Do something that actually helps the children of our state.

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I would like to congratulate Kevin Killer, Martha Vanderlinde and Scott Heidepriem on their victories last night. They all are good people and will represent our state well. Kevin and Martha are very progressive minded people, and they will bring a fresh and LIBERAL perspective to the State Legislature, which we desperately need.

I would also like to thank all the people who voted NO on 11. It was an unconstitional, intrusive law. The morality police need to let this one drop. If they are concerned about children, I suggest they ADOPT a lower income family in this state and buy their groceries for a year or help serve food at the Banquet. Do something to actually help the disadvantaged kids that already born and alive in our state.

I think about all the good that $3 million dollars spent on both campaigns could have done for  the hungry children in our state, and just makes me shake my head.

I propose two new initiatives for the next election cycle.

1)      Eliminate the food tax (something that actually does more good for ALL the children of the state)

2)      Ban the Unruhs from the legislative/initiative process, or better yet, from the state (and take Janklow with you).

 

In Defense of Martha Vanderlinde

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The Gargoyle Leader has started their endorsement process, or as like to call it – The Kiss of Death. Today they talked about District 15.  While they endorsed Kathy Miles for Senate they stayed on the fence about the House seat and had this to say about Martha;

To be effective, Vanderlinde will have to tone down the left-leaning rhetoric to be effective in a state House that is virtually always Republican-dominated.

Left-leaning rhetoric? Well, not sure if the AL was paying attention to the primaries, but Martha kicked ass and took names, apparently her district likes her views, left-leaning or not. When serving in Pierre you should be representing the views of your district not the views of the party elite, like the AL is suggesting. Sure, Martha will have to cross the aisle once in awhile to get things done, but I would prefer her to vote NO then to rubberstamp legislation that doesn’t represent the things that are important to her district. Once again the AL has shown how out of touch they are with the citizens of the community they are supposed to be serving. You may call Martha’s views left-leaning, I call them spot on.

I also see the AL will endorse a presidential candidate on Sunday – let me guess – John McCain.