Bob Mercer reports that legislators, like the young'uns, are leaving their homework until the last minute.
Then appropriators left a long list of agencies hanging Thursday because of a scheduling quirk that senators needed to be at their desks by mid-morning to start casting votes.
The panel isn't scheduled to official return to work until Tuesday, facing an agenda that has 16 big areas of spending, including state government’s largest departments such as social services, education, corrections, the state universities and the court system.
To make the analogy more cringeworthy, Mercer reports that Governor Noem is using candy as a thank you for votes. The treats apparently also served as a message to let everyone know who is and is not her friend.
14 senators who voted against industrial hemp last week found on their desks Thursday boxes of Dots candy and thank-you notes from Noem for sticking with her.
The small treats strengthened the feeling among legislators and lobbyists that the governor indeed might veto the hemp bill, especially after two Senate votes went 21-14 in a chamber where a veto override requires at least 24.
Democrats then decided to squander their chance to look like adults by resorting to juvenile behavior of their own. Dakota Free Press reports that Ann Tornberg, the current party chair, and Larry Lucas her running mate as vice-chair candidate offered to buy voting delegates lunch when the South Dakota Democratic Party Executive Board and State Central Committee Members meet later this month. Commenters on the DFP post claim that the email did not go out to all members of the party's Central Committee. They implied that those who were not voting for Tornberg did not get the email invitation. Like the the young'uns, the Democrats' apparently have a tribal lunch room.
The farm economy is hurting; nursing homes are closing, and schools are not being fully funded. Meanwhile, leaders in government and members of the loyal opposition are passing notes asking "Will you be my friend? Circle yes or no."
4 comments:
Is it just me or does South Dakota seem to be getting even worse and going backwards? One person stated the new SDGOP Governor has taken their spot to takeover the decline of the state while a few are on the gravy train. When will the citizens finally say enough is enough? Will there ever be political change? A functioning opposition party? Is that even possible?
How frustrating it must be for principled conservatives to have establishment Republicans in the South Dakota legislature encouraging intellectual diversity on campus while ridiculing and stifling it in the statehouse. Little of their agenda is being passed in the #sdleg so principled conservatives in South Dakota really have nothing to lose by leaving the SDGOP for a viable third party. West River could become an ideological battleground and Shad Olson could be a factor in 2020. The Constitution Party of South Dakota is meeting in May. Expect the Zionist chair of SDGOP to start suing people to see if he can slow the flight of principled conservatives to the CP.
I'll say it again: since the South Dakota Democratic Party is on life support the only way to restore democracy in my home state is for principled conservatives to leave the corrupted SDGOP and form a viable third party.
Lar principled progressives should start a new party too. It is always good to have competition for gravy & taters issues. If one fails we have another.
Please don't insult the junior high council.
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