Do not be silent, O God of my praise, or wicked and deceitful mouths are opened against me, speaking against me with lying tongues.... For a moment, I thought I was on the phone with Gordon Howie. But no, here…
Posts tagged as “Larry Pressler”
Larry Pressler. Larry Pressler. It's November 2014. A mid-term election happens in three days. Why on earth am I talking about Larry Pressler? Because Larry Pressler just won the endorsement of the biggest newspaper in South Dakota. The editorial board…
I have never heard an Independent or third-party candidate on the South Dakota ballot sound as serious, as well-versed in policy, or as downright sane and competent as Larry Pressler. Coming off last night's Senate debate performance, in which he…
Democrat Rick Weiland and Independents Larry Pressler and Gordon Howie spent the final debate of South Dakota's U.S. Senate campaign doing what they should have been doing from Day One of their campaigns: calling Republican Mike Rounds out on his…
Finally, Rick Weiland and I have something we can disagree on. Our Democratic candidate for Senate is telling Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee to pull their ads against Mike Rounds. In a Monday press release,…
KELO misreads its own poll on the effect of Northern Beef Packers and EB-5 on the U.S. Senate race. "EB-5 Has Little Effect on Voters," says the headline, introducing Ben Dunsmoor's dismissal of the potency of the issue. But we…
Rick Weiland, Larry Pressler, Mike Rounds, and Gordon Howie "debated" on South Dakota Public Broadcasting last night to prove who ought to be South Dakota's next Senator. Here are the most important observations to come from the debate: Gordon Howie…
A couple weeks ago, Kevin Woster wondered when Larry Pressler's friend Kevin Schieffer would throw some money toward his old boss's U.S. Senate candidacy. Schieffer is now throwing, forming a Super PAC to spend "a couple hundred thousand" on this…