What spell has Annette Bosworth cast over Pat Powers? This morning, Greg Belfrage refused to allow the illegitimate U.S. Senate candidate to barge unannounced into his studio and take over an interview with Rep. Steve Hickey. Belfrage says a politician has never before tried to do such a thing on his program. Belfrage actually did Bosworth two favors, offering her air time on tomorrow's program and giving her 24 hours to cool off and think about how she should respond.
Yet Powers finds fault not with Bosworth's impulsive defensiveness but with Belfrage's editorial management of his program:
Aside from blowing a chance for what would have been classic unscripted radio, why wouldn’t Belfrage give her the chance – on the spot – to explain why she’s not in the wrong?
Yes, tomorrow, people will get to hear something sterile, controlled with scripted questions for Dr. Bosworth. It’s just too bad the host has steered it towards something inauthentic [Pat Powers, "Belfrage Refuses Bosworth's Instant Rebuttal to Hickey Commentary," Dakota War College, 2014.04.16].
Here is the instant rebuttal I offered to the Powers commentary, a comment that Powers refused to publish instantly:
Hmm, let’s see: I come to your blog uninvited and ask to offer immediate, unscripted, uncontrolled responses to you and your guests, and you generally refuse me that privilege entirely. How is your editorial control of your blog any different from what you criticize Belfrage for doing this morning in controlling his program?
I'm not sure how a talk show host acts improperly by inviting a guest (Rep. Hickey) to take time out of his day to speak on the radio, granting that guest the time promised to air his views, and telling a person who tries to interrupt and claim some of that time for herself that she can come back the very next day and have time to respond herself.
Suppose Belfrage has Mike Rounds on his program. Suppose Stace Nelson happens to be in town, drives over to the studio, and demands that Belfrage interrupt Rounds and allow Nelson to say a few words. Or suppose I called and demanded Belfrage yield the microphone to let me interrogate Rounds about GOED, EB-5, and Richard Benda. I think Nelson vs. Rounds live and unannounced would be great radio. I think me vs. Rounds would be pretty good, too.
But if I were Mike Rounds, I'd be torqued that I took time out of my busy campaign day to have an interviewer break his promise to me as to how we'd use our time. And if I were Greg Belfrage, I'd say, "This is my radio program, and I'll talk to whom I want when I want according to the promises I make."
Belfrage is at least as free to schedule guests as Powers is to moderate comments. And in devoting an entire segment of his program to Annette Bosworth on short notice (not to mention staving off a likely ill-advised, self-damaging, heat-of-the-moment reaction), Belfrage is showing Bosworth more consideration than Powers shows to citizens who wish to share their opposing views on his proprietary public forum.
just say no, cah.
Maybe you should try to call in tomorrow Cory when Bosworth is on and try to get in. See how she likes it.
I'll have to try and listen. She'll just shoot herself in the foot.
I've got to admit, it would have been great theater - lol
I understand Cory's points, but simply from an entertainment standpoint, if I were a radio talk show host I would have let her speak.
The "buzz" over this segment could have been ratings gold.
Ah, but William, let's think like radio marketers: now Belfrage has lots of people (even liberals; see above) buzzing about tuning in tomorrow. Instead of eating all his ratings cake today, he may get an even bigger piece tomorrow!
Alas, he gets it by giving Bosworth more press. Bret, I am a weak and fallible sinner. I beg forgiveness.
And William, why doesn't Pat engage my entertainment value? I'm pretty funny, right? :-D
Here's what needs to be done:
1.) Get the list of candidates for Precinct Committeeman/Woman and convention delegates for the GOP. http://sdsos.gov/content/html/elections/electvoterpdfs/2014/ElectionCandidates.pdf
2.) Mail each potential delegate to the June GOP convention (you know, the people who will likely essentially pick the next AG and SOS) copies of the petition pages in question, plus some little pics of posts on fb indicating the Boz family is clearly out of state, out of country during the period in question.
3.) Cite relevant SD Statute
4.) Point out that this looks like perjury (false swearing) and ask if they are OK with their AG and SOS simply washing their hands of the matter or with a potential US Senator getting away with apparent bald-faced fraud on official documents.
5.) Include a cover letter which asks delegates not to vote for candidates for AG and SOS unless they pledge to either investigate (Jackley) or to not abdicate (Miller and Krebs), or whoever else might step up for nomination. Include questions delegates may want to ask the AG and SOS candidates when they get those phone calls...
