After listening to Mr. Clark try to mumble through his interview with B-N-B, one wonders how such an unknown could have taken more votes then Saba. He doesn’t even understand that road monies that come from taxes on vehicles, registration and gas are for fixing roads. He suggests we should spend that money on fixing up private and abandoned railroad infrastructure. First off, not even lawfully possible and secondly the railroads are private. Besides the Federal easement of land, they are responsible for fixing their own tracks.
I still believe that the story Dana Ferguson did on Saba saying he was a Muslim using one source (from a Republican) really hurt him. Saba has said to me that he wasn’t offended to be called a Muslim, but it was a disservice to call him something he is not.
It’s going to be another thrilling legislative session.
He won because of the three “Rs,” the RV vote, the “R” attached to his name, and the “Rural vote” which voted overwhelming for Trump and aided candidates like him.
Or perhaps there is a well liked and known “Michael Clark” in District 9 and many voters thought they were voting for him instead, who knows?
Maybe, this Clark wants to raise the state sales tax an additional penny to fix the tracks in this state, like Janklow did back in ’81, in order to purchase the old Milwaukee Road track for the BN? Who knows, but does he even know is the question?
It is my understanding that this Clark was a stealth candidate who was seldom seen nor heard from, yet he won. It is a mystery unless you accept the three “Rs” reality with the help of the Argus mistake.
But it is most definitely a true shame that Saba didn’t win, District 9 is one of the few,i f not only, competitive legislative districts in the Sioux Falls area. Democrats Hawks and Anderson have won in that district before. This competitive reality is caused by the intentional southern gerrymandering creep of District 15 into Districts 12 and 13, which benefits 9, but hurts 12 and 13. All because the Republicans are trying to assure safe victories for the Republican elites of Sioux Falls in the city core, who would be less likely to run for office and or win, if they had to deal with competitive races and a more honest reality.
ITS HARTFORD….did you really think they would elect a better candidate.
He’s just straight up weird.
TBFFKW: Nailed it.
Winston makes a point. Yes, the 3 R’s. But also the other R’s (reedin, ritein, rithmatic). Hartford isn’t known for it’s brilliant population. Generally, South Dakota politics is baffling. We had a governor who was guilty of vehicular homocide.
He’s not as dumb as you think he is. Without railroads in our state, we would have the equivalent of 28 million more additional trucks a year hauling heavy loads of commodities on our highways and secondary road system. What do you think that would do to our roads? How many more millions of dollars would we need to spend on infrastructure and repairing our roads? So yes, rail is a huge need in South Dakota and the state already owns thousands of miles of track in South Dakota and even some in a neighboring state. This is used to make sure that our roads do not take the beating that they could be taking. So yes, rail generally is private, but in South Dakota there’s a public private partnership and the railroad board is part of the department of transportation in South Dakota. So before we condemn this guy to being an idiot, remember that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Let’s make sure we all do our homework before we spout off at the mouth about who is smart who is not or what we think we know or what we actually know. The last thing anybody from Sioux Falls should do is talk about how people in a neighboring town are stupid. It was the voters of Sioux Falls that voted themselves the terrific mayor they have now and several of the “great” members of the Sioux Falls councils, past and present.