Mayoral Candidate Tom Johnson was a passenger in vehicle of campaign worker. Except the campaign worker got busted for DUI. While dressed as a woman.
Here's the bizarre stuff I mentioned last night from Kevin Woster at the Rapid City Journal:
I'm sorry, didn't you know? Everyone puts their signs up the night before the election. Darn us for thinking something else.
Oooooookay...... If Tom couldn't figure out if his campaign worker - whom he was in the car with - wasn't #1, a man dressed as a woman, and #2, drunk, then maybe it's a really, really good thing that he lost the mayoral contest.
But you know, it might not have been what it appears at all. They might not have been putting out signs. It could have been a tryout for Tom's production of La Cage Aux Folles.
Or they could have been going to the local showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Everyone knows you have to have some alcohol to get on stage to start dancing "the time warp"in drag.
Really, officer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
An 18-year-old Rapid City man faces charges of underage consumption and driving under the influence after a traffic stop early Tuesday morning that involved Rapid City alderman Tom Johnson.Read it all here.
Rapid City Police Chief Craig Tieszen said Tuesday evening that a city police officer stopped the vehicle about 1:15 a.m. for erratic driving and malfunctioning tail lights. The driver of Johnson's car "was dressed like and appeared to be a woman" but was eventually identified as a man, Tieszen said.
Tieszen said the driver initially gave a woman's name but then provided a man's name.
"As far as we know, (he) is legally a man," Tieszen said.
and...
"She was driving the car, and I was putting out signs. That's exactly right," Johnson said. "Campaign people put up a lot of signs before an election."
Johnson said he wasn't aware that the person, whom he knew as Trina Sivera, was actually a man, nor did he know the driver had been drinking.
I'm sorry, didn't you know? Everyone puts their signs up the night before the election. Darn us for thinking something else.
Oooooookay...... If Tom couldn't figure out if his campaign worker - whom he was in the car with - wasn't #1, a man dressed as a woman, and #2, drunk, then maybe it's a really, really good thing that he lost the mayoral contest.
But you know, it might not have been what it appears at all. They might not have been putting out signs. It could have been a tryout for Tom's production of La Cage Aux Folles.
Or they could have been going to the local showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Everyone knows you have to have some alcohol to get on stage to start dancing "the time warp"in drag.
Really, officer. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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maybe this accounts for the way-too-many tom johnson signs in sioux park across from anderson dental that assaulted everyone's eyes on the way to work yesterday...just too much of too much
Tom Johnson's favorite You Tube Clip
- Doug Remer, BASEketball
Not to mention that's not the candidate's job.
What "line" is out there? It's a news story that broke across multiple media outlets, and the police confirmed there was a DUI arrest.
Jabba the Schumacher is just crying in his sugar coated cereal that the candidate He and Hamilton bought is long gone.
The only thing that this race was missing was for Kooiker to change the spelling to Kookier.
That by itself brings his judgment into serious question.
It just so happened that it also turned out to be a guy. That brings into question his visual acuity and his intelligence on top of it.
The story about the signs sounds like crap, even if that's what they were doing.
I know I wouldn't want to try that one with my wife.
Shades of gray puke.
"sensible pumps"...very funny.
This almost fits the don't get caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy political rule, but with a slight twist.
I was just reminded in a phone call that the Rapid City Council also had a councilman who decided he needed a sex change. Don't think he became a councilwoman, but don't remember for sure.
Must be something in the water out there...or maybe mountain air isn't everything John Denver thought it was.
--- Doug Wiken
You could make an HBO series about it. You have the rich porn addict throwing tainted money around. You have the rich, angry egomaniac throwing money everywhere. You have the rabid religious freak/Sally Jesse Raphael impersonator. You have santa claus. You have someone named Kookier who looks the part. You have the freefall of an ethically flawed city councilor, with all of the dirt that goes with it. You have late and most likely false campaign filings. You have an unlimited amount of backstabbing and alliance shifting. You have a transgender city councilor replaced by someone named Hadcock. And now this.
All in one political party, and all in one conservative midwestern city. Who'd have thought it?
Other than the way his disability affects how he walks, Sam is as normal as anyone.
What's next? Pointing at a Veteran who happens to be an amputee and calling him a gimp?
Been trying to come up with a catchy title for the show, but none that really grab me yet -
Desperate Politicians
As the Hills Turn
Gay's Anatomy
Need some help here....There's gotta be a good one out there somewhere..
But call me scum if you like. I've been called worse.
That was Rapid City's name before it was called "Rapid City."
"Hay Camp."
Hey, hey, hey!
(HA HA HA)
My fave though is, "You can call me anything... as long as you call me for dinner."
Ultimately at the end of the series, the politician/author completes his book but is turned down by a publisher who says, "nobody would ever believe that."
So which of these RC characters should be the author?
Why the sarcasm, PP? What do you tell your candidates to do the 7 hours prior to the polls opening? Should they sit around with their thumbs in their mouths?
The candidate shouldn't be doing it? Why not? Especially at 1:30 AM? C'mon PP -- You seem to be better at politics than allowing sarcasm to get in the way of good sense.
What do I tell candidates to do? At that level, I have (and do) tell them to go door to door. Meet with key people. Give the media a call and talk about the election the next day.
Anything that only the candidate can do.
At 1:30 am, they should be in bed so if they have to do something, they can get up at 4:30/5am the next day to go work business entrances, downtown, or if they feel they have to do the volunteer level stuff, go do a lit drop in a targeted precinct.
It's better to be noticed talking with people, than trying to rush through a list of signs.
The candidate's job is to press the flesh - NOT to put up signs. That's two guys in a pickup with a list.
If any consultant tells his candidate to go put out signs himself, he should be slapped. The candidate's time is far, far more valuable than that.
He or she is an ambassador, spokesman, etc. Not the sign guy.
Too many years ago, I worked on a campaign and at one town in SD which can remain nameless, the actual candidate and I were standing side by side. Some guy at the meeting came up and started talking to me as if I was the actual candidate even though he was standing next to me.
Pretty good quick realization that we had some serious name/face identification problems.
Having seen Sen. Obama's announcement this morning, it is comforting to see a campaign that restores the notion that running for office is, indeed, a noble and patriotic service. That is a cause that candidates and their staffs -- in both parties -- serve well when they do their jobs honorably.
You can win most races by a minimal effort, because most candidates are worse than most might imagine.
But those who are students of the craft know the tough races are won by much more than clever ads.
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I think it has more to do with political stratagies.
People can come and go in political campaigns, before, during and after.
What is bothering people i would say is the fact Mike and Kookier are considered friends and Mike and Shaw didn't see eye to eye on issues.
Is it about loyalty, money or other factors??? I would say ponder the questions.
Rapid has had some troubling times in the city office lately. hummmmmmm.
Even in those cases, I don't think it's so cut and dried...
I work with people who want to win, and are open to the concept of what a real campaign is. 2008 will mark 20 years of helping candidates, and I still consider myself a student of the craft.
While I by no means win all of them (although I did last night), at the very least, the opponent knew they had a fight.
"The discussion is worthless, since almost no one identifies him/herself"
An intersting quote from Anonymous...
At least if I say somthing stupid, you know stupid William posted it...
I had his program on in the background while I was doing something else... and the mention of "Rapid City, South Dakota" got my attention. I was stunned that something like this would get any attention beyond our state.
the bad; only 11,673 people voted.
the good; 10,145 did not vote for Johnson.
And guess what? I still have my soul and most of my hair without prostituting myself.
6:10, no, I'm not working for Sam, although I greatly celebrate his win in this initial contest.