Republicans now have two primaries, with two West River women each trying to unseat the incumbent city-slicker pols currently doing Trump’s bidding in Washington.
While U.S. Senate candidate and current Rapid City legislator Scyller Borglum runs in the Badlands, but the red-suited engineer is still pretty city-slick herself with her frequent fancy coffee obsession. Former legislator Liz Marty May lives out in the country and out-cowgirls Snow Queen Kristi Noem herself in her video announcing her bid for South Dakota’s U.S. House seat:
Note the clear imagery: incumbent Representative Dusty Johnson is a weak critter amidst a dumb herd, while Liz Marty May is the woman on top, the boss cowgal, driving those animals where they need to go.
Like Borglum, May has to play the Trump card (though softly—catch that Trump cap on her brother Sam for just that half-second toward the end). But unlike Borglum, May can play that Trump card like she means it: May has a long record of anti-establishment right-wingery in the Legislature. May has shown she’s not afraid to buck her party line on CAFOs, corruption, higher ed, and the big Daugaard sales tax for teacher pay.
But I don’t want Liz May to become our Congresswoman any more than I want Dusty Johnson to remain in that position. It’s nothing personal; I like both of them as neighbors. But Liz May would continue the Republican punishment of the poor. I just want May and Johnson to beat the snot out of each other (come on, Dusty! Don’t play nice; run May’s “I’m all about the marijuana” quote from 2015!), have May come out on top by just two votes, and create a disaffected Jackley vote that will turn out in bigger numbers than they did for Sutton in 2018 to send the Democrats’ inevitably mild and moderate candidate to Washington to support the Sanders-Warren Administration’s Rebuilding of America.
Very telling video. Fences were broken and not mended. How typically wingnut of her. Plus she rode on the back of an underling so her Justins didn’t get dirty and still gave herself total credit.
May has not embraced Russians like Dirty has. Ya gots to roll around with the Russians like Dirty, Thune and EB5 have done in order to get traction in the South Dakota gumbo. There’s still time for May to take that trip to the Motherland and rub elbows with her fellow Duma’s in Russia though. Go get’um girl!
Sensible gun laws are akin to Jim Crow and white merchants like you, stealing from Indians, Liz? You’re an over-rated and under evidenced, extremist, aren’t you?
~Former Representative Elizabeth May (R-Kyle), a rancher and grocery store owner with deep roots in the Native American community, expressed grave concerns that such subjective gun laws are reminiscent of laws enacted in the South after the Civil War against blacks and those historically imposed on Native Americans.
“There’s a long history of discrimination when it comes to gun control,” she said. “These ‘red flag’ laws will result in a disproportionate impact and economic burden on the poorest and most vulnerable people of our society who are the least able to defend or recover their rights.” – CapJournal
I believe I know her, not well, but I think we’ve met. I used to serve the church in the video. There’s a lot of good people out there. I wonder what is going on?
I’d love to see Liz run Maria Butina in a campaign ad against Dusty. She can use my blog posts on the topic free of charge.
Dusty is a follower. I wrote all of our 3 representatives on the concerns with Pres. Trump. They all beat the same drum. Not enough to impeach a president. What that told me was 3 things: 1) they will rally behind a Republican president no matter what 2) party followers 3) spineless to do what is just and right by the constitution.
Elections are good – even if Liz May is one of the candidates.
Another Betty Olson clone………… If Independents were allowed to vote in republican primaries, I’d send Johnson a small check…… The woman is a train wreck. Johnson’s just a collision between Volkswagen buses.
REBUILD AMERICA! With 47 Democratic 10 minute speeches laser focused on Republican Senate’s theater-trial; Roberts/Collins remonstrances; DOJ, State, DOE, OMB, NSC ect. redaction/obstruction; defense team shotgun conspiracy theories & Obama distractions; Cippolone, Barr and Bolton’s knowledge; McConnell’s manipulation; all damaging to our democratic system of institutions in order to acquit the corrupt Republican president of illegality.
Roberts: direct a verdict notwithstanding the majority of the jury! Otherwise why should ANYONE abide the law, now?
Cull the Heard of the insanest first
Robert Reich-Clinton, Obama and many congressional Democrats sought the votes of the “suburban swing votes” – so-called “soccer moms” in the 1990s and affluent politically independent professionals in the 2000s – who supposedly determine electoral outcomes, and turned their backs on the working class. They also drank from the same campaign funding trough as the Republicans – big corporations, Wall Street and the very wealthy. [A direct 4 decade line connects] stagnation of wages with the bailout of Wall Street, the rise of the Tea Party (and, briefly, Occupy), and the successes of Sanders and Trump in 2016.
[S]ince 2000 Republican presidential candidates have steadily gained strength in America’s poorer counties while Democrats have lost ground. Dems cannot defeat authoritarian populism without an agenda of radical democratic reform….Trump…is the symptom of a rigged system that was already dividing us. It’s not enough to defeat him. We must reform the system that got us here in the first place, to ensure that no future politician will ever again imitate Trump’s authoritarian demagoguery. (Or Grdz’s racism and misogyny)
Grdz i note you off-gas Don Jr’s book/meme/trope that the left are haters trying to silence “us” (despicable deplorable corrupt republicans like you).
MJK, notice that Romney, who voted for witnesses, was not invited to C-PAC as punishment for not swearing complete allegiance to King Butt drumpf.
