Pat Powers does his master's bidding and advertises the "SDGOP Grassroots Express State Tour" with special guest Mike Rounds— —wait. SDGOP? Snort. Grassroots? Hee hee. Mike Rounds? —Hoo boy! O.K., I'm recovered. Back to work. (Giggle!) The SDGOP will hold…
Posts published in July 2014
Jonathan Ellis notes that Senator John Thune's leadership PAC, the Heartland Values PAC (aw, what a sweet little name!) is raking in more cash . The nearly $1.3 million Senator Thune has raised to sprinkle on other candidates tops the…
From whom does Independent Senate candidate Larry Pressler take more votes, Republican Mike Rounds or Democrat Rick Weiland? I maintain that Pressler's prior Republicanism and Democratic unity behind their best statewide candidate mean Pressler's a bigger threat to Rounds. However,…
Who's about to lose their job? Phifer and Associates of Chicago. Why? Because the Corinna Robinson for House campaign paid them $3,750 for "fundraising consulting" to help bring in more contributions. In the first half of Q2, Robinson raised $17,270.…
Annette Bosworth has just walked out of her second hearing at the Hughes County Courthouse. The judge has set November 13 –14 as the failed GOP Senate candidate's trial date for twelve counts of perjury and filing a false oath.…
This is Debbie Martines. She died in 1994 when a man who had abused her for years came home drunk and killed her in front of her two children. Martines was pregnant when she died. This is Joaquin Jack Ramos.…
A cranky reader sends a snapshot of this cute Mike Rounds for Senate sign: Now why would kids like Mike Rounds? Do they like seeing Rounds and his fellow grown-ups give their schools a smaller piece of the pie than…