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Noem Seen in Castlewood with Democrat Welke, Not GOP Challenger Greenfield

An eager reader suggests that Congresswoman Kristi Noem's photo of State Senator Chuck Welke is news:

I'm looking for the headline here...

Rep. Noem takes a moment to tweet a picture of herself with her current state senator, Chuck Welke, who happens to be a Democrat. No problem: I consort with folks on the other side of the aisle all the time, and it doesn't mean I endorse them. Rep. Noem has been working on the youth vote with her couch-sleeping cred; why not burnish her bipartisanship with an easy photo?

But Demcoratic State Senator Welke is running for re-election against Republican State Rep. Brock Greenfield, who served alongside Noem when she was stuck in Pierre. Where's the Noem–Greenfield picture from Castlewood Days? Does the Welke–Noem photo implicitly endorse Welke or boost Welke's vote count?

Unlikely. The photo isn't that great for Welke's press purposes: he's not smiling, she's not looking at the camera, and it's cloudy. The photo says less about about Noem and more about Greenfield: if he wanted a picture with our Congresswoman, he should have trucked his golf cart to Castlewood, too. (Welke and Greenfield could enter the mud drags today at Memorial Park! Now that would be awesome politicking!)

Greenfield did send Noem's campaign $250 last winter. I have yet to see any Noem money in the Greenfield campaign kitty, but the Secretary of State's campaign finance report viewer appears to be broken, and the election season is yet young!

10 Comments

  1. larry kurtz 2014.08.10

    Noem: Memorial Implicitly Local Festival

  2. mike from iowa 2014.08.10

    that is the only way that acronym works,imho. Are you contemplating an acronymious affair?

  3. owen reitzel 2014.08.10

    If anybody can attend Noem will be in Alexandria on Tuesday at Joe's Cafe at 1:30 p.m.
    I have to work so I won't be able to.

  4. mike 2014.08.10

    Noem should class it up a bit as a congresswoman. You don't see Thune out running around in cutoff shorts with holes and a tank top. It turns off quite a few people to see her show up like she doesn't have a lot of respect for the people she is meeting with.

    Welke is a really strong candidate and the kind of Democrat Democrat's should be recruiting if they want to win in Republican districts.

  5. Mike Henriksen 2014.08.10

    Greenfield is at the State Amatuer Baseball tourney in Mitchell where he gets free room and board for 11 days.

  6. caheidelberger Post author | 2014.08.10

    Free room and board? Who's paying that bill, Mike?

  7. Mike Henriksen 2014.08.10

    The state baseball association. Why do you think the tourney is in SF every 2 years? The commissioners stay at the Sheraton and hang in a suite for the entire tourney! In Mitchell they are in the Holiday Inn and have a courtesy trailer.

  8. caheidelberger Post author | 2014.08.10

    Heck of a job! Kristi should have gone down and gotten pictures for us. :-)

  9. grudznick 2014.08.10

    Young Mr. Greenfield seems a bit slothish and slow afoot to be a baseball player. What position does he play?

  10. Mike Henriksen 2014.08.10

    No position anymore. He is now an authority figure.

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