Rick Weiland has been talking about the imbalance of power wrought by big money in Onida and Akaska. Here's a video of Weiland bringing the class-warrior heat (remember: the plutocrats fired first!):
The rich and powerful are always going to have a seat at the table, but they shouldn't own the table [Rick Weiland, campaign speech, posted December 2013].
Income inequality brings political inequality. There's nothing wrong with making more money than the guy next door, but when a tiny class of plutocrats make more money by eliminating jobs and redirecting not just profits but government assistance to their own pockets, they take liberty—not just money, but real liberty—away from millions of working Americans. The plutocrats enjoy leisure and power and influence that the working family juggling three or four jobs cannot exercise.
Rick Weiland appears to get why inequality matters. He's fired up about it. I'm glad to see that's the message he's taking around South Dakota as he runs to keep one South Dakota Senate seat out of the hands of the plutocrats.
Go Rick Go! lol
I'm unimpressed. He was in Mobridge and didn't even alert the newspapers (or at least our newspaper) on the bordering reservations. No press releases, nothing. I'm going to guess he didn't ask Dewey County Dems if they wanted him in Eagle Butte either.
Has he gone to Indian Country anything since the South Dakota Indian Business Alliance policy meeting in December?
Give him another chance Tasi.
My question to you do you think Mike Rounds cares?
Of course I don't think Rounds cares.
For Weiland who printed up snazzy business cards with a Lakota phrase on it, I guess I expected better. I'm hoping it was the failure of his publicity team, but that irks me almost as much, too.
However, I do think Nelson might care.
Tasi...you are right, he should have gotten in touch with the newspapers. I'm hoping that the newspapers also are working to get in touch with him and not being passive. We're totally screwed if we have a passive press.
Local weeklies are overworked and under-staffed. If we are the ones who need to tell politicians to inform the public of their campaigning…well, I don't even know what to say to that.
I agree that plutocrats, crony capitalists, etc. are a huge problem. Does anyone know how Weiland plans to get them out of the Democrat and Republican parties in D.C.?
if we are expecting anything near perfection from our underfunded guy against the entire right wing of america, we will lose. the evident koch/republican national strategy against EVERYTHING any of us holds dear is taking no prisoners. they are laughing in the dark about joe, who has integrity. stand with obama, the tribes, and let's figure out how to beat Noem and Rounds in this lil' red state. lynn g., are you my old childhood bff?
Yeah, I do agree with that. Let my comment stand as a friendly suggestion to the Weiland campaign.
Tasi who knows Weiland's staff could be understaffed at the present time also. I don't know. It wouldn't hurt to contact their campaign to let them know. I agree though as long as your in the area to make maximum impact it's best to get the word out any way you can before arrive there so potential voters can make plans and adjust your schedule. The Republicans and all the money and special interest groups will have far more resources than we will so every vote will count especially in South Dakota where we are the clear underdogs.
Rick won't get any national party money to speak of, so he might as well set aside the national talking points and go straight to the issues that matter to South Dakotans. I mean, who but a handful of ideologues, cares about plutocrats or even knows what a plutocrat is? Rick has to talk about farm policy, energy policy, medicaid expansion, bread and butter issues like that. He has to draw sharp and meaningful contrasts between him and Rounds/Thune/Noem.
I agree John.
I hope Tasi's comment didn't go past, "However, I do think Nelson might care." By the time the EB-5 dust settles, M. M. Rounds may not be the Republican nominee, and we all need to concentrate on the issues that matter to us, when we are talking to candidates. Their agenda is not what should be important to us. We have had enough of our politicians, (both parties) agendas. We need to focus on what is good for us and what is good for the United States of America.
Here is something to read Tasi.
https://www.causes.com/posts/829613
Spoken like a true Democrat Mr. Tristan.
Tasi is right, Rick cannot take the Native vote for granted, he has to give them a reason to vote and a reason to vote for him.
Thanks, Mr. Cornelius . . . I think :-) I just want to see the race turn into a vigorous on-going policy debate about matters that directly affect South Dakotans.
Actually Mr. Tristan, a debate on South Dakota issue would make a great race.
