Dakota Woman, Angie Buhl wants your vote
I actually agree with many of Angie’s campaign stances, I just find it a bit ironic that she actually believes she has a chance of winning. We have been down this road before. Epp and Powers have both ran for office and got beat – handily.
I have been encouraged to run for office in the past and turned it down for the obvious reasons, I’m a big mouth blogger, there is no way in Hell I could win, and I know it, especially with my entire political mantra only a google away.
When are bloggers going to realize they better serve the public in their pajamas then in the public square?
The difference is in the quality of the candidate and the inadequacy of the incumbent. Angie will be a welcome addition to Pierre.
Her views will never fly in that district. Didn’t My man Mike lose in that part of town? The smear campaign against him there worked.
Carmen – I agree with you, BUT, her extreme liberal views won’t fly.
If anyone thinks that Angie Buhl can’t win, they’re obviously not familiar with the landscape of District 15. I would recommend reviewing the outcomes of both abortion bans, medical marijuana, Amendment C, and Martha Vanderlinde’s primary race.
I dunno – more than anything this year, people want a candidate who’s willing to listen and willing to work. Seems like Angie’s doing both. Bloggers FTW!
Of course Angie is not the only blogger running (see William Anderson and Steve Hickey). Honestly, how many frequent primary voters read blogs or even know what they are? Maybe in a congressional race where the candidates can afford to run non-stop commercials with excerpts, it would matter. Will being a blogger become an issue in any of these races in the next 14 days? Unlikely.
Agree or disagree her positions are way out of line with the make up of the district. She has become a major pain in the butt and showed a great work ethic but too little too late!
Hey, I would love it if Angie won, I’m not a fan of Miles. But there is a huge difference between her race with Miles and the race that Vanderlinde was in.
I guess I wasn’t aware that DL and John were political scientists with expertise in District 15.
A blogger? You are going to sum up Angie’s activism by saying she is just a blogger? Angie has made a successful career out of grassroots activism and is vice president of the South Dakota Young Democrats. Thats a real committment to change, change that her district is more than ready for!
Dist 15 is easy. Looking at voter history, people who have won there in the past and basic demographics it’s not rocket science.
It is like being an independent democrat for Governor in SD with a platform of a corp and personal income tax, trial lawyer, pro-choice, gun registration, and same sex marriage. How far do you think that candidate will get.
I don’t understand people who have very strong ideology- they refuse to look at basic facts.
Evidently it’s not that easy, because you’re wrong. I’m not going to waste my time going into all the reasons why that’s so because I’m busy helping a *winning* campaign, but I’ve already highlighted ample numerical support to combat your conservative issue claim of the district and I’d add that there haven’t been any ‘liberal’ Democrats that have run in a very long time (and the one who did SLAUGHTERED in her primary against super conservative DINOs).
Believe whatever you want, but I’d defer to the facts if I were you.
It is so easy to get you ‘girls’ worked up.
That’s the problem with fanatics. They can’t step out of their sit to see the whole picture. I luv the passion and commitment I would rather just do what it takes to win. I don’t have time to chase windmills.
Anytime someone uses the “I’m not going to waste my time” line to someone who could be a potential voter…. it doesn’t bode well for their campaign.
I don’t know a damn thing about district 15, but I’d say a little less attitude and a little more humility would probably appeal to a wide variety of voters.
I found the DINO comment more offensive. Even if someone is wrong on one of my issues they are right on many more than someone from the other party.
And by the way I think DL made the point that it wasn’t that Angie is “wrong” just it will be a very difficult to get elected in that district with her positions. I did not say I agreed with her not. Just making a political observation.
When I drive through the dist. I see many more signs from Miles. I was just making a prediction. Sorry it was too close to home for some.
“A blogger? You are going to sum up Angie’s activism by saying she is just a blogger? Angie has made a successful career out of grassroots activism and is vice president of the South Dakota Young Democrats.”
Whoopie Shit. I’m not a Democrat or a Republican, I am, however a citizen of the US of A. How does being a democrat qualify her from making hot dogs at Senior Wiener or Running a blog? You Party-Farty hooligans need to figure something out. Government, which is funded by citizens , needs to service citizens. That’s it.
I guess I didn’t think that presenting facts was such a fanatical act, but clearly I’m mistaken. I guess I just need to “step out of [my] sit to see the whole picture.”
