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No Dress Code for Talking with Varilek… or for Giving Him Money

Our Congresswoman Kristi Noem flies to California Thursday for more high-class hobnobbing with wealthy elites, as seems to be her wont in February. (Maybe she's just fighting seasonal affective disorder; we all need our Vitamin D!)

One of the men seeking to replace her, Matt Varilek, finds Noem's California tripping worth mentioning:

Kristi Noem is in the midst of a week-long recess from Congress. This would be a great time to travel South Dakota, listen to constituent concerns, and learn about ways to better represent working families in Washington.

But she has different priorities. She's headed back to sunny California to hear the concerns of her campaign contributors. And by the way, she's meeting those California donors in a place with a "no denim" dress code.

Even though she'll be far from South Dakota, you can still communicate with Kristi. You can help us send her a message that she should be focused on serving South Dakotans, not hob-nobbing with Californians.

Please send a message by making a contribution of $5 or more to help send Matt to Washington.

Everyday, South Dakotans are hard at work to make this an even better place to live, work, and raise a family. It's time we have a representative in Washington that does the same [David Benson, campaign manager, Matt for SD, e-mail, 2012.02.21].

Campaign manager Benson also mentions that the Lincoln Club blurb on the event says, "Noem was elected in the 2010 'Tea Party' takeover of the House." It seems everybody thinks Kristi Noem is a Tea Party member except for real Tea Partiers and Kristi herself. I wonder which attack will get more mileage for Noem's Dem challengers: painting her as the wingnut radical Ed Randazzo wishes she'd be, or recognizing her as the Establishment California club-hopper she's morphed into?

13 Comments

  1. Charlie Johnson 2012.02.21

    Just wondering if there is crop insurance convention in California at the same time? Maybe there needs to be some research work done for her college internship work?

  2. Ed Randazzo 2012.02.21

    If advocating a sane fiscal and monetary policy, a reduction of the deficit by reducing spending, a smaller less obtrusive, more efficient government, a return to constitutionally based government, a sane tax code and the protection of our inalienable rights (all of them) causes you to think me a "wingnut radical," then so be it. I choose to be a person that expects only the opportunity to succeed not the license to suckle at the teat of others while protesting at the lack of succor available. I detest those that tear at the fabric of this nation when they pervert the truth that all men were created equal into the fabrication that all men should have equal wealth. The next time you think it necessary to resort to name-calling, ask yourself how that serves to create the environment for the solution of an issue. If it only serves to inflate your ego or your linguistic acumen, whisper a prayer instead, either for your intended target or for our nation. All of us will be better for it.

  3. caheidelberger Post author | 2012.02.21

    So Ed, did you get Kristi a copy of that Tea Party caucus mission statement she said she needed so she could know what the Tea Party stands for? Has she gotten back to you on joining the Caucus yet?

  4. Stan Gibilisco 2012.02.21

    "Maybe she’s just fighting seasonal affective disorder; we all need our Vitamin D!"

    I get my vitamin D from sardines.

  5. caheidelberger Post author | 2012.02.21

    Sardines? That's strong medicine.

  6. Robert J. Cordts 2012.02.22

    Representative Noem is coming to Madison High School on 2 March. I don't think she will be asking for donations from our juniors and seniors. It should be an interesting morning.

  7. Bill Fleming 2012.02.22

    Ed, don't worry, brother. None of us want to suckle your teats... except maybe Larry.

    (Why do these right-wingnuts always talk like that? ...I mean with the "teats" this and the "pervert" that... don't they get how obiously they're projecting their repressed sexual fantasies? After a while, it gets embarassing.)

  8. Robert J. Cordts 2012.02.22

    One teacher might. I have fond memories of the day Senator James Abdnor came to MHS to Mr. Reitzel's class. MHS senior Bob Lange began a dialogue with the senator and it turned interesting fast.

  9. larry kurtz 2012.02.22

    It will be a frigid day on Uranus before ip does any earth hater-teat suckling, Mr. Fleming.

  10. Bill Fleming 2012.02.22

    Glad to hear it, Larry. Good man.

  11. Bill Fleming 2012.02.22

    ...and never mind about Uranus. I'm not interested ;^)

  12. D.E. Bishop 2012.02.22

    "(Why do these right-wingnuts always talk like that? …I mean with the “teats” this and the “pervert” that… don’t they get how obiously they’re projecting their repressed sexual fantasies? After a while, it gets embarassing.)"

    Hahahahaahaha! So true.

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