.
Good. Simple, concise and just the way it should be.
I think when SDGOP starts making up scheit about her, as they’re certainly already doing, Ms. Lawrence ought to use them for target practice with her trusty bow and arrows.
See, there’s nothing for them to refute in the ad itself, so they’ll attack her. That’s all they’ve got. It will probably be that she stands up for herself and other women.
Debbo, if the SDGOP attacks her, would Lawrence care enough to strike back?
Katniss Everdeen for W(e the People), and Grudz and Owen for Wrong. It’s not even a fair fight.
Right wing electric co-ops are all in for voting no on W. Didn’t realize that they have just shown their political behind as I just got my Cooperative Connections and the co-op leadership seems all in for corruption. Kinda surprised me to see their blatant support for denying the will of the people. First off, they wet their pants on Represent Us as a bogeyman. Then they dig further into their Depends on End Citizens United Non-Federal and then the vapors continue with the grass roots Represent Us as giving in order, S121,000.00, $15,000.00 (in-kind) and then Represent Us $47,238.00 of the grass roots level. My my what kind of payoff will the co-ops get for this. Can we expect higher rates with no real check on the reasons? Man, this is right out of the trump playbook on screwing the people for the benefit of the elite.
In short, if you all like corruption, then vote No like the electric co-ops want you to do. If you have had a belly full of corruption, then vote Yes like law abiding citizens should do.
Co-op can play politics? Doesn’t seem like it should be legal.
Exactly, purpose of W is to help eliminate corruption. Electric co-ops must feel endangered to that sort of corruption thing and have embraced and supported it with a slobbery wet kiss.
Wow, talk about star-power! Together with Taylor Swift’s loud’n proud Democratic support, the youth vote, and women are going to carry the Blue Wave up the Mid-Coast shores of the mighty Missouri River all the way through out SD.
Electric co-ops have interests like everyone else. I always found the local distribution co-ops were run by pretty reasonable people, but they tended to get directives from higher up in the chain. The higher up folks tend to direct the flow of power, both electrons and otherwise, down to the local folks. So, apparently the bigwigs want to be able to play the elite con game, rather than re-direct their efforts to more local, citizen-based ways of operating. Too bad. I hope rural voters see through this.
The co-ops got hooked on coal back in the 1970s and 1980s when cheap ND lignite came on the market. There was a big bottom-up effort in Minnesota to reform the cooperatives. As a result, I believe Minnesota co-ops have started being more responsive to the people they serve. They were weaning themselves off coal. North Dakota and South Dakota coops may still be addicted to coal. Because the coal industry is so corrupt, they want to make sure they have partners in the corruption.
Im not sure what this is about, since they don’t have to run their rate increases through the PUC. I must be about wanting to be able to strongarm the PUC and Legislature over pipelines.
J Lawrence is a west coast icky librul ain’t she? That’s worse than an east coast, Ivy League snob.
I always thought Midwesterners were the sane ones until they voted for Drumpf.
The proposed Amendment W is Whacky as all get out. South Dakotan’s don’t want an unaccountable tribunal with an unlimited pocketbook running the out-of-state interests priorities into every day South Dakotan’s lives.
W is Wrong as all hell. Float it on the cost alone and watch it die.
Grudzneck Chicken Squawk … What exactly are these “out-of-state interest’s priorities”? Is there some hidden, unknown wealth of potential that needs protecting? Why would anyone anywhere spend money to tell you what to do? FYI ~ We The People truly care about the oppression so many in SD live under. That’s why money is spent. It’s our liberal obligation to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. This means you Squawker.
I feel your deep love for me, Mr. Lansing, despite your Colorado imitation of an Iowa rudeness. You do truly love me, and I mean that in a deep, manly way. Not a Colorado way.
Are you finally coming out, Grudzie? We’ve got a pool going.
Has anyone read the complete Amendment? Perhaps it is time to take a deep breath and read the amendment.
https://ballotpedia.org/South_Dakota_Constitutional_Amendment_W,_State_Campaign_Finance_and_Lobbying_Laws,_Government_Accountability_Board,_and_Initiative_Process_Amendment_(2018)
W is what happens when the people of SD say they have had enough of corruption and inside dealings. But their elected officials do not act on these concerns (it would be against their self-interests to), so citizens take the matter in their own hands through initiated measure. Then the legislature usurps that will and denies the will of the people — without any real capitulation to the will and want of the people.
Amendment W is not just a constitutional amendment, it is the bubbling up of frustration of citizens on the right side of a moral issue availing themselves of the only pathway forward. Just as the repeal of IM was not the end of the issue, I don’t see even the defeat of W being the end of the issue, and as the legislature refuses to act in the way needed, citizens will continue to.
To be fair, voters continue to send a mixed message when we state disapproval of how our legislators act, then continue to send those same legislator back to Pierre. It feels like anger over issues is one thing, an choice of elected candidates is another thing and those two are not related. I cannot think of any explanation outside of tribal partisanship.
The fundamental disrespect of the democratic will of the people and cognitive dissonance of this state frustrates me.
O very eloquently described South Dakota voters:
“The fundamental disrespect of the democratic will of the people and cognitive dissonance of this state frustrates me.”
I feel your deep love for me, Mr. Lansing, despite your Colorado imitation of an Iowa rudeness. You do truly love me, and I mean that in a deep, manly way. Not a Colorado way.
After Drumpf and wingnuts have reamed yer brain cavity it is hard to imagine you could feel anything, Grudzilla.
Grudz continually talks about an unaccountable tribunal, but that is what I call the SD Legislature. They rubberstamp all the corruption, and revel in the spoils of office rather than doing their jobs. They set up a system of governance that assures no one is held accountable, especially themselves. Even when they have power to investigate, they stick their heads in the sand. South Dakota has a lot of unaccountable tribunals, by the way. That’s how we ended up with the sewage ash debacle, Superfund sites at mines, a failed packing plant and a dead family. Grudz is an unashamed apologist for unaccountable tribunals, except when they are tasked to root out corruption. And that is why W has been needed for decades. We is for We the People.
Billionaires, especially liberal ones, aren’t just funding candidates and impeachment campaigns in 2018. Many are also funding ballot initiatives around the country, mostly in states they don’t live in.
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) found that 34 billionaires including liberals George Soros, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg and Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent a combined $78 million on statewide ballot measures this year. The story was co-published by the left-wing magazine The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/zuckerberg-soros-and-steyer-fund-ballot-initiatives/573304/
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/julia-seymour/2018/10/22/billionaires-including-soros-zuckerberg-and-steyer-spend-78m
And the koch bros outspend all the billionaires Jason’s hit piece mentions.
Drumpf’s inner circle contains 21 billionaires, several of which are in his cabinet of crooks, cruds and crimenentlys.
Sheldon Adelson is so much more of a contributor than Soros and yet, we hear nothing of his right wing pandering.
The unions and planned parenthood outspent the kochs and Adelson.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/richest-billionaires-are-top-political-spenders/
Lots of money floating around out there.
I always wondered how “crimenently” is spelled. Mystery solved. Thank you Mike.