The tireless superficial topics serve no real purpose and usually don't serve South Dakotans at all.
A debate is great but the term "South Dakota values" must be outlawed. So overused and what does it really mean?
South Dakota Values (noun): A term frequently used in political and social discussions to indicate that the speaker using the term is honest, morally upright, independant minded, and a supporter of all that is right and holy wheras those holding political or social opinions opposed to the speaker's positions are dishonest, immoral, close minded, and followers of Hitler, Satan, and Charles Manson.
Kal Lis that is the best definition I've ever heard,
Ditto, Nemec.
Pleased to say the Weiland campaign is paying attention. Had a message waiting for me this morning explaining that the newspaper just wasn't on their press list. That has been remedied. Thanks Cory (and Toby). Hope you don't mind me newspaper crashing the blog.
We need a senator who understands what Glass Steagall is, how important it is, and is not afraid to fight for it-like Elizabeth Warren. Eight Congressmen added their names as sponsors to HR 3711, the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act of 2103, yesterday, bringing the total signers to 10. HR 3711 is the companion bill to the Senate 21st Century Glass-Steagall bill, S. 1282, which was introduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Angus King (I-Me), John McCain (R-Ariz), and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) in July of last year.
Sen. Warren's bill, which has become a major focal point of
discussion and attack by Wall Street over the past six months, also has a total of 10 sponsors.
Congressmen John Tierney (D-Mass) and Walter Jones (R-NC), are both signers on HR 129, the Return to Prudent Banking Act, introduced by Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) in early 2013. Kaptur's bill, which also has a companion bill in the Senate (S. 954, sponsored by Sen. Tom Harkin), currently has a total of 78 cosponsors, including both Tierney and Jones. Weiland needs to join the fight and be a real leader for Glass Steagall now.
One has to admire Rep Walter Jones, (R-NC). You may remember him as "french-fry Jones" who during the run up to the Iraq war wanted to change the name of french fries in the House cafeteria to Freedom Fries, primarily because the French were not supporting us in going to war with Iraq. He was one of the first to change his mind and say that we needed to end that war and get out. Unlike our own US Senator Johnson who was the minority committee chair on the banking committee when Glass Steagall was overturned and who voted for that overturn and to this day is unwilling to admit that he was wrong and support the new bill. Doggone I sure wish I had my retirement money back and that so many millions of seniors hadn't been hurt and that so many millions of folks hadn't lost their jobs and homes.
Johnson said in a statement. "We have learned at those hearings that most economists say a return to Glass-Steagall would not address today's challenges."
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Are you admitting Sen Johnson head of the Senate Banking Committee doesn't understand Glass Steagall? That somehow Rick Wyland might, Ron?
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I'd suggest any senator we send to DC to raise that kind of hell would end up at a similar depth to Dick Benda.
"We have learned at those hearings that most economists say a return to Glass-Steagall would not address today's challenges."
Yeah, and I used to watch CNBC and I remember those economists cheering as the DOW hit 7, 8, 9 and ten thousand and so on and the NASDAQ going all the way to 5 thousand and that was back in 2000. It is just now back to over 4 thousand. Economists do not forcast the future very well, they only cheer things on. Even Fed Chairman Greenspan would never admit any mistakes until after he left the office, and as far as his overnight lending before the bank collapse and then his Quantitative Easing after in order to keep the interest rates low, I don't think Senator Johnson has much credibility when it comes to talking about finances or bragging about the advice from economists.
While we might need Glass Steagall brought back, we need a senator who will work with President Obama. You won't get that with any of the Republicans.
That takes priority over Glass Steagall.
That should be,
and as far as Ben Bernanke and his overnight lending before the bank collapse and then his Quantitative Easing after in order to keep the interest rates low, I don't think Senator Johnson has much credibility when it comes to talking about finances or bragging about the advice from economists.
Owen, both parties were part and parcel to G/S repeal in the 90's. Don't give me the party BS.
