Here's some of the information on the Corson County Charges: COUNT I That on or about December of 2005, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration with his foster daughter, A.M., through the use of force or coercion; and as to COUNT II That on or about July or August of 2006, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration with his foster daughter, A.M., through the use of force or coercion; and as to COUNT III That on or about July or August of 2006, in the County of Corson, State of South Dakota, Ted Alvin Klaudt did commit the public offense of SECOND DEGREE RAPE (SDCL 22-22-1(2)) in that he did accomplish an act of sexual penetration, separate and distinct from the act alleged in Count II, with...
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Who is going to save us from the gays? Who is going to save the babies?
This is not workable.
Can we impeach him?
Just curious,
How do you define "truly conservative"?
I suspect your next move will be to Wyoming or Utah.
This is where we lost it in the last election cycle. The problem was in the abortion ban. Public bickering and no compromising weakened the party and its candidates. Had the ban included exceptions, I would bet it would be on its way up the courts (victorious or not in the end), and there would have been about half as many D candidates running and less than half of those that did would have won.
Personally, I am privy to the more conservative group that supports the full ban, but would have had no problem in compromising exceptions in order to get something going and holding the party together. Most South Dakotans have some body part in the tent. Let's keep it that way.
If SD is too liberal for you, I'm thinking China or Pakistan would be a perfect fit. Don't forget to write!
The downside is both Knudson and Dempster will be more than willing to work with Heidepriem and Scott is going to end up looking like a real dealmaker who can get something done in Pierre.
Anonymous 4:29 -- are you a real person or just a figment of my imagination... I'm with the others, I can't imagine South Dakota much more conservative than it was. I do agree with you though that it may have been a tipping point and my personal hope is South Dakota begins looking more like Minnesota than Utha.
You're right on the money! Isn't it odd that the Democrats could handle the diversity in their own party on the abortion ban? Usually they defeat themselves with infighting. But maybe they had nothing to lose, so it didn't matter that Billion with his anti-ban ads could cooperate on the campaign trail with the Senate sponsor of HB 1215 Julie Bartling. And remember that Bartling had a hard challenge in her own primary over 1215 and lost none of her support base in old and new parts of her district.
I used to hear whining from Democrats that they wish they could work together like the Republicans. Now I wonder if Republicans can work together like South Dakota Republicans did until a few years ago.
These calls in War College for purging Ed Olson and the GOP moderates as well as seeking to impeach Knudson and Dempster seem like Repubicans out west don't care if they demolish their party because they can't work with people who differ on some issues. That's not a good sign.
How about Bill Peterson or Sue Peterson for state chairman(woman)? Let's keep the tent from further shrink-wrapping.
Instead of giving a tax cut, Rounds created a system where it takes 6 new state employees to administer the paperwork (4 separate forms at different times each year from each applicant to get and keep the rebate), and only 25% or so of eligible people participate because of the incredible red tape involved.
This did add some gov't, but it was all that stopped the SD mob from voting out the sales tax on food! I would much rather have that, a flat tax with a few FTEs, than give the dems another reason to try and start an income tax.
You know Rounds isn't a big gov't guy. The only reason he gets a rap for any of that is because of the added FTEs - and that is to try and get more of a return on our federal tax dollars through research grants and such. Rounds held the repubs together for 6 years in the state senate. He did it by cooperating and negotiating positions with other legislators in private caucuses and meetings. We need someone in the legislature to step up and do the same starting right now. I hope Knudson can do it.
That's not what we want to hear from our newly minted fiscal conservative leaders. Such a plan may sound good to farmers and ranchers in rural areas adjoining new growth developments but will unfairly shift the burden on the middle class homeowner in urban areas.
I think that many of the so called moderates who claim that the party should rally around limited government and lower taxes are not really sold on those values themselves. Such a proposal is bad for family values and bad fiscal policy. But we will see...
Do you think it is acceptable to have your children taught an homosexual agenda in public schools?
How are my tax dollars represented given I prefer not to fund abortion nor have my children subjected to material in public school I find objectionable as their parent.