If I were looking only at the Internet, I would assume that Senator Phil Jensen isn't really trying to stop Robin Page from taking his District 33 Senate seat.
Consider Jensen's campaign website: he doesn't to appear to have updated any content on the page since 2012. He certainly doesn't mention his marquee legislation from 2014, his absurd and embarrassing attack on LGBT civil rights. He certainly doesn't talk about his laughing acceptance of his hypocrisy on drug-testing and his GOP-rejected tolerance of the Ku Klux Klan. (Interestingly, Jensen's Tea-soaked "Interesting Links" page disses the SDGOP by offering a link labeled "South Dakota Republican Party" that actually takes clickers to the website of an anonymous splinter group that starkly criticizes the main party.)
Consider Jensen's campaign Facebook page: since his primary victory on June 3, Team Jensen has posted one announcement, an August 15 call for volunteers to bring "unicycles... goats, chickens..." to the Central States Fair parade.
Meanwhile, Robin Page's Facebook page is bubbling with updates and photos of the Democratic candidate working crowds, chatting up her party leaders and fellow candidates, having fun, and rallying her supporters to action. Page also points out that while she's out stumping, Jensen is hiding. She says Jensen declined an interview with the Rapid City Journal and skipped a forum with important civic groups like the local Chamber and Home Builders Association.
As noted by Seth Tupper, Page is running as the anti-Jensen, not just on issues, but on campaign style. Page is using Jensen's own lackluster campaign funding as proof of his declining support. In a campaign graphic, Page shows that Jensen's campaign fundraising has steadily declined over the last four elections as his radical positions have become better known. This graphic claims that, after raising over $18,000 to get into the State House in 2008, Jensen this year hasn't been able to raise more than $3,000:
We won't have campaign finance reports to verify Jensen's poverty or compare Page's campaign cash until later this month. But if Jensen continues to keep such a low profile, it wouldn't be surprising if Page surpasses him in cash and votes.
Did our good buddy Phil ever open up his KKK Bakery in Rapid City?
Wow! I checked out Robin's facebook page and website and she is a great candidate and getting out there. Good luck Robin! You will be an asset in Pierre.
" She says Jensen declined an interview with the Rapid City Journal and skipped a forum with important civic groups like the local Chamber and Home Builders Association."
So Jensen is against the crony capitalism of the Chamber. Why is Page going pro-crony capitalism?
Sibby, local chambers are only rarely associated with the Koch/ALEC US Chamber: pick a lane, little buddy.
Larry, the local chambers are associated with the crony capitalism in Pierre, South Dakota. Remember the IM10 2008 lesson when the NEA gave a million dollars to the State Chamber to protect Pierre's system of legal corruption? Now Daugaard's workforce summits are run by local chambers. At least the one in Mitchell is.
I doubt Jensen's failure to attend a forum with the local Chamber and the Homebuilders Association had anything to do with opposition to crony capitalism but rather is symptomatic of an arrogant candidate who figures this election is in the bag and he doesn't have to campaign.
Sibby: it's like you're on a carousel with a Super Soaker filled with urine just spraying anybody within range. You don't even vote in the district at which Cory's post points.
Where's the beef, Steve?
So in Steve's world, simply talking to someone suggests endorsement, and not speaking to somenoe suggest rejection.
In that vein, what is suggested by Steve engaging a bunch of liberals on a daily basis?
I doubt that it's a case of arrogance, Mr. Nemec. Jensen has been the object of so much ridicule and rejection, including from within his own party, that he's probably--and with good reason--terrrfied of more exposure to the public limelight. My guess is that he's hoping he can coast in with the same support structure that has worked for him in the past. I note that he just barely squeaked by in the primary. A lot of Republican voters have had all they can take of him. If they choose to sit it out instead of voting for Page, an uber-lib Dem, then I think Jensen gets re-elected. If their disdain for Jensen is strong enough to get them to vote for Page, she's got a chance. I think the former scenario is more likely than the latter. Much as I like and admire what I've seen of Ms. Page, I'd say my good friend Haven Stuck would have a better chance of capturing the anti-Jensen vote from disgusted Republicans. All in all, I wish her well and hope she captures the seat.