Never said they weren't Les. I'm just stating that we need a Senator that'll work for the benefit of al the people, not just the few
Not to be disagreeable Owen, but working with the President is not the most important thing. How did that work with President Bush and going to war and cutting taxes? Without Glass Steagall, and it may already be too late to right this sinking ship, the United States of America economy, and possibly by default, that of the world is in big trouble. THe piper is going to be paid at some time for the excesses caused by the repeal of Glass Steagall. The collapse of 2008 was just the first step and the rest of the steps have only been delayed by the Quantatative Easing of which I spoke in an earlier post. President Obama has had plenty of cooperation, albeit on a lot of the wrong issues like the go ahead for NATO to attack Libya, our collusion with al Qaeda in Syria and our nearly attacking them over the false flag chemical weapons attack that occurred in Syria. And that is just on the foreign front. That does not include the failure to repeal the Bush tax cuts as he promised, and his colluding with those on the right to cut FICA taxes by 2 percentage points or 27% at a time when the right is trying to get him to cut social security as the first step in getting rid of it altogether.
It's ok to be disagreeable Lanny. That is what makes our country.
But you kind of make my arguement. On the majority of what you brought up you are saying Obama has gone with the right. If I'm wrong I apologize.
What will happen if we elect one of the Republicans running for Senate? Possibly Social Security going away or being privatized. Bush tax cuts going away? I don't think so.
Weiland won't be a rubber stamp for the President. Will he agree with Obama the majority of the time? Sure. But he'll stand up and disagree with the President when he feels he should.
BAH. I'm as disagreeable as they come Mr. Reitzel but even I can't agree that this young Weiland fellow really has a clue. Change she is a comin'
I know you're disagreeable grudznick and please call me Owen. But Weiland does have a clue.
Mabe you should meet with him and talk to him.
I would enjoy that, Owen. I have not yet had the opportunity but if I do I know that Mr. Weiland would enjoy speaking with me.
My, my, my grudz, aren't we full of ourselves. I'm not sure anyone on this board would even enjoy speaking with you.
Just kidding.
I am hard to offend, Mr. Stricherz. I get worse at breakfast every week from my good friends.
I don't even like talking to waitresses much because it is idle chit chat that gets in the way of the eating, which is why they learn my order and bring me the gravy taters with sausages.
Tasi, if this blog can serve to help candidates correct their errors and connect with constituents, I'm thrilled. Crash away! (Now how much will it cost me to get a mention of the Madville Times into the West River Eagle? :-) )
Remind Weiland that if he visits with grudz, he has to wear a tinfoil hat.
Heck grudz, I thought that is what good friends are for, to keep us humble.
In the 2013 state senate every Republican senator voted for the Glass Steagall resolution except Rounds. Senator Johnson is at odds with many Democrat National Legislators on Glass Steagall. Obama and Johnson have both sold out to Wall Street. They do represent the Democrat tradition of FDR or JFK.
Banks In Overdrive to Stop Glass-Steagall, or Any Kind of Regulation. So desperately bankrupt is the trans-Atlantic banking system, that they not only foam at the mouth at the mere mention of Glass-Steagall—they don't even want regulators peeking under the sheets at all to see what they are up to.
For example, the Federal Reserve is considering if and how to further regulate banks' trading and speculating on physical commodities, and on Tuesday issued 24 questions on the subject, which they are asking bankers and others to comment on. Bloomberg quotes a partner at Federal Financial Analytics, a DC research firm, saying that "the open-ended tone of this [Fed] release, combined with the lack of specifics on any possible capital charges, means it's clear sailing for current physical-commodity operations" by the banks.
Likewise. the $1.1 trillion omnibus appropriations bill that is expected to be approved by Congress this week, includes a key measure which, according to an account in the London Guardian, "reined in funding for Wall Street regulators." The Guardian reports that "Wall Street lobbyists have been pressing Congress to curb the growing power of regulators like the SEC in the wake of the financial crisis," and quotes the president of the NGO Better Markets saying: "The only reason not to fully fund the CFTC and the SEC is to protect Wall Street profits, bonuses and reckless trading."
Another Hearing, Warren Scores Another Point for Glass-Steagall Dodd-Frank Trashed in Senate Hearing; Warren says too-big-to-fail Remains dangerous.
