Congrats Bonita Schwan!
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You may remember Bonita, she fought against Shape Places and ran for city council in Sioux Falls. She now lives on Marco Island in Florida. There was 6 people running for city council with 4 open seats, all at-large. The two incumbents lost and Bonita came in 3rd place!
BAFFLING ELECTION!
The Trump win was NOT a surprise. Harris ran for president for 107 days and Trump for 10 years. All the indicators were there that she did not have a clear path. I am going to try to keep a clear mind about his term and take it one day at a time. I’m not going to predict darkness, because sometimes those things happen organically 🙂 I do feel sorry for women and immigrants. At least we can drive to Minnesota in 20 minutes!
As for the ballot measures I saw a shift over the past week in sentiment. While I thought the gender thingy in the constitution would pass I was shocked it went down in flames. As a retired female politician said to me recently, “The state constitution hasn’t prevented me from serving the public, I’m voting no.”
I assumed the referred law 21 would go down. Anytime the citizens of SD have a chance to vote down legislation they do. I’m glad because even though I am a tree hugger, I think carbon capture is a farce and makes no sense.
I figured MJ would go down. It was one of the most poorly written ballot measures in state history! So you are allowed to HAVE some of the golden nuggs but you can’t buy it anywhere. WTF? So stupid.
I was surprised by the food tax and abortion, I thought both would pass by a narrow margin. The scare tactics worked. While I voted to eliminate the food tax because I think it is immoral to tax food, I am not disappointed it failed. I told everyone if this passes they will just jack up the retail tax rate on everything else which would actually hurt low income people even more since most of them don’t pay taxes on food anyway (giveaways and SNAP). Even if Abortion would have passed the SD Supreme Court would have thrown it out.
I figured Amendment H would fail, it was to confusing to voters. I supported it, but barely, I think it would have eliminated the SD Dem party. But as an Indy, I get tired of the parties controlling everything. I really think our country needs to move to a non-partisan system.
Most of the ballot measures were poorly written and were NOT 100% ready to be implemented. Almost every measure would have to go thru the legislature to be ‘adjusted’. That is a piss poor way to write these measures, they failed mostly because of the horrible language.
I’m willing to give Trump a chance, because I don’t really have choice. I tell my never Trumpers, take a deep breath and stay patient and queue the circus music! Hopefully the Dems take Congress so we can stop some of the nuttiness, but that also means NOTHING will get done over the next 4 years! Oh, and Ukrainians will need to learn Russian and the Palestinians, Hebrew. You can kiss the ‘two state solution’ goodbye.