"Where's the beef, Steve?"
It is Cory's charge that Jensen is a racist. That cultural Neo-Marxist false accusations are being used by Cory to argue Jensen can't raise campaign money (see Cory's chart). The real reason is that Jensen is not liked by the Neo-Fascist crony capitalists who are responsible for building large campaign war chests. You Democrats should understand that. That is why you lose in South Dakota most of the time. But instead of joining in with the anti-crony capitalist conservatives, Cory is attacking conservatives. Not very smart. But it does help make my point that the crony capitalist Neo-Fascist movement's power primarily comes from the Big Government Neo-Marxist movement of the left. Sadly the ones controlling both parties are able to get the citizens to fight and hate each other, based on party lines. It is called divide and conquer. So both the SDGOP Establishment and South Dakota Democratic activists (you can also add corporate media elites like Seth Tupper) want to put conservatives like Jensen at the back of the bus, so that the rainbow people at the front of the bus can shame him into silence.
Steve are there others in Mitchell or are you the only one?
And Sibson's neo-idiocy continues.
From what I understand, the Chamber of Commerce and the Home Builders did not endorse any candidates, they simply sponsored a candidate forum.
If the Chamber is everything that Sibson claims, I admire Page's for going into the lion's den.
Rapid City's union membership is quite high, though google searches have yet to reveal the numbers: anyone know?
"If the Chamber is everything that Sibson claims, I admire Page's for going into the lion's den."
And Cory said:
"it wouldn't be surprising if Page surpasses him in cash and votes"
Would that not also mean Page caved in to the crony capitalists of the Chamber?
No Steve it wouldn't mean that Page caved to crony capitalist in the Chamber.
It would mean that like other candidates, she attended a Chamber of Commerce political forum, what part of that don't you understand Steve?
..."want to put ... Jensen at the back of the bus."
No, they want to hand him his hat and tell him if he wants a ride, to get a horse. Throw the bum out Robin!
Now Fleming is jumping in with the traitor who caved in to the crony capitalists. But Fleming done that himself years ago:
https://www.chamberofcommerce.com/rapid-city-sd/29811359-hot-pink-ink
Yeah, those darn old Chamber cronies of mine. They never call, never write. Plus, the address on that blurb is at least 4 years out of date. Oh well.
sib-do i detect humor in "fleming done that" after all the thrashing you have taken here? please see my post quoting Hastings Law Prof. Wu which pretty much states our dilemma with your "neo-ness" in a racism thread. wu, huffpost 9.30.14
Yeah, Mr. Sibby. Bill moved to better digs where they sell fancy beers right in the same building, but only Thursday nights and Friday afternoons. See ya there tomorrow, after 5.
Anyway, this thread is about the awesome campaign Robin is running, she seems to have some good support around Rapid City.
Send her some cash if you can.
Agreed, Roger. I know a bunch of Repubs in that district who are like Mr. Tsitrian. They are completely fed up with Jensen. I hope they give Robin a shot.
Bill,
It wouldn't surprise me at all after Repubs in District 33 might actually like what Robin represents.
I sure wish the priests would have left you alone, Sibby. (sorry Cory, I just had to)
Mr. C, it would not surprise me at all, either. Mr. Jensen's leather jacket really pisses some people off and his smarminess and insaner-than-most voting habits have most Republicans with Common Sense against him. It was a darn shame that other fellow didn't win the primary, but the nutjobs always pull a large foaming mob at those primaries. I, sir, am for this other lady regardless of her libbyism.
district 33 that would be...the one state repubs. gerrymandered to accomodate a chicagoan to dump some 3000 repub. absentee votes of those voters the repubs. engineered as RV-ers who slept here once and the repubs. by law granted citizenship-i mean greencards-i mean permanent residency. you got one of them cards grudz?
Ms. lesliengland, I am not sure I understand your rambling and poorly structured paragraph without capitalization, so forgive me if my answer doesn't directly address whatever it is that is rattling about in your brain but not coming out of your fingers.
No, I am not an RVer who was granted permanent residency in South Dakota in district 33 due to gerrymandering of districts.
I do not have a card that says I slept in district 33. I have slept there often. It is a bit of a nasty place, but I have slept there without a card.