A panel of five economists questioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren at a Jan. 9 Senate Banking Committee hearing, were unanimous in declaring that neither the Volcker Rule nor the entire Dodd-Frank Act has removed the "too-big-to-fail" danger of the Wall Street banks which brought down the economy in 2007-08. Warren responded to the panel's judgments by stating that it is time for Congress to take additional action; she is one of the prime sponsors of Senate legislation to restore "a 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act" and break these Wall Street banks up.
The hearing, in Sen. Sherrod Brown's subcommittee of the Banking Committee, was called to receive a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on how much the big banks were bailed out in the crash, whether they are still subsidized, and whether the Dodd-Frank Act had ended the threat of a new crash and massive bailout. GAO economist Lawrence L. Evans summarized his conclusion,
"Dodd-Frank aims to restrict future government support, but implementation is incomplete and effectiveness remains uncertain."
GAO's criticism was directed at "Title II" of the Dodd-Frank Act, the orderly liquidation or so-called "bank bail-in" scheme.
Well-known economists Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago, Simon Johnson of MIT, Alan Meltzer of Harvard and Harvey Rosenbaum of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank and now Southern Methodist University, all debunked Title II in the course of testimony and questioning.
But Warren brought the hearing to a point by asking all the witnesses, first,
"Will the Volcker Rule [another part of Dodd-Frank—ed.], if vigorously enforced, end 'too big to fail'?"
All answered "No", with Rosenbaum adding, "Hell, no."
Warren then asked whether all the regulations of Dodd-Frank, if completed and vigorously enforced, would end the too-big-to-fail danger. Again all responded "No", with Meltzer and Rosenbaum emphasizing that only action by the legislature, not relying on myriad rules and on regulators, could solve the urgent problem.
Having teed the ball up, Warren then drove it down the fairway, saying that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had agreed at an mid-2013 Banking Committee hearing that if "too big to fail" Wall Street was not reined in by the start of 2014, a different attack was needed; and concluding that it is now time for Congress to act again. The reference to her Glass-Steagall restoration legislation was clear, and is the next obvious subject for a hearing in Senator Brown's subcommittee.
Video of Warren's exchange with the witnesses and concluding remarks can be seen on Senator Warren's YouTube page.
It should be they do not represent the Democrat tradition of FDR or JFK. Good Night.
Good grief, Ron: instead of cutting and pasting entire articles, why not just provide the hyperlink? It's save space for those of us who don't want the comment section cluttered with Lyndon Larouche's tired and distracting propaganda.
http://larouchepac.com/node/29510
http://larouchepac.com/node/29460
And what Rounds are you talking about in the 2013 Legislative session? SCR 6 dealt with Glass-Steagall (another waste of Legislative time that's better spent dealing with practical state-level problem-solving). The Senate vote was 19–16. What's your point?
Meanwhile, Weiland can make the plutocracy debate relevant to South Dakota. He can talk about the point Wayne raised in another thread, and that Mr. Tsitrian expanded on in a separate blog post: the 1% are rigging the system to accrue most of the economic growth and not letting that wealth spread out to the working majority through higher wages. He can tie that to the federal tax code that showers favors on the rich that they don't need. He can tie that to bailouts for big banks and rich farmers. He could advocate lower caps on farm subsidies and crop insurance assistance, higher limits on income taxable by Social Security, and (as he is doing!) limits on campaign spending by rich outside groups (Citizens United). Plutocracy may too high-falutin' a word, but whatever terminology he uses, Weiland spends his time well educating voters as to the ways that the Big Money interests rig the system against the rest of us. (And he should make sure he takes time to put those statements in the West River Eagle!)
Ron's points are not all wrong whether Lourushish or not. There is an oligarchy in banking, working to destroy the mighty US dollar. When the hundreds of trillions booked in derivs and continued easing come home to roost Cory, your monthly paycheck may buy groceries.
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It is liberals and conservatives to blame as they are willingly being used in the game.
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Wyland has no clue he needs West River to win or they would know the geography of our state. That man couldn't win a district senate seat.