6.) Suggest the delegates consider throwing their hat in the ring for such offices if they feel strongly enough about the issue and are not satisfied with the answers they get.
All of this is relatively cheap and easy to control. The main problem is not Boz on the ballot, but people in power who abuse or use it selectively rather than impartially. These folks will not change unless their power is threatened in a meaningful way.
Cory, I really do enjoy our "banter." I can always tell a winning policy idea, when we're in agreement!
I regret that some folks can't appreciate other folks who get passionate about ideas but don't march in lock step with them.
I know I'm in a bad place, if everyone around me agrees with me ;)
Bob,
I think there's a deficiency in current law and regulatory authority, and I think regardless of partisanship, most people that care about our political system agree with that.
The situation we have in this matter is, as far as I know, unprecedented and difficult to have foreseen.
I have no doubt that bipartisan efforts will address this, in the next session.
Great idea Bob! Who wants to put something like that out individually with their own name? Yep, the politicians have gutted your 1st Amendment rights that our Founding Fathers envisioned while penning under such names as:
Benjamin Franklin: Mrs. Silence Dogood
Alexander Hamilton: Publius
etc.
Rest assured, although it is a minor misdemeanor violation, if you send something out like that about Jackley? He may not investigate Bosworth's felonies, but he will turn out the weight of the state to persecute you for exercising your 1st Amendment rights "..to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Remember Jackley and Daugaard's press conference and how they went after the infamous cutting of National Guard benefits robocall on Republican legislators for failing to put a website address on the call? That is in the same laws as this.
You have to remember, it is not the actual statute they were concerned with, as Dennis Daugaard violated the same statute repeatedly. This is the Republicans using the government to go after their political opponents just as they complain President Obama does.
So be careful!
Bosworth will pull a Mike Rounds tomorrow and not show up because of a "previous commitment".
If she does show up, she's an even bigger fool than I thought.
William, I am shocked! Shocked I say! Shocked that you would dare stand with a Democrat when he is right. Could have swore I read some of you and your wife's posts over at Rounds Propaganda Central (SDWC) excoriating Nelson for "standing with Weiland" on Rounds attempting to buy the senate race with DC and NY special interests monies? According to conservative and libertarian loved Republican Mike Lee (R-Utah) such cronyism, favoritism, and corruption is distinctly unRepublican.
I think you mistake my critique of campaigns as support for a specific one. I know a lot of people involved in politics and, in general, like and respect most of them. Even if I don’t agree with them, I generally respect the fact they’re engaged and involved.
My personal position on issues leans libertarian, or as I call it anti-utopian, as I believe no matter how good a plan looks on paper, once you get humans involved, it gets messy – lol
The fact I’ve been outspoken about, what I believe are missteps by Stace, or anyone else, aren’t said in malice but are just my personal observations. Bluntly stated, I think Stace has damaged himself politically. My personal relationship with Stace has always been good, I think, and I think Stace will agree with that. Politically, not so much, lately.
Check out her latest vid. She has come unhinged. The gov must have taken her marbles away (ht pink floyd), but they let her keep some toys in the attic.
speaking of catholics:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/sex-abuse-catholic-church_n_5085414.html
had boz been allowed on air the sw sd area would have heard a candidate melt down on air. belfrage did her and her fragile mental state a huge favor
daleb, he might have done her a better favor by letting it happen now, rather than later.
I've been in a group where she "went off script" and it was very uncomfortable...
I'm not going to claim I know exactly what is going on with her, or her campaign, but I believe there are problems that will only grow for her, the longer she continues this.
Jim
I must have way too much time on my hands today, I watched her latest video, all 9 minutes of it. Every time she opens her mouth a toad falls out. She seems to be losing it more and more everyday.
She somehow posts her stuff on my Facebook page, but after I started pointing her incompetence, she has blocked my ability to comment.
Curious whether she'll spill the beans about Dan Lederman's jihad against Stace and Rushmore Pac's collusion with the Rounds campaign to run her to siphon resources from more viable candidates.
As per Roger, her video is portrait of someone who is suffering from a serious mental condition. She probably needs therapy. If I were Belfrage, I would decline her interview out of compassion and simple human decency.
Roger, my favorite video of hers is a devotional a few months back where she is doing some 1st person Jesus speak and talks about being "enveloped" in warmth. I think she intended to mean shrouded in warmth, but she read and pronounced "enveloped" as the thing in which we mail letters. Oh that silly annette. What will she do next?
