Hot off the press - SDFU: Frank is OUT
SDFU Board of Directors remove Kloucek from District Post
Sombke: "We have the responsibility to police our own ranks."
HURON – In a vote today (Monday), the S.D. Farmers Union Board of Directors voted to remove Frank Kloucek from its board of directors.
Doug Sombke, Conde, president of S.D. Farmers Union, said the board removed Frank Kloucek in a special teleconference meeting which had been convened after Kloucek, a state senator from Scotland, sent an email that attacked the organization and its involvement in promoting the Ridgefield Premium Hereford Beef project. Sombke said the vote followed a brief discussion of the publication and related issues.
"Our objective is to uphold the good name of South Dakota Farmers Union and to assure the public that we agree that the statements in Mr. Kloucek’s letter are damaging and wrong," Sombke said. "At Farmers Union, we have standards we expect of our leadership. We also have the responsibility to police our own ranks when a member of the leadership steps this far out of the bounds of good taste and judgment and damages the reputation and integrity of Farmers Union."
Sombke said he would not comment further about the vote. Sombke said he would not normally have issued a press release announcing the expulsion of a board member, however, Kloucek’s history of using press releases and public statements to attack opponents dictated that a press release was needed.
"Senator Kloucek has a right as an American to speak his mind within reason. But service on the Farmers Union Board of Directors is not a right, it is a privilege," Sombke said. "When an officer violates fundamental standards and inflicts harm on our organization, we have a responsibility to the membership to remove that privilege to serve on our board."
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I would hope that Sen. Kloucek could learn when you disagree with someone, there are proper ways to reveal this disagreement. We are all South Dakotans, and a little common curtosey goes a long way.
Any of you who are not in the Farmers Union family: Frank represents a very slim amount of the 4,500 farm families in SD Farmers Union.
But what is interesting is what Frank knew. What really was happening at these page parties? Or better yet, what was going on at these intern parties? What happens in Pierre, stays in Pierre??? Who else knew this, or better yet, who else attended these parties? Oh Mercer, where are you?
Well hopefully with Frank’s latest example of brilliance, I hope the good people of his district decide to send him to the unemployment line. But before he goes, what will he tell? With being kicked off the SDFU board, will Frank take issue with them? As the old saying goes, “If you want to know what someone really thinks of you, or knows about you, just piss them off!”
don't blame the cap journal. they only printed what kloucek wrote to leaders and reporters.
how long will scott h. and the dems want to keep a gossip spinner like frankie the k in their midst?
you know what they say about pettin' the rabid dawg? if you want to keep pettin' it, don't ask why you keep gettin' bit!
Whether or not members of the legislature provide INTERNS with alcohol is entirely different than providing PAGES with alcohol.
I believe Frank wrote about Sutton (or the hospitality room committee) supplying alcohol to INTERNS, not pages. Actually, I believe Frank on this point.
9:08 We are getting closer to the truth but we are not quite there yet. Frank never said that he suspected Sutton was buying alcohol for anyone. He said that Sutton was letting the interns out eariler then Frank would have liked and that the interns were drinking on thier own. Even if the interns are over 21, there is a difference here and it needs to be pointed out.
That says a lot!
Republicans are the party of high moral values and so are the interns that work for them!
The proof is right in front of you! So now what do you say!
It sure is embarrassing when the dead tree media (Argus) is late by five days.
I would cancel my subscription to the Argus if I had one. What good is a news source that is five days late?