I, for one, would advocate for the repeal of all laws giving greencards to RVers regardless of what district they slept in.
Does that answer your question, young lady? It was a poorly worded question so I can only make so much pottery out of your poop.
You don't vote in 33 do you?
No Ma'am. And if I did, I would not vote for Mr. Jensen.
grudz, nice to see that your saner than most and wouldn't support the racist Jensen.
By the way grudz, how much of those missing millions in EB-5 monies do you suppose Mike Rounds has paid to Dick Wadhams?
"I, sir, am for this other lady regardless of her libbyism."
All right, who is this imposter and what have you done with my pal Grudz?
Gooooo Robin!
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There is some irony in using a very obnoxious message to satisfy its stupid demand.
Come on people now. Smile on your brother. Everybody get together, try to love one another right now. 10 20, 50 years from now if we continue to get along so well, I'll start singing "What a Wonderful World"
Both of those songs will stand the test of time. Will America?
"I know a bunch of Repubs in that district who are like Mr. Tsitrian. They are completely fed up with Jensen."
Some of your crony capitalist Chamber buddies Fleming.
Steve is clearly suffering from spouse abuse: his hatred for women manifests itself at Madville.
Anyone have a pickup I can borrow next time I'm in Mitchell? I'll stop by Mueller lumber and have a large crucifix assembled for Steve to drag around Mitchell and play the victim.
Come on Steve do you really think your converting readers on this primarily liberal "neo-Marxist" blog to your cause? It's never ending! lol
I remember when Sibby's trope du jour was "secular-humanist." I think he finally figured out that he wasn't really insulting anybody with that one and so, has kicked it down a notch. His "crony" thing is an expression of his resentment of the fact that other than those of us who tolerate his yammering here, he really doesn't have any real capitalist cronies. They won't let him post on the real "crony" site. Just sayin'. Let's face it, Sibby, if we weren't liberals, you wouldn't have an outlet.
Bill, crony capitalists are liberals too. That is why both sides hate Jensen and fellow conservatives like me, we are a threat to your power and abilities to be totalitarians.
Sibby, there has never been a single moment in time when I have ever felt threatened by you in any way whatsoever. Sorry.
"Come on Steve do you really think your converting readers on this primarily liberal "neo-Marxist" blog to your cause?"
No, because you all are wearing your colons as hats.
Yes Bill, I do understand you are in a state of denial. For the reason, see my last comment.
p.s. Sibby, are you saying it is your and Mr. Jenson's intention to threaten me? Please clarify.
Steve why don't you save all of us grief including yourself and just post on your own blog. Remember SibbyOnline? We are polar opposites and your wasting everyone's time here and diverting the focus of the threads.
Steve, few deny that you are a threat to your community since you are no longer getting laid. Try here:
http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/prof_results.php?state=SD&spec=17
Yup Larry, it's starting to look like Sibby's becoming a threat to himself and others. Maybe he should give that keyboard a rest. I don't think they let people post on blogs from the State Hospital ward.
PP banned Donald Pay after what he perceived was a threat on Larry Mann. Sibby should be put in time out.
Sibby represents a large portion of the anti establishment population in Mitchell. Unfortunately a lot of those people don't vote.
Bill & Larry: why do you two continually create false conspiracy theories? The threat to liberals of both parties is the conservatives limited government policies that would be a threat to the governmental powers you liberals are currently using to implement your command and control totalitarian polices. If you guys are taking that personal, then you need to do something about your paranoia. Us conservative will not be successful, because we are up against big money from both parties. Sorry that your guilt causes you to issue false personal attacks.
Lynn, my last comment goes to you to. Sorry your guilt causes you so much grief. So you want me to go away so you liberals can have your hate feast on conservatives uninterrupted. Very sad, that you cannot deal with those who choose to defend ourselves from attacks that have been concocted out of deceptions. Page's attack on Jensen is a prime example of how the Neo-Marxist worldview creates hate mongering. And that propaganda can only stand if no one stands up to it and forces you indoctrinated fools to face reality.
