The SD Democratic Party got clever with some video Cameraman Bruce shot. Thanks for sharing! The irony is how these same folks (Republican Lawmakers) are all of sudden constitutional scholars when repealing IM 22, but they can’t answer questions about simple bills on the docket for a cracker barrel.
STOP I tell you, stop! If you don’t stop clapping and shouting we’ll take away your coffee! Wonder how old the coffee was anyway, but that’s another story.
IM-22 and the 36% rate cap were to be expected but we did get to hear about the crazy legislation being pushed through.
Did you ever go to a gathering where the air leaves the room for a moment? The Saturday, February 11, 2017 Sioux Falls SD Legislative Coffee and Crackerbarrel at the Ramada Inn was filled with people not happy with what they were hearing. Several times during the event the moderator had to admonish the crowd to not clap, shout, laugh or join in. What a killjoy. The people want to be heard.
One thing of note, after last week’s performances the legislators answered more of the questions without researching the questions on their computers.
We were often reminded, our part was to sit quietly so the legislators on the dais could make some pretty dumb statements. They did not disappoint. Fred Flintstone would not have been happy with a few of the comments made.
In one of the funnier moments of the Legislative Coffee today, Representative Jensen, in defense of teaching creationism in science class, said that science changes all the time, he said for instance, scientists have determined that Brontosaurus’ didn’t really exist.
Just like their kooky idea to teach religious ideas in public schools they are wrong about the Bront;
The Brontosaurus really did exist, scientists have decided, ending a debate which has rumbled on for more than 100 years,
The huge dinosaur was discovered in the 1870s, but by 1903 palaeontologists ruled the fossil remains were actually from an Apatosaurus.
However a new statistical analysis of the fossils by Oxford University has seen the dinosaur resurrected. Scientists have ruled that it is unique and should have its own genus.
“The differences we found between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were at least as numerous as the ones between other closely related genera, and much more than what you normally find between species,†said Dr Roger Benson, a co-author from the University of Oxford.
Yabba, Dabba, Doo.
He nails it with this statement about the repeal of IM 22;
The manner in which HB 1069 was passed was disgraceful, and a “dark day†as Sen. Lance Russell (R-Hot Springs) appropriately lamented. Politicians claimed there is no corruption in S.D., in support of their rush to pass HB 1069. The EB-5 corruption and death of Richard Benda; the Gear Up corruption and deaths of Scott, Nicole, Michael, Connor, Jaeci and Kailey Westerhuis; the recent scandal of a two-year legislative cover-up of a legislator sexually preying on pages and interns; and, the same legislators repealing the will of the voters in such a corrupt fashion, refute those assertions upon utterance.
And this blogger seems to be proud he sent his daughter to this sex starved snake pit.
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