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Posts tagged as “Matt Varilek”

Brookings Dems Hosting Barth-Varilek House Race Q&A May 23!

The boring, blathering "Bill Clay" fails to launch another meme. Amidst his weekly output (which this week included a mere three posts totaling 152 original words, or the equivalent of what I usually publish before my first bowl of Raisin…

McGovern Endorses Varilek: Unalloyed Good for Matt

George McGovern endorsed Matt Varilek for U.S. House this week. MDR's Tom Lawrence offers some tantalizing though non-binding historical parallels between Varilek's challenge and McGovern's first win against a Hamlin County incumbent. The Republican spin machine can only recycle the…

No Dress Code for Talking with Varilek… or for Giving Him Money

Our Congresswoman Kristi Noem flies to California Thursday for more high-class hobnobbing with wealthy elites, as seems to be her wont in February. (Maybe she's just fighting seasonal affective disorder; we all need our Vitamin D!) One of the men…

Varilek Edges Barth in Meade Dems Straw Poll; Both Can Improve

South Dakota Dems have their first straw poll numbers in the Democratic primary race for the privilege of sending Congresswoman Kristi Noem back to the farm in November. Jeff Barth and Matt Varilek made their pitches to fifty West River…

Varilek Wins Cash, Johnson, Daschle… Herseth Sandlin Next?

If Jeff Barth gained any advantage from launching his U.S. House campaign early, Matt Varilek has destroyed it. In the five weeks since announcing his candidacy, Varilek has raised over $100,000—maybe a tenth of what Congresskitten Kristi Noem has purred…

Varilek: Noem Lets Tea Party Politics Endanger Economy

Democratic candidates for U.S. House Matt Varilek and Jeff Barth have hit the papers and the airwaves with their criticisms of Rep. Kristi Noem's vote to raise darn near every worker's taxes by $1000 (Merry Christmas from the subsidy princess!).…