September 2021

Noem tries to escape her Controversies by going to California

So this popped up yesterday on a Right Winger gossipy website;

Multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is having an extramarital affair with adviser Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as a campaign manager for Donald Trump. The alleged fling reportedly has continued for months, sources say

Trust me, I didn’t gasp when I read it. This ‘rumor’ has been floating around the statehouse and Pierre for over a year. I would just like to know who the sources were? A disgruntled former Noem employee? A state legislator(s)?


Of course Noem denies it (alright Bill Clinton);


“total garbage and a disgusting lie”


It could be a lie for all we know. So I challenge Noem to sue them for slander. If it is NOT true, prove it to a judge. Pressler won a similar suit when he was accused of being gay.

Whether it is true or not, I could care less about Noem’s sex life. This is an obvious attempt by some conservatives across the country to discount Noem as a presidential candidate, which is funny, because I thought you had to be a known cheater before you were granted the nomination in either party. If I were these wingnut dissenters, I wouldn’t be too worried.

Watching her interview on Newsmax last night was enough to prove she doesn’t have what it takes to be president. In her 50 minute interview she lied about Reagan helping farmers (he destroyed small family farms and the middle class), lied about her death taxes (she has received millions in federal farm subsidies), lied about Covid Mandates in the state (several communities across SD had mandates) lied about the Reservations smuggling drugs for the Mexican Cartel (yet uses our tax dollars to sue the voters over passing Rec MJ) and lied about all the Freedom we have in South Dakota because we believe in God and have Faith. I know, Batty stuff.

What I found ironic is that Noem probably spent tax dollars to fly to California to do a LIVE town hall. Why can’t SDPTV host a live Townhall, right here in South Dakota? Well the answer was obvious. NO ONE asked any questions that were controversial. Like why is she asking Ravnsborg to resign or why she used tax dollars to silence a whistle blower.

I don’t entirely blame Noem for all the issues in our state. This is what happens when you have one party rule for over 50 years, nothing gets done for the people because there is NO bi-partisan discussions on laws. I had to laugh this morning when people were calling into Belfrage’s show defending Noem for firing the appraiser director. Many people called about how the appraisers in South Dakota are corrupt and in cahoots with the realtors. GET OUT! They also believed that Noem could fix it. BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Do you really think the SD GOP who consists mostly of realtors and land dealers are going to fix a system that is rigged for them? You truly are naïve.

I’ll say the same thing about Noem as I say about Trump. I knew what I was getting when both of them were elected, but what baffles me is how people consistently defend their immense stupidity and lies.

UPDATE: The RR Redevelopment Area just might fill up after all

UPDATE: My suspicions were correct. I guess the city has already denied a purchase agreement with this guy, and he was trying another approach by going through the media. The rumor was it was denied because the developer doesn’t roll with the developer welfare queens the city normally gives these projects to. I wondered why this wasn’t in SF Bizzo. This from the city;

Yesterday you received a packet from Thomas Development with their proposal for the railyard sites south of 8th Street (Parcels D & E), which is highly irregular as the process does not ask them to send their proposal to everyone and most developers would not want their plans made public.  Unbeknown to us they also sent a press release to the Argus Leader, https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2021/09/28/sioux-falls-developer-proposes-more-than-200-affordable-apartments-housing-downtown/5906625001/  which is totally outside the normal process we would expect. 

As I have mentioned in different meetings with each of you, we have two other parties who are planning to make an offer on this site as well.  Under our negotiated sale process they have been notified and we expect to see their proposals toward the end of October.  Just wanted to let you know that the process undertaken by Thomas Development was a total surprise to everyone and does not indicate that we are doing anything other than receiving their proposal at this time.

Thank you and please let me know if you have any questions.

Jeff Eckhoff Director, Planning and Development Services

The 8th & Railroad building is to the Right of the Development

While this isn’t ‘affordable housing’ it does fit into the ‘workforce housing’ category;

If approved, the proposal calls for 54 studio apartments, 104 one-bedroom apartments and 58 two-bedroom apartments, with rents ranging from $795 to $1,005.

I couldn’t find out too much background information on the developer, Tom Andrews, but he has done housing developments like this all over the country. We will see what kind of tax incentives he looks for, either in discretionary, TIFs or a discount on the land like the development across the street got. If he asks for none of these things, I will personally thank him to his face for embracing the free market. But I’m not holding my breath.

Should Noem be Impeached?

Caught Again!

It seems Cory and I were thinking the same thing when the news hit today;

Maybe the Legislature will make its impeachment Special Session a two-fer….

We will get to that in a moment.

From the AP Story (yes, folks, NO ONE in our state or local media uncovered this, it was the AP that had to break the story, so sad) there was one quote that stood out;

While Peters was applying for the certification, Noem should have recused herself from discussions on the agency, especially any that would apply to her daughter’s application, said Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who was the chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush.

“It’s clearly a conflict of interest and an abuse of power for the benefit of a family member,” he said.

For a moment though, let’s move past the abuse of power, the nepotism, the corruption and the conflicts. That’s everyday business for the SD GOP, let’s focus on the possible impeachable offenses;

Bren filed her age discrimination complaint at the end of December and, three months later, received the $200,000 settlement agreement to withdraw the complaint and leave her job. When asked about Bren, Hultman declined to discuss “the specifics of personnel decisions.”

It’s the use of tax payer resources to silence a whistle-blower that makes this egregious. Forget about the spoiled brats Noem raised and the hillbilly authoritarianism that comes when dumb hicks attain power, that crap has been going on for 50 years in Pierre.

But the spending of our money to cover her tracks is faintly hypocritical considering she beat Jackboots in the primary by exposing his own cover-up and the settlement paid out to a DCI agent he tried to silence.

Yeah, we are starting to see a pattern here.

We all know Noem will walk away from this unscathed and nothing will happen and probably the reason our local media just lets out a big yawn anymore when it comes to government corruption in our state.

More Sioux Falls City Council Race Gossip

I got some more news on the council races.

In Central District I asked Tom Hulbert over the weekend if he was going to run for Central. While he didn’t say he will, he certainly hasn’t ruled it out. So that’s good.

In the one At-Large that currently has the incumbent Brekke it sounds like they found a challenger from the medical sector (not sure what they do or if they are retired.)

But the big gossip is that they found another puppet like CountCilor Jensen to run for Erickson’s At-Large empty seat besides the possibility of Zach DeBoer. Supposedly the candidate will have the full-force of the mayor’s connections (and money) behind them and they come from the non-profit world.

This of course is NO surprise to me. I always new Poops and Crew would put up another Pooppet candidate for that seat.

I guess these candidates will be announcing soon. I’ll be polishing my campaign wrecking ball in the meantime.