South Dakota became the first state in the nation to pass a resolution urging the U.S. Congress to reinstate Glass-Steagall. SCR 6 passed the State Senate on February 26,2013 by a vote of 19 to 16, and passed the S.D. House of Representatives by a decisive vote of 67 to 2. Mike Rounds brother Tim was the only Republican in the Housr to vote against it. I thought quite ironic, because Mike named his PAC after Peter Norbeck. I think Norbeck done as much for mankind as anyone in the last century. As the Chairman of theSenate Banking Commission he had the guts to take on Wall Street and hired Ferdinan Pecora to investagate and jail the anti American Tory crooks. This led to Glass Steagall. Mike, like Tim Johnson, does'nt have the guts to do what they both know needs to be done for the general welfare of the nation.
Rick Weiland , Stace Nelson and Larry Rohden suporte Glass Steagall.
The Alantic Alliance is bankrupt and we need to build the Pacific Alliance. The only way to save this Nation and Europe from financial collapse. Europe is controlled by the principles of the Anglo-Dutch Empire of protecting their security. stored in worthless pieces of financial paper with austerity. Asia is using the American System of credit to uplift the creativity of its people through research and development to build a secure future. The enemies of this country, both inside and out, are promoting war as a way to stop this Pacific Alliance and American System. The Oligarchy will destroy all of us before they give up their control. They must be defeated soon. Obama must go and Glass Steagall be reinstated now. Men used the pinciples of the American System to build the greatest nation on earth.
yikes.
yaa?
If the American System and Glass Steagall were still the law of the land we never would have been involved with the international, national and local fraud and corruption of GOED. There would have been no need to bribe foreigners for loans. Round's policy of productive development for the state were good, but financial policies stunt. Not totally his fault. But unless he realize the mistakes, he's not the senator we need.
If SCOTUS hadn't appointed W president Jeb Bush would not be withdrawing from the 2016 race.
What are the alternatives to Obama Ron? There are things I might disagree with the President but I look at the big picture and not one issue. The alternative to Obama, unless its Hillary, is bad on many different fronts.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that having a Democrat as US Senator President Obama and a future President Clinton can fill vacancies on the federal bench without obstructionism by the earth hater party.
The alternatives to Obama are none Owen. Who but a candidate shackled to the money can win? Until the American voters elect a dark horse and break this system, it remains the same. You and I fighting where they want us to fight while they play in the dark.
If it hadn't been for Obama, Glass Steagall would already be reinstated. The ideal situation would be impeach Obama now or the Democrats ask him to resign, and Biden is a decent statesman. Biden as president would totally change the political environment. Put the country back on track for the next election. The office of the President, the Congress and the Court are failing in the recent years. In our system of checks and balances based on what our forefather called Natural Law, the people must now take it on themselves to pressure the federal government to move in the proper direction with a common goal of saving the American System.
The Green movement is the fascist party today. Move forward with research and productive development. Mining helium 3 on the moon for future fusion energy. Compare the dollar investment on the space program versus the investment in Wall Street and any body with a brain can tell which is most beneficial. Got to go talk to my cows now.
Here's the Green Party's Platform. Sounds pretty good to me Ron.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Green_Party.htm#Gun_Control
Owen: best not to confuse RW's dog whistling about 'the green movement' with the Green Party.
Hmm you might be right Larry.
yup. different thing. even though the Green Movement didn't look terrible
It has been my mission, Owen, after crushing the GOP and spreading its entrails to the crows, to see the Green Party and Democratic Party as America's political parties.
My point to Ron is that we have to be thinking of more than a one issue. Ron doesn't like Obama whcih is fine but impeach? Don't think so. The alternative to Obama is what? Tea Party? Don't think so
The alternative to Obama is a Democrat party in the tradition of FDR and JFK , not Jefferson-Burr, Jackson and Harry S Truman. The hero of the Tea Party is Jackson. Washington, Monroe, JQA, Lincoln and McKinley were more in tune with policies of FDR and JFK. The problem with the Democrat Party, its being taken over by the green movement. It should be call the brown movement because of its opposition to major water development like Eisenhower and JFK's NAWAPA. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=NAWAPA+YOUTUBE&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=441BAFEC8931BB1A6F9B441BAFEC8931BB1A6F9B
Strom Thurmond: call your wizard home.
