We're a week into meteorological fall, and there are plenty of reminders of what I think of as "South Dakota Fall": crisp air, bonfires, sweatshirts, Friday high school football and Saturday college football, and homecoming parades. I took the quick…
Posts tagged as “Rick Weiland”
The press here in South Dakota and abroad regularly shorthands Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland as "former Congressional staffer" or "former Daschle staffer." Don't résumés usually operate in reverse chronological order? Wouldn't it make more journalistic sense to refer…
No more nukes! You don't hear that campaign slogan in South Dakota much. But maybe Rick Weiland is adding that line to his list. David Montgomery reports that the anti-nuke Council for a Livable World is endorsing Weiland in South…
Update 16:59 CDT: Annette Bosworth's beacon, Che Guevara, also wanted America to over-extend itself in multiple Vietnams. * * * David Montgomery gets all five of South Dakota's U.S. Senate candidates on the record in opposition to attacking Syria... well,…
Senator John Thune won't be on any ballot until 2016, but his friends at the American Chemistry Council are treating him like he's a candidate with their local ad buy thanking him for keeping government out of your relationship with…
Unlike Marion Michael Rounds, who seems to be focusing his Senate campaign on big fundraising events that give him an excuse to fuel up his private plane with campaign donations, Rick Weiland has caféstormed over 100 South Dakota towns in…
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Rick Weiland wants to focus on the economy, health care, and corporations' anti-democratic domination of politics. He doesn't think social issues will be a big issue in the 2014 election. Republican candidate for U.S. Senate…