UPDATE: Jo goes after Paul on Facebook. Paul calls it a ‘Nothing Burger’. What the heck is a ‘Nothing Burger’. Must be something the ‘Evengelist of Downtown’ serves at BBQ’s.

Like Huether, he says there is ‘nothing to see’ and kills the messenger.

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You know what they say, politicians will say almost anything to get your vote. Remember Mayor Huether as a candidate? He promised to be one of the most transparent mayors ever. I know, funny stuff 🙁

So when the Argus asks TenHaken a question about being involved with a trolling investigation, he says this;

TenHaken declined to comment for this story.

“In 2014, Click Rain was contracted by the Rounds for Senate campaign to dig into some libel/slander against various parties,” he said in an email. “I would be breaking my former client’s trust by commenting on your story.”

First off, you are no longer employed by Click Rain. Secondly, Rounds is elected public official, what’s the big secret? If you can’t even answer a simple question about this incident, how will your relationship be with the media when you are mayor? Probably like Mayor Huether’s. I have often thought of TenHaken as the Republican version of Mike Huether.

A few months ago I had my own little ‘doxing’ incident going on. Someone was commenting on my site and making disparaging comments about a city councilor. I know what you are thinking, myself as well as other anon commenters make those remarks everyday on my site. This was different though. The first suspicion I had was they were a new commenter. I often check the IP’s of new commenters. This one was different, the IP was linked to the city’s network. The comments were coming from a city owned computer during the middle of the morning and afternoon. I assumed it was a city employee making the comments. When this city councilor asked the city’s IT department what computer the IP was linked to they told them, “From the library’s public use computers.”

Yeah right.

I guess this commenter was so upset with this city councilor they went to the library in the middle of the morning, logged in and made the comments. And when they had to respond, they returned to the library almost 4 hours later to make more comments. But when they made even more comments later that night it came from a residential Midco IP. After the inquiry this ‘person’ stopped making comments altogether. Go figure. I did some research on my side, but without having access to the city’s network OR Midco’s it was nearly impossible for me to track the user. My concern wasn’t that a person was making these kind of comments, that is their 1st Amendment right. But it is a violation for a city employee to be making these comments about a councilor on city time, using city property, most likely ending in termination.

Back to Paul.

Cory brings up something I have known about Mr. TenHaken for a very long time;

And if nothing else, TenHaken’s involvement in the hyper-defensive Rounds campaign’s internal dirty tricks should dispel any misconception that TenHaken is just a nice nonpartisan guy looking to serve his city. He’s a long-time, well-connected Republican hack, a shade more technically adept but no less partisan than Pat Powers. His involvement in RINOMike-gate could show that, if he succeeds Mike Huether as mayor, he be just as brittle about criticism of his administration, and he’ll be willing to deploy his technical skills to root out his perceived enemies.

Besides the fact that he was trying to get the help of a public university to do his dirty work, it shows what lengths Mr. TenHaken will go through to bury enemies of his right-winger clients, ironically defending one of the most corrupt governors the State of South Dakota has ever had.

That could not have been an easy job.

10 Thoughts on “UPDATE: TenHaken promises transparency as mayor, but won’t answer questions about his previous involvement with Mike Rounds

  1. “CliqueRepublican”

    Where’s Jackley’s comment, too? Shouldn’t there be at least a preliminary investigation into DSU’s involvement in this affair based on this story as well?

  2. Given this “Dakota Analytica” story, maybe it is time for us to give the “Evangelist of Downtown” his own “mulligan,” or do only fellow fundamentalist get to do that?

  3. One of those anonymous Twitter accounts were making fun of a staffer’s disabled child during the campaign. Those kind of attacks are totally over the line and whoever was running those accounts deserved to be outed and shown for who they really are.

  4. l3wis on March 23, 2018 at 9:31 am said:

    MP – While it is despicable, there are NO laws against making fun of disabled children just like there are no laws against our president talking about grabbing pussies, however, there are laws against public universities helping with political campaigns.

  5. My Mistake Mike on March 23, 2018 at 9:48 am said:

    So Mike Rounds was a “victim of cyber-bullying”?!? That’s rich! Not a very Christian way to “take them down” either.

    And, by the way, you can’t libel or slander an elected official. The burden of proof is too high to make it plausible.

    It seems The Dutch Mafia needs to brush up on basic laws. Feels too much like MMM freaking out over ridicule on fake Twitter accounts.

  6. My Mistake Mike on March 23, 2018 at 11:50 am said:

    By the way, TenHaken is behind the phone poll that has Kenny Anderson so upset that he now has a paid Facebook post. It takes a special kind of person to piss off Kenny.

    The Dutch Mafia, indeed.

  7. Matt,

    Was the Twitter comment anything like this?…..:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXgjnBpxGI

    …..And remember that the “Evangelist of Downtown” gave Donald of Orange a “B” for performance as President at a recent mayoral forum too…. “Mulligans” and all…..

  8. While I agree, the comments made with those Twitter accounts were not cool, I don’t feel it’s appropriate for a potential elected official to get involved in doxxing. They chose to actually spend time doing this. It should have been handled in the courts if anything libelous occurred.

  9. Which begs the question, since they chose to stay out of the courts, as to what they planned to do once they identified the troller?…

    Where were these tactics learned?….. Certainly not at Dordt?…… How scary the “Mulligan Era” has become….

  10. look a squirell on March 24, 2018 at 5:05 am said:

    i fart in their elevator (((or church)))

    IaAl
    obg

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