Scotty needs to beam this Ron W. guy up.
Impeach President Obama over Glass Steagall?
Washington, Lincoln tea baggers?
I've read a lot of dumb things today, but Ron is a clean sweep with his presumptions and historical distortions.
Moon mining and fusion research will be on my platform. And settling Mars. Darn good ideas.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
There is no alternative to President Obama until 2016
Roger, you can stick with popular opinion and go down with the Titanic or get in the life boat with me, theirs still plenty of room.
All right, so let's see what we agree on under this headline:
(1) Plutocracy is bad and we should pick a Senator who will fight it.
(2) Mike Rounds will support, not fight, plutocracy.
Consensus so far?
If so, then let's talk about how well the other candidates would fight plutocracy, with my suggested chances of success in challenging Big Money in the Senate:
Rick Weiland: He's got some money himself, though his public-sector work may incline him away from Big Money. And he's saying the right things, trying to lead the conversation. 70%?
Larry Pressler: He's been talking up his own anti-Big Money cred, saying he passed on lobbying to work as a low-paid contract prof. He said on Viewpoint University the other day that he and wife Harriet will probably have to dip into their retirement funds to pay for the campaign. He's campaigning against the military-industrial complex in calling for bringing our troops home... but he still sees economic benefit to investing in domestic bases. 70%?
Stace Nelson: the man has no money. He hates crony capitalism. If he got the nomination, the plutocrats would give up on the GOP in this race and try to buy Weiland or Pressler. But if Nelson wins, does he have the political skills to win friends and wage war against the Big Money lobbyists who will be buying all the other Senators? 60%?
Larry Rhoden: lacks the fire and independence for this fight; he'll be too busy fighting those evil greenies Betty Olson is fretting about. Might occasionally stumble on an issue where standing for cowboys coincides with standing against Wall Street plutocrats. 20%
Jason Ravnsborg: pluto-what? He's a lawyer. 0%
Annette Bosworth: She will heel to whoever pays her bills. She is the perfect plant for plutocrats who want to pull the strings unseen backstage. –100%.
Mr. Weiczorek is an experience politician and his ideas have been vetted over many years. But he was insaner than Sibby's stepsister the last time I met him.
Well, look who's talking, Sibby's long lost twin brother. How are you?
Ron,
You may think America is a sinking ship, I don't. We have as a nation survived so many things because we have a strong Democracy and a Constitution to defend us. Regardless of your political indoctrination, never lose sight of that.
You may think a single President can destroy this country, history proves you wrong. We have had some very bad and destructive Presidents and we survive them all.
It is said that money is power, if you have the money you have to power. The greatest threat to our democracy is not communism, socialism, or even terrorism, it is plutocracy. When we relinquish our power to money and those that have it, it is a bleak future.
As I write this, the gap between the wealthy, middle class and poor continues to grow. That 1% we hear economist talk about are the people that control the governments purse strings. They do it because the can, they do it because they can afford lobbyist to protect themselves from having to pay taxes, they do it to change laws to make their business interest more profitable.
In South Dakota the plutocracy exist in the Republican dominated state legislature and governors office, whose idea of capitalism is throwing obscene amounts of money at one failed GOED/EB-5 program after another.
Employees are at the mercy of the Governor's Office of Economic Development, workers that changed their lives because a new industry was coming to town, only to find that industry pissed away $60 million and is now bankrupt.
What kind of America do you see or want Ron?
Hey, I asked a question. Which Senate candidate offers the surest bulwark against plutocracy?
Well Cory, with me the jury is still out. THe only thing I would say, is that every one who is registered Democrat or Independent needs to change their registration to Republican by May, so that they can at least have a voice in the best Republican being there are 5 of them running. And although it is tempting to do it to make it better for the lone Democrat or the Independent to win in the General, I would say it is more important to do it to assure ourselves that we also have the best possible Republican in the general in November.
