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EB-5 isn’t Rounds’ first Scandalous Rodeo

l3wis September 9, 2014 5Comments

He was lying 8 years ago, and he keeps lying today.

While things in the EB-5 world are heating up for Rounds (signing off on SDRC’s contract and now the Brown County Commission asking for a banking commission investigation) the stonewalling at Dakota Wuss College continues, and of course the lying (Wadhams claiming Kathy Tyler had a secret meeting with Brendan Johnson when all she said is that she talked to him, kind of like when I waited on him a couple of months ago and I asked him what he would like to drink, does our beverage conversation count as a secret conversation? I think he said something like, â€œI’ll take a merlot, and did you know, Rounds is guilty as Hell.â€ (snarc)

The lies get more ridiculous by the day, I hope they are paying BK Jr. good to purport all those lies on his â€˜blog’. Pat really should have taken some lessons from the original fake political blogger, Jon Lauck.

But enough of those yahoos.

I wanted to remind everyone of all the other scandals Rounds was involved with while serving as governor, some of you have short memories;

Using his gigantic fleet of state owned airplanes for personal use, then paying the fuel bill from the Governor’s club fund â€˜after’ he was busted. It was so scandalous at the time, Professor Reynold Nesiba got it on the ballot to limit Rounds’ travels, and the good people of SD agreed.

Increased the FTE’s by over a thousand during his short tenure, giving many jobs to family members and family members of campaign contributors.

No bid contracts to campaign contributors. Just call Scott Lawrence over at Lawrence and Schiller, he will explain it all to you, or maybe his dad can, you know, Craig Lawrence, the guy running the State GOP now.

Elkpoint / Hyperion fiasco. That has so many layers, don’t even know where to begin. How is that project going by the way? And how much state tax dollars were wasted?

Millions in subsidies to TransCanada, that they didn’t need or ask for.

Taking public education funding in SD back to the stone age (remember, one of Rounds’ objectives is to get rid of the Federal Department of Education as senator).

I could go on, but you get the gist. Why on earth any South Dakotan would want to send this crook to Washington is beyond me. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have 100% confidence in Weiland or even Pressler as our next Senator, but I will say this about the two gentlemen, one was honored for his integrity and the other wants to fix healthcare by offering a public Medicare option, which is what the ACA should have offered from the freaking beginning.

All we will get with Marion Mike Rounds is more scandals, afterall, this is a guy who doesn’t even use his first name. Even Alice Cooper has more integrity then that.

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SD Senate Debate

l3wis August 20, 2014 5Comments

Just watched the US Senate debate, got a good laugh at all the BS that comes out of Rounds mouth. He said he wants to shut downÂ the EPA, the Federal Department of Education and revoke Medicare.

So I guess if we send him to Washington, he will make sure we are dumb, sick and living in an environmental wasteland. Sounds like a winning campaign platform to me.

Below, the Myers team demonstrating at Dakotafest how the Benda suicide took place according to an unnamed source. I guess the barrel of the gun was 18″ from his stomach. That is one heck of a stick he needed to push the trigger.

Daugaard Rounds

If a man shoots himself in the stomach using a branch in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, is Denny and Marion still guilty of ignorance?

l3wis April 21, 2014 6Comments

More EB-5 fun times;

Of the documents released by USCIS, the most surprising relate to the TransCanada project. Bollen made the initial application in May 2011 to include TransCanada as a qualifying EB-5 project.

By that time, Gov. Dennis Daugaard had been in office five months. Benda, who had not been retained by Daugaard as a Cabinet secretary, had gone to work for Bollen and SDRC.

Tony Venhuizen, Daugaard’s director of policy and communications, said state officials didn’t learn until more than two years later â€” last summer â€” that Bollen had applied with the USCIS to supply EB-5 financing to Trans-Canada. By then, state and federal officials were investigating the state’s program.

“He told them he wanted to get into the pipeline business,” Venhuizen said, saying the TransCanada information was a surprise.

But one thing the state officials said they didn’t learn until questioned last week by the Argus Leader was that Bollen also was trying to expand SDRC’s service area into Montana and Nebraska.

“That was not a detail that he mentioned,” Venhuizen said.

I love how the current administration and the Rounds administration act like Benda and Bollen were just working alone, because, you know, like the governor doesn’t have time to monitor millions of dollars in economic development money. I could just hear Denny and Marion having the conversation as Marion was leaving office, “Yeah, Dennis, really not sure what Benda and the boys are doing up in the ED office, but you can trust them, they are really good at managing themselves, heck, they never ask for my assistance ever, sometimes it will be months before I even talk to them.” Dennis responds, “Cool, it is kind of how I handled fostering native children out to white foster families. Once they left Children’s Home Society, and you cut us a check, I was pretty much hands off, guess you can’t say that about Mr. Mette . . .”

Cartoon Rounds

I know NOT’ING!

l3wis November 30, 2013 5Comments

Rounds

Gordon Howie drops a bomb

l3wis November 21, 2013 12Comments

Wow! This is interesting;

From sources high in the South Dakota Republican leadership camp, the message is a real political bombshell.

We have been told that Mike Rounds will withdraw from the US Senate race in Decemberâ€¦

due toÂ investigations currently underway.Â Details were sketchy, but the assertion is that theÂ EB-5 programÂ investigations are getting too hot for former Governor, now Senate candidate Mike Rounds.

That might explain why Rounds has been conspicuously absent from nearly all of the joint appearances of the candidates.

We are also told that current US Congresswoman Kristi Noem will enter

Okay, Howie isn’t exactly the best source for this news, but it certainly an interesting theory.

EB-5 isn’t Rounds’ first Scandalous Rodeo

SD Senate Debate

If a man shoots himself in the stomach using a branch in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, is Denny and Marion still guilty of ignorance?

I know NOT’ING!

Gordon Howie drops a bomb

From sources high in the South Dakota Republican leadership camp, the message is a real political bombshell.

We have been told that Mike Rounds will withdraw from the US Senate race in Decemberâ€¦

due toÂ investigations currently underway.Â Details were sketchy, but the assertion is that theÂ EB-5 programÂ investigations are getting too hot for former Governor, now Senate candidate Mike Rounds.

That might explain why Rounds has been conspicuously absent from nearly all of the joint appearances of the candidates.

We are also told that current US Congresswoman Kristi Noem will enter

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