That could be interesting Larry. Especially if she has evidence. You know, that would constitute election fraud or some such. I bet the Feds would make a deal with her.
Jim,
I remember that goofy video and it explained a lot about here back then.
The current video is equally disturbing, aside from blaming the undefined "entrenched power" for her personal financial crisis, she did say something of interest, whether it is true or not, I don't know.
She blamed the government entrenched power for knocking on the doors of Christians that circulated or signed her petitions.
If this true, and who knows with Annette, maybe there is an ongoing investigation of her and her campaign.
Well roger, under the comments on the video, her sister says dci paid her a visit last nite, at which she was rather outraged. Must be a little awkward for the Rushmore PAC.
A history lesson is needed here. In 1984 the initiative petition on radioactive waste disposal (which set up a vote before any high-level or low-level radioactive waste facility could be sited in South Dakota) was contested by Chem-Nuclear. They had an investigator, whose name, I believe, was Powers (from Pierre, SD). He or his employees contacted certain signers and circulators of that petition. Many of those folks felt this contact rose to threats, intimidation and harassment. It was illegal to threaten or intimidate a voter, but it was not illegal to use these tactics on a signer or circulator of a petition.
The next year (1985) we lobbied for a bill to make intimidation of circulators and signers of petitions illegal. Of course, it didn't pass, but such tactics were never used again.
I suspect that any such contacts, if they occurred (this is Bosworth saying this, after all), were done by law enforcement or by investigators hired by one of the Republican candidates.
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/04/us/plan-for-nuclear-dump-divides-dakota-town.html
Mr. Fleming, you know I have counseled insaner people than her down from the brinks of implosion.
"DCI came to my door yesterday and was in front of my house with my husband and children inside for an hour and a half until I came home. This is ridiculous that they are spending our tax dollars harassing my family and me and asking if I support a person that is willing to stand up." Peggy Craig's comment under Dr. Annette Bosworth's Facebook video today.
Let's review: SoS Gant said he did not have the authority to investigate the part of the challenge involving what I'll call "those suspicious signatures" and forwarded the matter to Jackley for review. Jackley wrote back saying, pursuant to the SD Constitution, the Secretary of State has exclusive jurisdiction over the verification of signatures on a nominating petition for United States Senate. However, because the SoS had already rejected the challenge before forwarding the matter of the signatures to the AG (who, by citing case law, proved he does not have jurisdiction over verification of signatures on a nominating petition for the US Senate), stated Gant's rejection of the challenge and recertification of the petition could be reviewed by a court only through a writ of prohibition. A writ of prohibition was filed and then dismissed. Later, the DCI showed up to ask Penny Craig if she signed one of her own sister's nominating petitions? I'm assuming that was the question and not really "Do you support a person that is willing to stand up?"
If such a thing happened, it indicates some sort of investigation is underway, but comes AFTER a couple of men navigated the legal obstacle course as far as possible before being swatted off the platform, much like contestants on the TV show Wipeout.
Here is the $50,000 question. Did Gant and Jackley kick that can far enough down the road for someone else to pick it up? Who? Why?
It can, in no way, be related to the signatures obtained during the trip to the Philippines. They were the Untouchables.
The AG took the position he can't remove her from the ballot. That would fall to the SOS or a court. The AG can still, and has duty, to investigate for criminal violations, and it would appear that may be underway. What will be interesting is the timing any charge, or any statement that no charges will be filed. If Boz and her sister would have kept quiet, we probably wouldn't know dci could presently be looking into things.
Disgusted, You wrote, "Rounds Propaganda Central (SDWC) excoriating Nelson for "standing with Weiland" on Rounds attempting to buy the senate race with DC and NY special interests monies?"
That is almost exactly what Mike Rounds said Saturday at the Republican debate in Pierre.
Mr Beal, You wrote, "The fact I’ve been outspoken about, what I believe are missteps by Stace, or anyone else, aren’t said in malice but are just my personal observations. Bluntly stated, I think Stace has damaged himself politically. My personal relationship with Stace has always been good, I think, and I think Stace will agree with that. Politically, not so much, lately."
I presume that you mean within the Republican caucus. But of course that is probably what makes himself the most electable candidate in the race. The people are fed up with the elected official who has told them all that he or she is going to do for them and then goes to Pierre or DC and does what the party or their wing of the party, tells him or her to do. In South Dakota, South Dakota comes first not the party. In the US Senate, the United States comes first, South Dakota comes second and the party comes third.
Our current Congresswoman serves the Teaparty first. Our former Congresswoman served the Blue Dog Democrats first.
