KELO: Sutton thing to drag on yet another week....
The dark cloud hanging over the Senate is going to hang around for a while according to KELO:
A court hearing that had been scheduled for Friday in the Dan Sutton case has been delayed a week.Read it all here. Can we just get this over with at this point? I'm as anxious to hear about it as the next person, but it's already been this dark cloud hanging over session. Another week does not do the institution any good.
Lawyers for the state Senate and for Sutton were to meet in the Moody County Courthouse in Flandreau tomorrow, but after a telephone conference call yesterday, the hearing is being delayed until January 26th.
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For some reason the Argus feels need to update this story every 5 minutes on their website. Is there really nothing else going on at our capitol??
I know our legislators work hard for us, so give them some credit besides talking about the same story (abortion, Sutton, or whatever) over, and over, and over, and over, and over.
If charges are filed and he is convicted, then remove him from office by all means. However until then it's all rumor isn't it?
It's my understanding that the Senate is going to consider whether or not he broke Senate rules by not reporting that he was being investigated for an alleged criminal act. There might be more to it than that, but it would seem like they would have the right to take a look at that for sure.
Anybody else know?
I'm guessing that there was a lot of scampering behind the (Sutton) scenes to keep this quiet as long as possible, which may be why we didn't hear about until months after the fact. Remember last fall when the story broke and the senate conveyed that they hadn't heard about it until the rest of us did? (I for one don't believe that but that was the claim).
As for an ongoing investigation...Larry Long made an interesting statement during a recent interview. When asked about the Sutton case, he said that it's his policy not to comment on any ongoing investigation. Read between THOSE lines...