Democratic candidate for Governor Jamie Smith wasn’t on the primary ballot yesterday. But his campaign team or someone who likes him gave easy primary winner Governor Kristi Noem’s nose a good honk yesterday.
An eager reader noticed the other day that part-time Governor and full-time campaign fundraiser Kristi Noem’s “Defend Title IX” website appeared to have gone dead. Now it appears that URL has been transformed into exactly the kind of Internet raspberry that results when politicians don’t update their domain registrations.
WHOIS records show that Team Kristi registered defendtitleixnow.com on March 21, 2021, a day before she held her awkward press conference with Herschel Walker and some dragooned teenagers to distract everyone from her clumsy, base-maddening veto of an anti-transgender bill. Noem kept the website open for maybe a year, mostly, it appears, to harvest names and contact information for more campaign fundraising. The WHOIS record says the registration of this URL ends March 21, 2023, but the registration was updated on May 2, 2022. A check in recent days showed the domain was parked, serving up no content. But if you click on defendtitleixnow.com now, the domain redirects your browser to smithforgov.org, the campaign website of Noem’s Democratic challenger, Representative Jamie Smith:
The link now is at least honest: if you want to defend Title IX, and women’s sports, and equal access to educational opportunities for girls and women, and women’s opportunity and health and equality in general, you should vote for Jamie Smith for Governor.
When Team Kristi launched defendtitleixnow.com, Governor Noem included a URL to this campaign website on her official state press release. As of this morning, that March 22, 2021, press release remains on the state website:
Thus, right now, there is a link on the state website that opens the campaign website of the Governor’s Democratic opponent. Let’s see how long it takes Noem to scrub that embarrassing reminder of her own inattention (when was that domain registration bill due again?) from the state website.
Making South Dakota safe for Democrats one nanometer at a time!
Well this is hilarious 😂
Just once, could you be honest about what was in HB 1217, the 2021 Fairness in Women’s Sports bill?
It had a provision in it that no student could participate in a sport if, at any time during the preceding 12 months, he or she had taken “any performance enhancing drug.”
Since no list of the prohibited drugs was included, that left the realm of performance enhancing drugs wide open to include acetaminophen, adderal, albuterol, caffeine, cannabis, digoxin, dilantin, diphenhydramine, Ibuprofen, insulin, levothyroxine, just to name a few. And when the governor pointed out that a “performance -enhancing drug” could be ANYTHING, and they needed to strike the whole section, the legislature refused.
Even without a list of prohibited drugs to go by, they still thought a teenager’s physician would be willing to sign an affidavit stating with surety that the kid hadn’t taken any drugs. When I pointed out it would take drug testing to know, a state senator insisted that the doctor would know, without testing, EXACTLY what the kid had been using, even if it had been caffeine, (in the previous 12 months? I wouldn’t even trust a Mormon to be caffeine free for 12 months!)
HB 1217 was ridiculous and deserved to be trashed. Stop defending the people who wrote that piece of crap.
ESPECIALLY a Mormon, Anne.
This is funny, yet sad and cannot be made up. Funny; in that it directs everyone to her opponent’s website and sad that these people are in charge of anything let alone state government. Geez come on people.
Let’s see, what maybe, maybe one tranz in 10 years and she’s off on a whirlwind. Is your governor really that stupid?
The Governor’s trans rant is all phony bologna, fascist, scapegoating. Teenage governing.
Here’s one example of where noem is going . . . the impacts of her hate.
“A 16-year old boy tried to kill himself after Greg Abbortt ordered child abuse investigations of all parents of trans youth in Texas. He was admitted to a psychiatric facility – the staff then turned his parents in for child abuse for him being trans . . .”
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/08/transgender-texas-child-abuse-lawsuit/
They do not care about kids; especially vulnerable kids who cannot help the deck nature gave them.
There is going to be a wave of Republicans voting for Jamie Smith in the general.
I sure hope so tara. All I see are Noem signs in Walworth County. Of course, Gosch signs are up by the 100’s and that didn’t go so well.
Tara, I’ll believe it when I see it. People said similar things about a GOP wave for Billie Sutton in 2018, and Sutton still didn’t break 50%.
Anne, don’t gaslight us. 2021 House Bill 1217 was all about banning transgender athletes. The single line about performance-enhancing drugs was in the bill from the beginning when Rep. Rhonda Milstead introduced it. If Noem had been paying attention instead of fundraising around the country, hawking posters at CPAC with Corey Lewandowski, etc., she could have sent her people down to committee to testify against it and lobby to amend that portion out. She sent no one to either House or Senate committee to point out that clause or argue against it. Right after the Senate passed it, Noem said she was excited to sign HB 1217. Then she went looking for excuses to back out and avoid the wrath of the NCAA and business interests.
The response from the conservatariat was not, “Oh, how wise of Kristi not to create problems with that ban on performance-enhancing drugs.” It was near-universal condemnation of her flip-flop cave to the liberal/business agenda. I heard no one on your side of the aisle, Anne, making that excuse for Kristi, then or now. Noem then spun and lied about her bumbling veto, almost as surely as you are spinning and lying now. Don’t try to memory-hole Kristi’s error and rewrite history to make it sound like she’s been paying attention to detail in office. Noem’s veto of the 2021 transgender-athlete ban was a huge political error that she’s been trying to cover up ever since.
I would be a better conservative Governor for you than Kristi Noem, because at least I’d pay attention and get things done right the first time. I also would make darn sure that my domain registrations didn’t lapse and allow my Democratic opponents to hijack my websites and make me look dumb.
It’s been two days since the hijacking, and Governor Noem still hasn’t ordered BIT to delete the link to Smith for Governor from her press release. Hee hee!
magat voters have no expectations of pols so they are never disappointed with them. Ever wonder if someone kicks Noem hard in the belly so they can cinch up her big buckle cowgirl belt extra tight?