I am a resident of district 33 and was appalled when Mr. Jensen was elected the first time. I fully expect to receive a postcard in the mail a couple of days before the election from some group I have never heard of telling me Robin Page is a flaming liberal alcoholic Satan worshipper who supports the "New World Order" and is going to take away your guns. None of it will be true and you will never hear of the group again.
Mr. Jensen came here from Sedgwick County (Wichita) Kansas. Kansas has a long history of political misdeeds in the name of decency and "God's Laws" . Vern Miller (not the South Dakota Vern Miller) was the Sedgwick County Marshal 60's and 70's and then State Attorney General. As Marshal he would send his men into bookstores to pick out books that might pornographic or offensive to the community standards and take a copy for review telling the owner they may be charged for violating the law. Today Wichita is the home of some mega churches and dozens of adult venues plus a gang and drug problem.
More recently the State's Attorney Phill Kline was defeated by the Johnson County State's Attorney (A Democrat) and was appointed to fill the term of Johnson County State's attorney. He was defeated in the next election and stripped of his law license by the Kansas Supreme Court for misconduct in pursuing charges against abortion doctor George Tiller using illegal and unconstitutional methods. He removed case records from his Attorney general's office when he was defeated (against Kansas law). He apparently feels that his interpretation of God's laws gives him license to ignore man's laws. He has quite a few supporters. I would hazard a guess that Mr. Jensen is cut from the same bolt of cloth.
Sibby, insisting that the government should have the authority to appropriate a woman's body and force her to bear children against her will is the very definition of totalitarian government. So is restricting and abridging certain people's right to vote. And so is presuming authoritory over how loving couples behave in private and whether or not they have a right to marry one another. The only person threatening totalitarianism here is you. And that's not paranoia, it's documented fact.
A government that insist females have the right to kill another human without due process isn't much different than a government who insist they can kill the disabled and Jews in gas chambers. So Hitler's Germany was not totalitarian, Bill? Does liberty equal licentious? Does liberty equal anarchy? Do some research on administrative law if you want to understand totalitarianism.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/10/02/3574948/iud-study-teen-pregnancy-drop/
WR Old Guy,Ollie North and his sexretary Fawn Hall told Congress there was a higher law than the Constitution when North was caught running guns to Iran and then using the ill gotten gains to support Raygun's dirty little war in Nicaraugua. Since then,it seems to be tradition for whitey wingnut to invoke god's law to gain political cover.
sib-research "human"
well Jensen may have been encouraged to hear we have terrorists here who shoot out free choice clinic doors with rifles, free speech I guess, but whether ar15s,16s or ak47s were used may not be known. let's go backwards sd, Jackson cty, chamberlian, WHS ect.
Steve: "A government that insist females have the right to kill another human without due process isn't much different than a government who insist they can kill the disabled and Jews in gas chambers."
I'd agree. Thankfully our government doesn't allow females to kill other huamns without due process, so it would seem we don't have much to worry about.
What other false arguments do you have? Keep in mind Steve, you have a right to your own opinions, but you do not have a right to your own facts.
"Thankfully our government doesn't allow females to kill other huamns without due process"
We call it abortions.
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/219340-abortion-laws-have-created-two-nations-and-women-of-color-pay
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/09/29/enough-enough-repeal-hyde-now/
Another good thread shot to hell by a neo-idiot hijacker wanting to call attention to himself like he's playing a child's game. NOTICE ME are Sibson's words to live by.
Of course Sibson has to post here, Powers would run him out in a Republican minute.
He's obviously to damn lazy to write his own blog and uses Cory's Madville Times as his own personal property.
"We call it abortions."
You can call it whatever you wish Steve... but that doesn't mean it is correct. The law of the land as well as biology (and frankly even the dictionary) does not recognize a fetus as a "human being". A distinct human being doesn't exist until birth, thus generally speaking the term fetus is more applicable assuming you are speaking of roughly 8-10 weeks after fertilization until birth. Prior to that, you may use the term embryo or even zygote at the earliest stage. Thus our government does not in any way allow females to kill other humans without due process. Period.
Your views, just as your religion, do not trump law or biology nor do they grant you the power to misappropriate terminology for your own purposes.