What’s with the radio silence from South Dakota’s 2 traitorous senators? I heard exactly one word out of each during the alleged impeachment trial and that word was no on witnesses.
Leslie points out that Dems must reform the system to overrule ImPotus. The biggest reformer is set to win in Iowa.
If you are talking about Sanders, let’s hope not.
A Sanders administration will try to end fracking, and it will try to impose solar and wind on the energy grid. However, we will burn more coal if natural gas and nuclear are not available for backup. The power will flow or the politicians will go.
The experiment is occurring in Germany. Yes, they have more renewables. Yes, they burn more coal. Energy storage capacity is at 2%. Costs for electricity are up. And for all the anti-nuclear opinions in Germany, that doesn’t stop them from importing nuclear-generated electricity from France…because the power must flow.
https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Is-Germany-Too-Dependent-On-Renewable-Energy.html
The better tactic for the Sanders wing would be to propose improving renewables and energy storage so that they can compete with gas with significantly reduced subsidies, and at least be open to nuclear to reduce the carbon and match supply with demand. Try things out for government entities before imposing it on the grid, like the Capitol or the White House.
I should add that the alternative to storage is to simply generate carbon-free backup power. But I don’t think Sanders is open to allowing nuclear to participate in that space. Maybe carbon capture with the coal.
Heck, while we’re being green, why not include the costs for better mining practices, recycling, and waste management….and power those items without emitting carbon? Can someone point me to where Sanders addresses those items?
I agree with Leslie’s point about the crucial need to reform the system. The candidate who has kept a plan to root out corruption in DC at the top of her platform is Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She knows better than anyone exactly how it works, having spent most of her professional life studying it, along with a team of experts.
Sen. Warren’s plan is detailed and especially, doable. Sen. Warren is good at team and consensus building and creating coalitions to sustain accomplishments.
We need Sen. Warren to fix the GOP dismantling of the USA. Sanders has good ideas, but not as good a record of accomplishments. Biden will maintain, at best. Buttigieg will be about the same. Klobuchar and Bloomberg would do better, but for sweeping, effective change to happen, we need Elizabeth Warren.
As always, I’ll give my vote and full support to the Democratic nominee.
JW, it took me a little, as I’m slowing down, but this “Johnson’s just a collision between Volkswagen buses.”, made me crack up. Gwwaad, I could see it.
If May comes at Dirty for Butina, then Dirty will get even dirtier with Chubby’s lawyer seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=nJGdIJQFmp4&feature=emb_title
Janklow tried to prevent publishing a book that delivered the goods on him. Rounds used the Republican legislature defend him from EB5 fraud allegations in the run up to his US Senate seat. SD is prescient in its Republican corruption. Trump is trying to stop the press on Bolton’s (not that i do not fear he is a trojan horse) book.
Mr. McTaggart: Why don’t you drop Sanders a line and offer him your advice. You might even offer up your services as an energy advisor. Do you suppose you could work with the rest of his staff that likely has more experience with the topic than you or I do?
Late-40s UTx law profs Bobby Chesney (90s Harvard JD) and Steve Valdek (2000s Yale JD) extraordinarily and precisely conclude (i am no constitutional lawyer) that the poison chalice McConnell wields irrelevantly and malevolently, the deliberative privilege “dancing-away-from” in Republican Chief Roberts’s pole-dances, and the Republican Senators frightened by White House threats to salaciously drag out the impeachment trial with 36 rounds of privilege litigation hampering their own reelections, will result in policy decisions by “people making decisions about principals they do not understand and cannot relate to”, and tarring Biden who Trump most fears. The real question remains for the future; how did Putin take down America’s democracy by hoisting Trump on his own petard (tower), and when will the Republican party collapse? Does might make right for the bully, or does the stupid “Trump world seeping like an oil spill throughout …” the Republican Senators and Representatives portend destruction of the nation? Very likely, unless something very extraordinary happens before 2pm mst.
Well, Trump pardoned Sheriff Arpaio and Seal Chief Gallagher, made Arpaio and mendacious propagandist Rush Limbaugh Presidential Freedom heroes, and in the fine Republican tradition of doxing National Security operatives when caught red-handed (by CIA agent Valerie Plame and an entire disgruntled Seal Team of whistle blowers), we know how much damage Trump will do.
Just like EB5, Bush v. Gore, HRC’s emails, the NRA, and the ACA, policy decisions are being made by stupid, unethical people (Republicans, mainly). Just read Don Jr’s tweets! To think that Trump’s sister was a federal judge! That Stephen Miller, Paul Manafort, Steve Bannon and Bob Mercer have been his prime advisors! So the Lost Cause, the Cold War, Joe McCarthy and Nikita Khrushchev are indeed alive and well. Kept alive by a heady Republican propaganda mix of Racism from some Americans’ capitol crimes of free land and resources for the taking, slavery and genocide, right-to-life religiosity, greed, and cowboy pistol madness.
Elizabeth May strikes me as one of those people. The Nile ain’t just a river, Liz. No going back to the good ole days, before we knew any better. MAGA, my ass.
It is my suspicion that since 1964 Republican think tanks ect have put together a white paper like Justice Powell’s that contemplates with precision how to takeover all three branches of the federal government, state and local governments, and the 4th estate, the media.
“a”, not “o”. Sorry
Well put Leslie. Makes me shudder at the evil possible in humanity.