SDGOP Chairman Dan Lederman, District 25 Representative Jon Hansen, and Governor Kristi Noem are keen on demonizing out-of-staters who, in their view, disrupt South Dakota’s public discourse.
Will those Republicans publicly condemn the armed provocateur and fellow Mississippi interlopers who tried to disrupt Saturday’s Pride parade and festival in Sioux Falls?
A group of anti-gay and anti-abortion protesters showed up at Saturday’s Pride Parade downtown and the Pride event at Terrace Park.
Sioux Falls Police separated the protestors from the Pride participants.
Witnesses said the group walked through the Pride event with anti-gay and anti-abortion posters.
One of the members of the group had an open carry pistol, which is legal in South Dakota [Todd Epp, “A Couple of non-Violent Disturbances at Pride Parade, Pride Event,” KELO Radio, 2019.06.17].
SFPD press dude Sam Clemens noted that these conservative hollerers broke no laws. And as South Dakota’s federal court would surely note, visitors from Mississippi have as much right to speak publicly in South Dakota as we locals do.
But given Lederman’s, Hansen’s, and Noem’s purported loathing of out-of-state speakers, they should be pounding the dais today railing against these interlopers and telling these Mississippians to stay home and not interfere in South Dakota politics, right? Right, Right?
South Mississippi came up to North Mississippi (ht/Mike) to protest? Too many Americans aren’t aware of Jim Hightower’s quote, “It’s not Left v. Right. It’s top v. bottom.
Yes Cory, if the SDGOP leadership had any real moral and ethical position, they’d be just as upset about the South Mississippians as about bogeyman Soros, me, Mike, Don, Porter, or anyone else. But they lack any morals or ethics at all.
Right, Debbo. SD Republicans hate out of state influencers but let out of staters run the reform school in Plankinton and staff it with child abusers, answer four of the four hundred complaints and send the profits elsewhere. Powers and Lederman have two terms they use to lead the half-educated around by their ignorance. Liberals and Out of Staters.
Let it remain recorded that “out-of-state name-caller” is a term coined by grudznick. Not Messrs. PP or Lederman. Mr. Lederman hisownself is supposedly an Iowegian, if you read some of the bloggings.
grudznick, you certainly DO have some memorable catch phrases. But tonight’s from Mr. PP’s blog is one Cory will remember. Let’s see. You’ve had “Vote No On Everything”. “Weed is bad, very bad.” “Out of state name callers.”
But this one … wow?
~ One Reply to “Bad guys trying to roll back protections against professional out-of-state petitioners who are violating laws.”
grudznick
June 17, 2019 at 8:03 pm
People pushing measures initiated are almost never telling you the whole story.
Don’t sign. Or sign it with the name of an out-of-state name-caller trying to meddle in South Dakota.
Indeed. Shocked, I am, that you read that, and delighted that you helped me to spread the word here that people could sign petitions as one “Lorter Pansing” from “Aberdeen” or something and then the poor state secretary will have a dickens of a time sorting it all out.
Grudznick is encouraging potential petition signers to break the law by forging their names, sounds like the SDGOP.
Mr. C, what about all the petition mongers who aren’t following the laws? Sounds like the dying Democrat party. Did you see those two fellows on the street outside Talley’s and down half a block towards Hardees last Sunday morning after breakfast? I know they were illegally collecting.
Perhaps they will call it “MIM Boosting.” Measures initiated meddling boosting. A civil tort, no doubt, if one encourages another to perform an illegal act. In fact, if I follow some of the pipeline whining I could pay people to do MIMing and should be able to call it my right of free speech. After all, I’m just giving them ideas, maybe buying them a breakfast or two.
MIM Boosting seems like it would physically harm far less property and human life than riot boosting.
Grudz, your whataboutisms are meaningless, I’m talking about you and only you have suggested petitioner signers do.
I have not been to Tally’s or Hardee’s for sometime so I did not see anyone gathering petitions on a Sunday.
Remember republican Dr. Bosworth got in a heap of legal trouble for messing with petitions.
grudznick mimics poorly iambic pentameter. His life … is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing.
Porter and Roger, it sounds like the poor little liar is desperate for attention. It’s nice that you two are willing to give him the occasional pat on the head. Too bad he’s not toilet trained. 😆😆😆
greatest out of state agitators swaying SD off track from goodness and courage are Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Koch Brothers SD, Rush Limbaugh and KOTA radio, Rapid City.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/arts/television/rupert-murdoch-roger-ailes-fox.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
From what I hear, grudznick and the legislators his lobbyist money bribes, love the out of state females at the strip clubs in Pierre. A lap dance is a lap dance, no matter where the dancer lives, huh g.nic?
Really, Grudz? Tell me about the circumstances that lead you to believe people were illegally circulating petitions. I do not want any illegally collected signatures in the boxes I bring to Pierre.