Come the general, there is no advantage to being registered D or I, that you won't get by your vote.
Come on Lanny, do you think average voters will change their voter registration and than change back to their party for the sake of finding a suitable Republican candidate?
It is difficult enough to get people to register to vote and actually vote on election day.
Personally, I'm hoping that Rounds wins the primary and between the primary and general election GOED/EB-5 will explode.
Vote Mike Rounds!
Roger, I won't be changing back, but will still be able to vote in the General, for whomever I think is the best candidate. There is no use to be registered D or I in SD because there is seldom an election that has two Dems running in a primary anyway.
What has that Democrat registration gotten any South Dakotan? Must be a badge of twisted logic. I'm trying to remember an important Dem primary. Come to think of it, any Dem primary.
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I wouldn't count on EB5 Roger.
We had a couple in Dist 15, years ago, the one for Governor when Jack Billion ran, but other than that, I agree and that is why I am an R. I voted for Chris Nelson and Dave Knutson last primary, but alas not enough of us cared to keep the ones we got out of office.
Cory is right, it will take a lot of candidates talking about EB-5 to get the public to pay any attention to it as an issue. Unfortunately, EB-5 is just part of the problem. All of the attempts at economic development from the Republican party have cost our State a ton of money and almost all of it has been wasted.
One other thing Roger, can you imagine the pandering and disarray that would come about in the Republican primary politicking if all of a sudden thousands of Democrats switched parties?
Come on Lanny, you're disappointing me. What would be a legitimate reason for a Democrat to switch parties for the primary?
"thousands of Democrats switched parties" you probably couldn't get a handful that thought they could actually influence the Republican primary.
Why would candidates pander to the "new Republicans" knowing they would switch back to Democrats after the primary?
Les, why wouldn't you count on EB-5 as not being a political issue when it already is? The only handicap right now is that the Republicans have been successful in an ongoing cover up and keeping it as a lite weight issue by blaming Benda.
Don't forget Les, there is still a federal grand jury, a possible state grand jury, federal investigations, and audit under review.
I don't expect the state to expose anymore than Benda double dipping and possibly pocketing a half million dollars for paying himself before he did any work.
The feds are another problem, it would be nearly impossible for the National Republican Party or the state Republican Party to control any investigation.
Cory is right, Democrats need to keep talking up GOED/EB-5 and demand accountability of that $60 million.
For a Democrat to need felony charges on opponents to win, suggests the incompetence of your candidates.
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Your words also suggest the incompetence of a Democrat party on the party switch matter, Roger.
For the state and national Republican Party to support a candidate with the mere threat of a felony suggests the incompetence of not only the party, but the candidate.
Explain to me how realistic it is for voters to continually switch parties in order to influence an election. That doesn't sound competent to me on any level.
If you choose to bury your head in the sand on the GOED/EB-5 scandal Les, feel free.
Scandals do not necessarily result in convictions and felonies, but the appearance that a politician profited financially or in power or engaged in a cover up is great political fodder.
Imagine a world where Bill Janklow did not commit a crime and leave the US House: Governor Stephanie Herseth Sandlin would be announcing the success of her ObamaCare initiative and Mike Rounds would be selling insurance.
Kristi Noem would be struggling to retain her subsidies as another ag producer polluting the Big Sioux watershed.
You are correct Larry, imagine that and imagine a small scale slaughter house in Aberdeen that is doing what its inventor envisioned with no foreign involvement. No strange death incidents in a corn field. Marty Jackley just another small time ambulance chaser from Sturgis....Yes, imagine all of that...
