One of the reasons I don’t pay much attention to other blogs or even local news is because they either just let great stories go or don’t report about stuff for months after it happened.
I pointed out in February that Hansen was likely lining his pockets from the anti-choice movement. Well Pitty finally woke up and said something about it. As for the rest of the media, they will likely not say anything.
I remember recently a person called me frantically to tell me about a city controversy and I replied, “That happened 2 years ago.” And they were like, “Where was the news reports, besides your blog?” I replied, “We have local news? Could have fooled me.”
Also the local yocals tend to stay away from any story that could be perceived as controversial. Well guess what? Government corruption is controversial, but it doesn’t get fixed by covering it up.
For example, one reporter decided to just blow off that councilor Marshall Selberg was illegally living out of his district. Another reporter decided to alert the School District about perjured campaign forms instead of doing an investigative story about how it happened.
Jodi recently wrote about the disengagement of folks. She touched on many things I agree with and some things I disagree with. I think one of the main reasons people have become disengaged so quickly over the past few years is 1) The lack of quality journalism and journalists in our community. 2) Folks are working their asses off trying to keep up with inflation. Peeps don’t have time to read the news when they are slaving away.
It’s all because of the destruction of the American middle class. The once American middle class offered a hope and a positive kinetic energy for our democracy, that was spurred by the reality and understanding of what it was like to be poor and to not want to be poor, and how to get out of poverty, to be unempowered, but to want to be empowered. Today, the emergence of an upper middle-income class – that is bigger than it once was – has not brought us all into the fold, but has rather left many of us with a political society which increasingly is becoming less engaged due to the lack of empowerment, or the confidence of probable empowerment. This societal reality, or political reality, is mainly to be blamed on the results after 40 years of a Reaganistic tax structure and the brutal results of NAFTA itself, which together have fostered a disenfranchisement for most and/or the destruction of dreams of a future empowerment for the many, which are the true cogs of a truly vibrant democracy.
I’ve been giving you hints for topics in some of the comments I’ve been providing. You should look into them more ?
Anon comments about random stuff I am already aware of doesn’t really qualify. I tell people if you want me to dig around you have to be a source, not anon, and you need to give me concrete evidence that it is going on. Many things you have said I am aware, if you want to give more deets, great, email them to me with your real name, thanks
Pat only brought this to fore because Harding Hoover progressives were defeated in the recent primary election. Anti-choice PAC money was used in the effort to unseat them. Alleged ‘R’ on ‘R’ crime.
Schoenbeck crying that incumbents registered as ‘R’ got kneecapped by an effort mounted by PAC money from other ‘R’s? Such irony! Rich, indeed! Lee gets some of his own medicine and whines on Pat’s blog about it. Just desserts.
Sadly, the “Pro-Life” industry is just one giant grift playing off people’s emotions. For example, take a look at the Alpha Center’s 990 and the six-figure salary that Leslee Unruh pays herself annually from her non-profit business. It’s all out there, but the followers choose not to see it.
I do not understand the narrative that Jon Hansen is so called “Anti-Choice”. He supports a woman’s right to consent to abortion, but at the same time, he supports the Rights of the Unborn Babies S.D Codified Law does not punish women at all for consenting to an abortion, it places fines, penalties, and sanctions on any Hospital, Health Clinic, Doctor, Nurse, Councilor, that allows for an abortion where it violates the ‘procedure’ in procuring an abortion. You people may need to actually ‘read’ codified Law to better understand what it does, and does not do. There is no effective “ban” in South Dakota codified law, and if the doctors follow the law as written, you would learn a woman’s right to abortion is well protected in South Dakota as long as the rights of both the woman and unborn are protected.
As for most of our ‘stance’ on the proposed Abortion Amendment, we are actively lobbying voters to educate themselves on our law, on the amendment, and on the situation, encouraging them to NOT sign the Petition. This is NOT anti-choice, this is merely, good stewardship, educating people to NOT support, nor sign a petition they may not fully support, nor want to see go on a public ballot. I refused to sign the petition, and feel the best path forward is to amend current law itself.
As a precinct committeeman, representing people of my precinct in the Republican party, I make every step possible to inform, educate, and help the voters best understand statewide policies, laws, let alone future initiatives, resolutions, and candidates, by holding get togethers, town halls, to managing my own website.
Sincerely,
Mike Zitterich
Minnehaha County,
Precinct Committee
“Better Representation”
Had to laugh when the Dakota Scab claimed that Powers broke the story. LOL. Well at least I can read the DS for public notices 🙁 Maybe it won’t take 5 months to break the story.
We always refer to it as the Dakota Bigot. Did Hanson help finance this venture besides helping out Sneve?