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Howie Claims GOP Wants to Buy Him Off, Rounds One More EB-5 Lie from Implosion

SD Senate race as Corn Palace 2014
Corn Palace as political effigy—imagine the possibilities....

South Dakota's U.S. Senate race has turned into the Corn Palace: so weird, so unlikely, folks from out of state just have to come and look.

Today, that funny-looking corn dome off to the right, Gordon Howie, gets some national press. The apocalypse is nigh.

Bloomberg's David Weigel sat down for coffee with the Independent/Republican rebel in the U.S. Senate race and got this juicy morsel: Howie claims Republicans may be offering him carrots to get out of the race:

"There are high level GOP operatives, in and out of the state, who have tried to negotiate me out of this race," Howie told me. "They approached me as recently as last week."

He would not name the operatives; he would only rephrase what they asked him. "There were no hard offers," he said. "The question was more of a what-if: 'Well, what if you dropped out?' And I said, 'You can take these proposals and throw them in the Missouri river'" [David Weigel, "The Other Guy Ruining the GOP's Chances in South Dakota," Bloomberg, 2014.10.14].

Ah, there's no buying our friend Gordon, especially not when he smells his big break-out opportunity just one EB-5 blog post away:

According to Howie, Republicans in and out of office had been whispering that they supported him but didn't want to come out and say so. They would only come out, he suggested, if and when Rounds imploded.

"The ice is very thin, and shaking," he said. "This was Rounds's race to lose, and he's losing it. If he’s contradicted on the EB-5 story, by a document, just one more time, I think the ice breaks under him" [Weigel, 2014.10.14].

Hmm... one more good blog post with one more document showing one more Mike Rounds lie, and Gordon Howie becomes Senator? Do I dare?

15 Comments

  1. Dr. Math 2014.10.14

    This post is so much better with the Corn Palace picture!

  2. Deb Geelsdottir 2014.10.14

    Great visual Cory.

    So Howie is taking votes from Rounds? Good!

  3. caheidelberger Post author | 2014.10.14

    Well, Deb, he's not taking those votes from Rounds yet. He says he needs one more EB-5 document, one more lie from Rounds...

    ...work work work...

  4. Roger Cornelius 2014.10.14

    Only one more lie? One more document? Look no further Gordon and take sometime and read all of Cory's reporting on the Mike Rounds EB-5 scandal, surely there is something in here that can cause Rounds to implode.

    I'm curious, how much is Gordon Howie worth in dollars and cents?

  5. grudznick 2014.10.14

    Mr. Howie is insaner than most. He wants Gov. Rounds to bail out and give him his 38%. And Mr. Howie does not pay his taxes and realize that they should jump in the Cheyenne river, which is grungier than most. It flows into the Missouri anyway and then into the Gulf of Mexico, which is named for and adjacent to where most of the people Mr. Howie hates jumping the fence come from. Mr. Howie is insaner than most. His god needs to stay out of your and my government.

  6. Roger Cornelius 2014.10.14

    grudz,

    How much would pay Mr. Howie to stay out of the race so Mike Rounds could win?

  7. Tim 2014.10.15

    RC, in typical republican hypo-critical fashion, he would expect government to pay off Howie then bitch about how much the government spent, all the time blaming Obama.

  8. JeniW 2014.10.15

    Tim, that sounds similar to Mike Rounds.

  9. caheidelberger Post author | 2014.10.15

    I would just like to know which Republican operatives contacted Howie... so we can laugh at them. Seriously, Republicans? You think your time and money is better spent scheming to get Gordon out than just running a straightforward campaign to bring enough people to the polls to render Howie's 6% irrelevant? I would fire you for wasting your time on such a ploy.

  10. tara volesky 2014.10.15

    Cory 6% is very relevant, in fact I think he could reach double digits.

  11. tara volesky 2014.10.15

    I admire Gordon for going rogue on his Republican party. He should be the Democrats best friend.

  12. Steve Sibson 2014.10.15

    Cory, instead of using the Corn Palace as a prop, how about using Hogan's Heros. Rounds could be Sargent Schultz...I see nothing, I hear nothing, I know nothing.

  13. JeniW 2014.10.15

    Ah Steve, that is a good one! :)

  14. mikeyc, that's me! 2014.10.15

    Republicans "coming out". Too funny.

  15. Les 2014.10.15

    6% if that is all, will be very relevant in this race. You Dems should be catering to LP to move his % into your camp. Time or crime will tell.

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