Back to the original question, why Pat Powers keeps defending Dr Boz, the answer has been obvious for quite a while: to make CAH's head explode.
It's been fun to watch.
As right as you have been today, ma'am, yes indeed.
Is this Annette Bosworth, really certifiable?
http://kelo.com/blogs/the-daily-dose/742/my-surprise-visit-from-annette-bosworth/
Lanny, I remember back when Steph was first elected my Democrat customers saying how cute she was and boy were they going to support her. That comment disgusted me, but only until I got to know her. Steph was not only cute, but she was probably one of if not the smartest congressperson SD has laid claim to. She took good care of SD, ambitious enough to know our game as well if not better than us, and gave her time when we came to town.
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She miss stepped and her party miss stepped by not demanding her to face her constituents long before the election. Her party also left her at the polls choosing not to vote rather than voting against her. Maybe just hurting her a little???
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Lanny, you are wrong on both Noem and Herseth. Noem is told how to vote, and does but not with Rand. She doesn't quite deny the TP. We called that a tease in high school. Herseth often voted for SD, also voted with Pelosi, but it was never as consistent a vote as Noem/Boehner.
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The SD GOP ought to start looking out for the interests of it's citizens or we will face the end of the stick the SD Democrats have become comfortable with.
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I'll note while I'm at it, the bragging of money raised by candidates is really irritating me. What is the price of a man/woman, or what is the profit if you gain all that and lose your soul?
Anne, my head remains intact. I also think today's video demonstrates that I have had a better grasp of what Annette Bosworth is about than Pat has from the beginning.
For those of you who haven't found it yet, here's the link to Bosworth's "train wreck" video on Belfrage's blog: http://kelo.com/blogs/the-daily-dose/742/the-bosworth-train-wreck/
http://kelo.com/blogs/the-daily-dose/742/the-bosworth-train-wreck/
Anne Beal is right, Cory. Much of what PP does regarding Dr. Bosworth appears designed to yank your chain. That alone would be enough to prompt PP to do what PP does. But the added incentive for him is that Bosworth is a part of the "Rounds heat shield", and he's always happy to help dilute the anti-Rounds primary vote.
Here's the image I want to leave you with. Anne will appreciate this, I think. Pat Powers giggling like the Pillsbury doughboy every time you get upset about him posting anything non-critical on Bosworth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wowYBN-ztM
R, that seems like an unbelievably petty reason to blog. Do people really do that kind of thing? Do some people think personal poking is the only reason I blog?
PP is an unbelievaby petty man. And Bosworth's mental health is the issue concerning her. The Medical Board did require her to get psychiatric help.
Much earlier in this thread, Steve Sanchez quotes Peggy (Bosworth) Craig. Believe me, DCI wasn't at her house because she signed a petition, they we're there, because the land raffle scam money trail leads right to her. I like Peggy and would warn her to watch her back. From what he has told me, Chad Haber's dislike for his family members goes right to the core. Which is odd, because his mother sister and brother are fantastic people. I am of the opinion that Chad thinks it is normal for people to completely cut off their own siblings, and Annette feels the same. I would not doubt for one second that if it came to "us or them," they would not hesitate for one second to throw poor Peggy under the bus.
Agreed, Dave. I still remember the first we heard about the senate race and Peggy sharing her concerns about it being Chad's wishes, rather than Annette's.
Here is the latest from Belfrage this a.m. Any bets on whether Dr. Boz shows up this morning?
http://kelo.com/blogs/the-daily-dose/742/former-bosworth-consultant-releases-resignation-letter/
Rorschach-that was FUNNY!!
Hey, SDBlue! Someone should remind Belfrage that I scooped that letter last month: https://madvilletimes.com/2014/03/another-bosworth-employee-bails-over-legal-and-moral-concerns/
Baumeister, I recall Haber attacking me (via a fake blog) over my family relations. Your comment explains one more facet of the puzzle.
She is on the radio, and she is blowing it. This is truly the most painful thing I have ever heard, it tops the latest video with shoes. The raffle came up and she started talking about the first raffle as if that is the one in question! She had to be asked if she was in the country 3 times before she answered the question without going off on some other straw argument. I am impressed at how bad this is, really it is awful.
Great job with Belfrage, Cory. Wow, commercial radio sure does suck!
Thanks, Larry! Maybe I should pitch a program to South Dakota Public Radio, a monthly Madville Monday where you could call in and we could shoot the breeze live?