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Joel Rosenthal Embraces Pressler Policy Talk, Writes Pulp Fiction

Kevin Woster's debunking of the Larry Pressler-closet story provokes Joel Rosenthal to recount a locker-room meeting with the veteran Senator and newly minted Independent candidate. Rosenthal says he was "barely clothed in a towel after showering" when Pressler "literally bumped…

Nelson Attacks Rounds on Deficit, Votes; GOP Puts Clothes in Spin Cycle

...with Extra False-Quote Fabric-ation Softener! I think we all got a little distracted in the discussion of Rep. Stace Nelson's speech at the Lincoln County Republicans' dinner Saturday. I think Team Wadhams-Rounds wanted us to get distracted. Let's put that…

Update: Montgomery Transcript Contradicts Rosenthal Attack on Nelson

Really important update! Could it be that an august mainstream Republican misquoted a firebrand party pariah? Earlier I noted former SDGOP exec Joel Rosenthal's lambasting of Rep. Stace Nelson's apparent exclusion of non-Christians from Republican Party membership. Here's what Rosenthal…

Nelson Says Jews Can’t Be Republicans; Jewish Former SDGOP Exec Unhappy

Important Update 11:28 CDT! Nelson said no such thing. Rosenthal was hearing things! Update 2013.09.24 12:05 CDT: Read my read of the smokescreen of fabric and fabrication Rosenthal and company are trying to blow for Mike Rounds. *******Original Post******* Joel…

Rosenthal Raps Republicans for Giving ALEC Taxpayer Dollars

Former South Dakota Republican Party exec Joel Rosenthal joins other prominent Republicans and a whole bunch of angry South Dakotans in saying that the new Republican-backed policy of giving taxpayer dollars to the partisan, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council is…

GOP Attacks on Herseth Sandlin Lobbying Doomed to Backfire

Republican spinster Pat Powers decries Stephanie Herseth Sandlin's work as a lobbyist, then in its next breath calls Governor Dennis Daugaard's choice of lobbyist and former GOP exec Lucas Lentsch a "great pick." Powers breathes not a word about Senator…

Vague Cries for Education Reform Must Face Irrelevance of Test Scores

Joel Rosenthal wakes us up with some vague griping and moaning about the need for education reform. Rosenthal acknowledges South Dakotans' rejection last November of Initiated Measure 15 and Referred Law 16 as signals that we think our K-12 system…