Kristi Noem’s campaign fundraising trip to Dallas last week was certainly worth the time and effort. According to three supplementary campaign finance reports filed by the Kristi for Governor campaign—on October 21, October 22, and October 26—Noem’s personal appearance in a year when she’s not on the ballot in South Dakota, Texas, or anywhere else appears to have parted 47 Texas donors from $59,583.96. That’s 30% of the $195,509.59 Team Noem reports raising last week.
Closer to home, Noem’s new contributions in the past week include the usual tribute due from top state employees:
- Deputy Attorney General Charles McGuigan: $1,000.
- Game Fish and Parks Secretary Kelly Hepler: $1,000.
- Health Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon: $1,000.
- Social Services Secretary Laurie Gill: $1,000.
- Labor Secretary Marcia Hultman: $1,000.
- Chief Engineer Jeanne Goodman: $500.
- School and Public Lands Secretary Ryan Brunner: $1,000 from his campaign fund.
- Bureau of Administration Commissioner Scott Bollinger: $1,000.
- Chief of Finance Liza Clark: $1,000.
- Bureau of Finance and Management Director of Financial Systems Colin Keeler: $1,000.
- Corrections Secretary Michael Leidholt: $1,000.
- Revenue Secretary Jim Terwilliger: $1,000.
- Human Service Deputy Secretary Tom Martinec: $1,000.
- State Lottery Director Norman Lingle: $500.
No one has officially declared any 2022 campaign, but Noem’s total reported in these three supplemental reports would bring her cash on hand for a 2022 campaign to $6,000 more than $1,000,000. Among Democrats maintaining statewide campaign funds, Billie Sutton has $42,215.53, Remi Bald Eagle has $10,696.70, Wayne Frederick has $1,418.85 (as of June; his pre-general report is late!, and Aaron Matson has $272.37. Noem thus has 18 times more money on hand than those four Democrats together.
Kristi does Dallas.
I wonder how many people will catch that great line.
Maybe she can make a sequel to the Original “Kristy” does Dallas in her new movie studio.
I’ll bet the deficit would be gone in ticket sales.
Talent is talent….
Campaign finance disclosure is important and it reveals what we already knew: players pay to play.
Budmayr?
Nix, only those of us with a keen sense of irony and truthiness.
Unofficially, it appears upper echelon employees have to pony up $1000 to keep their jobs.
Whoops! Right, Greg: I mixed up cronies. Ryan Brunner gave Noem $1K from his campaign kitty; Lawrence & schiller guy and former SDGOP exec Ryan Budmayr is listed right below on the October 26 supplemental with a personal donation of $1K. I apologize for the error.
Is Maggie/Noem putting stiff arm on Appointees and employees??
$1,000 seems like a suggested number?? Not running this year! Oh well need money, Thune has north of $10 million, no race and asking all the time!!
Mr. Nix, I expect only degenerates of at least a certain age, like you, Mr. H, and grudznick really appreciate the title of the blogging. Makes me want to have somebody go dig through old boxes and find my late 70’s VHS movie tapes in the garage.
I don’t think SD’s failure of a governor is going to get enough from Texas to help even in Texas itself. NBC has moved the state from the Lean Red category to Toss Up and the Texas GOP is in a panic.
The TGOP is right there with SD on the corruption scale so they probably know that if they lose the state in the presidential race, state offices will not be far behind and a lot of genuine investigations will follow.
Of course if Biden wins Texas, Trembling Toddler is toast. Uber corrupt Texas Gov. Abbott is calling out the Guard to stand around near voting sites and intimidate voters of color.
Next Tuesday the TGOP will post on Twitter that “illegals” have been arrested while trying to vote and that the Guard is checking IDs, warrants, etc. That will all be lies, but we’re talking GOP here, so of course the party of zero morals will do it.