Democratic U.S. House candidate Tim Bjorkman uses his first 30-second ad to feature his refusal to take PAC money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXQXQ_VVg_s I’m so used to hearing…
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The seven statewide Democratic candidates renominated at yesterday’s DemCon 2.0 made speeches after our micro-convention (conventional appendix? whizzi-nom?). Below are those beautiful outbursts of campaign…
I respectfully yield the floor to my fellow Democrat Justin Roemmick, who just released the best campaign District 3 campaign video I’ve seen yet this…
As I reported yesterday, around 70 people gathered in Aberdeen’s Anderson Park (a really good location for protests—remember that for future rallies!) to protest the…
In remarks to an audience of 49 (non-staff, non-press) interested citizens in Aberdeen yesterday, Democratic candidate for U.S. House Tim Bjorkman made clear that rejecting…
Democratic candidate for governor Billie Sutton spoke to about 40 voters at a Chamber-sponsored forum at the Aberdeen Ramkota today. I offer three key observations:
- The Ramkota was better lit than the last several times I’ve gone there to hear candidates speak.
- Sutton is prepared to brand Republican nominee Kristi Noem as a creature of the status quo at a time South Dakota needs change.
- Sutton wants to invest in lots of good programs and services that he’ll have a hard time paying for campaigning as a “taxed enough already” fiscal conservative.
Sutton opened with a mild eight-minute speech, telling his personal story, citing some key Legislative accomplishments in which he’s had a hand (like raising teacher pay out of last place), and listing things we need to fix, like creating a needs-based scholarship, lowering the tuition burden on college students, and reducing the food tax, which he says is throttling upward mobility for the middle class. He also made good use of his current job (the kind of private sector job his opponent hasn’t had for at least eight years) to talk about the people he works with as an investment advisor who are struggling to save money for their kids and their retirement:
Brown County Sheriff Mark Milbrandt is running for reëlection. Aberdeen city policeman and State Representative Dan Kaiser is running to replace him. Milbrandt won the sheriff’s…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs dropped in for the Brown County Republicans Reagan Lunch today. She swiftly weaved through the tables to the front, hearkened…
At today’s crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, Senator Brock Greenfield professed the Socratic wisdom of the South Dakota Legislature: Local lobbyist Julie Johnson had asked “anybody who…
After hearing Aberdeen legislators bow and scrape to local lobbyist Julie Johnson and vow they’ll vote for all the bills seeking to fund crackerbarrel host…