Craig, regardless of the semantics (which Sibby will argue ad infinitum, ad nauseum), abortion has been upheld by the supreme law of the land dozens of times. There is no greater "due process" than that. That fact alone makes Sibson's "due process" point moot.
Excellent Craig.
Who is this "we,"Sibby? You got worms?
p.s. Craig,
Sibby's overarching point is that because he believes fertilized human eggs are people, killing one constitutes murder.
(He has zero legal basis for this of course.)
But because he believes it, he goes on to insist that anyone who doesn't believe that killing a fertilized human egg is murder is a power-mad, godless totalitarian monster.
That's why he needs to take a nice long trip to the psych ward in Yankton and learn how to paint watercolors... practice his guitar chords.
To tie this back to the topic, as Robin Page's graphic notes, Mr. Jensen goes so far as to propose a state law (HB1171) that says it's okay to murder doctors and nurses who help women who need abortions.
Sibby and Jensen would make good roommates together down in the State Hospital, don't you think, Craig?
https://madvilletimes.com/2011/02/hb-1171-legislators-scramble-for-cover-on-abortion-word-games/
I may find many of his views rather extreme, but I can't go so far as to say Steve needs the services of an inpatient mental health facility. The thing is, people that are that far out on the lunatic fringe (pardon the pun) whether it be the left or the right are very helpful. They more often that not express to others with similar (albeit not as extreme) viewpoints that they might just be off base, and it encourages them to re-think their world views.
Just look at what seems to be happening to Jensen - the more people learn about his extreme views and what is under the surface, the more they turn away and reject him and his views. Instead of Jensen drawing people to his view and being in any way influential... he has the opposite impact from his intent.
Therefore although I may not agree with Steve often, and I can't claim to understand what he is hoping to accomplish with his daily rants or why he chooses to co-opt another person's blog for his own self-indulgant purposes... but at the very least I do find him mildly entertaining.
Obviously that isn't Steve's goal, but thus far it is the only influence or effect he has had upon me.
Fair enough Craig. To each his own. I myself find him about as entertaining as a hemorrhoid attack.
Send Robin Page a campaign donation today.
Roger said, "Another good thread shot to hell by a neo-idiot hijacker wanting to call attention to himself like he's playing a child's game. NOTICE ME are Sibson's words to live by."
Damn. I wish he wasn't right.
Thank You Cory for covering my campaign! I appreciate your support. FYI for the bloggers: I am working hard to attend every meeting that I am invited to speak at. They are great avenues to share information and answer questions. It is through these kinds of forums that we are able to have open discourse and find some kind of middle ground for the common good. I believe that we elect our leaders to take our state and nation forward. In order to do that, our leaders must participate in listening to the people they represent and then try to find the compromises that will best serve the needs of as many citizens as possible. Let's work together to move our state and nation forward!
Robin, thank you for your willingness to campaign for office, and for your willingness to fulfill the responsibilities of the office.
Best wishes to you for a successful future!!
Working hard, attending every meeting... dang! Sounds like Robin is working harder than Phil Jensen and Mike Rounds put together! State Senate 2014... U.S. Senate 2016, Robin?
No Deb, it is not about me. This thread is about how you liberals support crony capitalism. The only reason you guys are barking about EB-5 is because you want to win an election or two. That kind of mindset does not fit Robin's statement that we need to find common ground to move this state and nation forward. The problem is that in the past, as it is today, the common ground has been Big Government as the solution. Big Government includes the EB-5 program, which brings communists to America.
"as Robin Page's graphic notes, Mr. Jensen goes so far as to propose a state law (HB1171) that says it's okay to murder doctors and nurses who help women who need abortions."
So Robin, do you really think your chart that promotes false accusations is a way to find common ground? Your campaign is very divisive and full of deception and Neo-Marxist propaganda.
Judge rules state abuse laws don't apply to unborn:
http://www.aberdeennews.com/news/local/judge-rules-state-abuse-laws-don-t-apply-to-unborn/article_48db3e5a-3440-5cbe-a5e4-f17c7cf9a11c.html
Another day of that 78 album Neo-Extreme on the record player skipping.
Neo-idiot forgot his morning medication.
This crony capitalist has already sent Robin a contribution. It appears she makes good use of contributions instead of wasting them.