Mike Rounds and the South Dakota Republican Party are having an awful time coming up with answers to the substantive charges of corruption surrounding Mike Rounds's economic development policies. Consider the latest revelations about misconduct under the Governor's Office of…
Posts tagged as “Dick Wadhams”
Dick Wadhams and the South Dakota Republican Party are really good at hearing only what they want to hear and not what is actually said. Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) spent 20 minutes Monday laying out the case that…
David Newquist knows how to bum me out. His pessimism about South Dakota's political landscape makes it hard to keep up hope for liberal democracy in our fair state. Hearing my complaint about the difficulty of finding good candidates to…
I expected more from Dick Wadhams. But the slumping Rove wannabe who returned to the scene of his star-making 2004 crime to work for Mike Rounds made nary a ping on our political radar until last week, when the South…
Denise Ross doesn't go quite as far as other observers who declared Stace Nelson the winner of last weekend's SDNA-sponsored GOP Senate candidates debate, but she sees signs in Rounds's debate performance and ad campaign that signal trouble in Rounds-land.…
An eager reader asks that I remind South Dakotans of the campaign tactics we can expect M. Michael Rounds's new campaign consultant Dick Wadhams to bring back to South Dakota: In 2004, when Wadhams was helping Republican John Thune to…
M. Michael Rounds's hiring of Dick Wadhams as consultant to his U.S. Senate campaign tells me four things: Team Rounds's embrace of Wadhams's politics of personal destruction demonstrates a commitment to making me use the s's combination far more than…