Back to the beginning. Let us dream of candidates to the U.S. house and senate with a real policy, fighting tooth and nail to get it done. Not controlled by the big money influences Wall Street has over what superficial issue a Democrat or Republican is allowed to campaign on. Social issues do nothing on their own to restore the rule of law and the Constitution, or to create meaningful jobs that increase the standard of living in real ways. They must fight for the full funding of all of NASA: human space exploration, the defense of Earth from asteroids and extreme space weather, new unmanned rovers and satellites, new telescopes, and industrialization of nearby space and the Moon; this would create at least five million jobs, and restore our leadership in science and engineering. They must fight to bring fresh water and nuclear desalination systems to our farmers, by building Kenndy's North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), more than doubling our fresh water in the southwest and stopping the depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer; this would create over seven million jobs, and save our farming and ranching industry. Obama's gross violations of the Constitution, continuing the dictatorship that Bush and Cheney started: extrajudicial drone killing and NDAA detainment, extending the Patriot Act's centralization of executive power, rationing of health care and tossing people off their insurance, massive global warrantless wiretapping, and engaging in aggressive regime change without consent of Congress in Libya must be stop. they must commit to protect the savings and pensions of hard working Americans from Wall Street's bailouts and bail-ins, by fighting to force the Congress and Senate to introduce identical legislation to restore the Glass-Steagall separations of commercial and investment banking. fight to inspire the population by reintroducing them to a Classical education - Classical art and culture, the beauty of true human creativity, bel canto singing, drama, and to help people understand that we are not merely human cattle to be ruled over by our government or a "free market" like beasts, but we are made in the living image of our Creator, and we are born for creating that which is better. We need real leadership, living in the world of principles and ideas, dreaming of the future and taking us there, not for persoal gain but the common goods of our posterity.Building the future will give us a present.
ron,
Do you know what a sentence and paragraph are?
You aren't using some of that Colorado legal mary jane are you?
Lighten up Mr Cornelius. If half of our citizens cared half as much about our democracy as Ron does, we could get our country back. I am sure that sometimes I think Ron is a little off the wall as well, but most people at some time or another think I am off the wall. I know that you care, so encourage others who care, to keep caring and not give up. That is what the right wants, for us to give up.
Sorry Lanny,
I'm not noted for lightening up, I would further assert that the right would like for us lighten, that would an effective strategy for them, wouldn't it?
Could you make any sense of ron's post?
The right as with the left DC partay folks want to keep the population confused and in fear.
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Looking outside of the party box, Ron probably does look like a stoner to those locked onto the nipple.
Roger is right about paragraphs, break it up Ron. No one reads a blog for a blob of words.
Zinda, his face black, his eyes red. Kira at Bashi. Temba at rest.
Who's on'da weed?
Darmok spelled backwards.
Mirab, with sails unfurled.
You know, Ron offers an interesting mix of policies and projects, some of them reasonable, some not.
As I mentioned, I'm all about getting serious about colonizing space as the best way to ensure the survival of humanity. Settling space is probably more ambitious than NAWAPA, but I'm disinclined to disrupt the entire Canadian ecosystem by using nuclear bombs to divert water from the Yukon the the southern Rockies. (The canal from Alberta to Lake Superior could be fun for canoeing.)
I think Ron and I could work together on repealing the Patriot Act, limiting drone attacks and foreign interventions, and fighting other manifestations of the closest thing to tyranny America offers.
I like classical education and putting people above economics.
Now, which Senate candidate can best speak to the values embodied in those principles? I say you have three realistic choices: Rick Weiland, Stace Nelson, and Larry Pressler. Which of those men has the leadership to make progress on these issues?
Cory, while I think you have offered the three best choices, it is too far in advance of November to make my decision as to which I would choose.
After a debate with Stace here on Madville, I have narrowed it down to Rick or Larry.
Mr. Cornelius, you whupped Mr. Nelson with his own words last night. He could not debate with you.
Thanks grudz,
Stace does not belong in the U.S. Senate
No rush, Lanny. And hey, we could still have a surprise entrant!
Cory,
Are you suggesting that Rounds will drop out as some would like and that since Powers isn't supporting Stace, some super hero Republican will have to jump in and save the party?
I don't think Rounds will drop out; I'm simply acknowledging that there's still plenty of time for someone to jump in. Remember: Noem didn't announce for House in 2010 until late February.
Cory,
You're probably right about Rounds, although I expect the timing and release of the federal investigations and hopefully indictments regarding GOED and Northern Beef Packers could be a factor.
My gut is telling me that there will be major shake up in the Republican Party as the primary and general election get closer
Roger,
I hope your gut is speaking clearly and telling the truth.