How did I know the same old tired group of ladies would come out of the woodwork defending Angie’s candidacy (even though I was not attacking it). Even though you claim that I can’t predict much here, funny how I predicted how predictable you all are. That being said, I hope Angie wins, but as history has proven, the prospects are not so great.
Good luck Angie. Lots of Bloggers have went on to hold office, hopefully she is one of them.
Pass the popcorn, please.
JR- What other bloggers have won office? Just Curious.
L3wis maybe I over spoke. I don’t know of any in SD, but it seemed like it was a big story in elections past that bloggers were running for local offices. I remember some of them winning but it was all local offices so I don’t remember the names.
You should run L3wis. I’ll help you scrub SouthDacola.
I guess I am confused about the logic that Angie’s views are somehow “out of touch” with the most Democratic, most progressive district in Sioux Falls. District 15 voted for John Kerry, Barack Obama, Johnson (multiple times), Daschle (multiple times), Herseth (every time she has run – including when people were convinced she was a crazy radical feminist), for virtually every Democratic candidate for statewide office (even Volesky almost won 15), against the gay marriage ban, against the abortion ban (twice), and in favor of medical marijuana. As far as candidates go, anyone with a D behind their name is golden in 15 – I’ve heard it described by a longtime activist in 15 as the “Democratic Holy Land.” Kathy Miles is well aware of this and has slid by because of it for a long time. I think the evidence in favor of people in 15 being not only Democrats but also fairly liberal is pretty overwhelming. I am not saying that someone with my (or Angie’s) views wouldn’t be out of the mainstream in certain parts of the state – but district 15 isn’t like a lot of the rest of South Dakota. It doesn’t surprise me that Staaggers won in 15 – he was their city councilman for quite some time.
John, like you, I’ve also noticed more Miles signs around 15. However, most of those signs are on rental properties (so they’re reflecting the opinion of the landlord rather than the tenants who actually live in the district and can vote) or on the property of Republicans who aren’t eligible to vote in this election in the first place (I highly doubt the Unruhs will be voting in the Democratic primary). You have to keep in mind that over half of the residences in 15 are rentals – when I lived in 15, I had signs for John Thune and the Yes on 6 nuts in my front yard. Additionally, and probably most importantly, signs don’t vote. If they did, there would be an abortion ban, and that woman who owned Wild Water West would be a city commissioner.
With all that said, I have no idea if Angie is going to win or not. Obviously, no one will know that until election night. I do know that she’s outworked Kathy Miles in virtually any way you could use to measure such a thing. If that’s enough to overcome the advantages of being a fairly well-known incumbent – I guess we’ll find out. I hope it is.
I think it has little to do with political affiliation. It has to do with what kind of people live in District 15. That is why Staggers has always done well there. You are making the assumption that dems are shoe-ins in district 15 because they are dems, but that may not be the case at all. I think Vanderlinde won because she relates with the people of the district.
As for the blogger comments, I was just pointing out the obvious. Bloggers don’t have a very good track record for winning office. That isn’t a judgement, that’s a fact.
I’d disagree – when was the last time a Republican candidate won in a partisan race in District 15? It’s been an awfully long time, at least not since 2000 when my neighborhood was moved from District 12 to District 15. The district was designed specifically to put a bunch of the heavily Democratic precincts in Sioux Falls in one district – my precinct got moved because it was the reason that John MacIntyre won his state senate race in 12 back in the 90s and early 00s.
I think Martha Vanderlinde was also helped by the fact that her mother was a representative from District 15 in the 90s. People were familiar with the name, and that means a lot. (Her mother, incidentally, worked as a nurse at Buck Williams’ clinic – so much for pro-choice people being out of touch with the district.)
I still disagree. How can a conservative, libertarian, Republican like Staggers get support in District 15? Because he shares many of the same views as Vanderlinde. Party affiliation has nothing to do with it. We already had to put up with partisan bullshit from Huether (yes, he started it) we don’t need any more of the ‘I’m a Democrat, vote for me.’
I am finally looking at the city election returns vs. legislative election returns, and Staggers only won one precinct in what is legislative district 15 in the runoff, that being the Minnehaha Co. Admin Building, with the lowest number of voters. He won all of them in the first go-around, but none by a huge margin. I am not sure he has a ton of supporters in the district, at least not for his mayoral ambitions.
Mike’s day is coming, and you can say whatever about that. But Kermit has way more in common with District 15 democrats then Mike Huether will ever have.