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It might be fun to comment on the Noem-Sandlin race.

I am rooting for Noem. She is almost from our area.
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Sioux Falls, SD (August 26, 2010)-Today, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin released a new ad entitled “Flyover Country.”

"In Washington, they call this flyover country."

Stephanie does a lot of flying.


"They look down from 30,000 feet and don’t care about
our agriculture, the 2nd Amendment or our fiscally
conservative values.
I’m Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and that’s why I’m
working to stop the EPA regulations that hurt
agriculture. I took on liberal leaders to protect
our right to own guns … and fought people in both
parties who want to just throw money away.
I approved this message because no matter which
party’s in charge, I do what’s right for South Dakota."

Stephanie cares about our fiscally conservative values?
Does Stephanie care about our morally conservative values?
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SD Congresswoman Runs Ad Touting her Independence

Herseth Sandlin's ad refers to her votes against the health care reform law and bailout measures for automobile companies and financial firms.


Well, if she is independent and the Democratic Party is full of baloney, she should get out of the Democratic Party.
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Yankton Press & Dakotan
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:40 AM CDT
Monday night, the three GOP candidates emphasized those little differences that they hope will send them into the general election against Democratic incumbent Stephanie Herseth Sandlin.
Chris Nelson of Pierre, Kristi Noem of Castlewood and Blake Curd of Sioux Falls spoke to voters at a Vermillion forum sponsored by the Clay County Republicans. Nelson currently serves as South Dakota Secretary of State, while Noem and Curd serve in the South Dakota Legislature.
elected to the U.S. House, Noem said she would take a different path than Herseth Sandlin.
“There is a big difference between going to Congress and voting, and going to Congress and leading,” Noem said.
The current health care reform will raise taxes and cut programs at the very time it adds more people to the rolls, Noem said. In addition, the federal stimulus bills have raised the deficit without creating jobs and improving the economy, she said.
Herseth Sandlin could have killed legislation by convincing four members of her Blue Dog Democrat coalition to change their votes, Noem said.
Noem said she would not be a career politician. Congress has gotten out of touch with everyday Americans, she said.
Herseth Sandlin’s voting record contradicts her claim to be a fiscal conservative, Nelson said. He pointed to the congresswoman’s votes for an $800 billion spending bill and raising the debt limit by $1.9 trillion.
Herseth Sandlin has also cast contradicting votes or taken conflicting stances on the cap-and-trade bill and health care reform, Nelson said.
By 2052, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will consume all of the federal taxes, leaving nothing for national defense and other needs, Nelson said.
The current federal spending harms economic prosperity and makes it difficult for the average American to get ahead, Nelson said.
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It’s Time to Expose and Defeat Every Blue Dog
Posted by dhorowitz3
Thursday, August 19th

The Democrats currently have a 39 seat majority in Congress, however 58 members of their caucus are “blue dogs”. These 58 Democrats describe themselves as fiscal conservatives (and in some cases social conservatives) and represent districts that range from marginally Republican to “red meat conservative”. The problem is that there is no such thing as a conservative Democrat in the 21st century. Most of the blue dogs are in fact Pelosi lapdogs who vote with their leadership on a majority of issues and on virtually all of the vital procedural votes. Even the few blue dogs who vote with Republicans only do so because they hail from conservative districts.
Also, there is another important fallacy about these “conservative” Democrats. Every single one of them votes for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, and even the most conservative Democrat hands control of the committees to extremists like Henry Waxman, John Conyers, and Barney Frank. By single handily granting Pelosi a governing majority, the Blue Dog Coalition grants the Democrats full control of the Rules Committee, which completely manipulates the legislative process for the leadership. This effectively assures the passage of any legislation that is supported by Pelosi and her ilk. This is exactly how we got ObamaCare.
The obvious question of any observer should be, “why are these self proclaimed conservative Democrats campaigning, caucusing, and promoting the power of the most radical leaders of the Democrat party in American history?” How can a “conservative” facilitate the passage of legislation that negates the very core values that they purport to espouse?
The answer is that these blue dogs are liberal wolves disguised as sheep. They are just as liberal as Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, it’s just that they have to pretend to be conservative in order to remain in office. The simple fact is that the Democrat party, as it is currently constituted, is extremely radical, while the Republican party (much to our chagrin) is not very conservative. To put it another way, Ben Nelson is not the poster boy for the Democrat party and unfortunately Jim DeMint is not the face of the Republican party. Therefore, by virtue of any politician opting to join the Democrats, they expose themselves as ultra leftists. Period. If the blue dogs were really true to their convictions they would demand that a so called moderate blue dog become Speaker instead of Pelosi. Until recently, these lap dogs have successfully run a scheme in which they talk the conservative talk at home, while goose stepping the socialist march in DC. 2010 is the time to put an end to this dog and pony show.

http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2010/08/19/its-time-to-expose-and-defeat-every-blue-dog/
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The Legend of the Social Liberal-Fiscal Conservative

For example, let us take a look at the current Republican lineup in the U.S. Senate and compare their views on social liberalism and fiscal conservatism.
As a proxy measure of social conservatism, one could use the National Right to Life Committee index that rates members of Congress from 0 to 100, with 100 being a perfect pro-life score. As a proxy measure of fiscal conservatism, one could employ the National Tax Payers Union system, which grades office holders on fiscal policy, granting school-style grades that range from A to F. Senators who receive As and Bs are taxpayers' friends while those receiving Cs, Ds, and Fs are big spenders.
If the myth of the social liberal/fiscal conservative were true, we would expect to find plenty of senators who receive low marks from Right to Life, but high marks from the taxpayers group. Analysis of these scores, however, reveals that social liberals tend to be fiscal liberals and social conservatives tend to be fiscal conservatives. Of those who received a score of 60 or less from Right to Life, there is not a single senator with a taxpayer-friendly grade better than a C+.
Those senators who had a Right to Life score better than 80 had an average taxpayer-friendly grade of a B. Those senators who had a Right to Life score between 60 and 80 had an average taxpayer-friendly grade of B-. Those who had a Right to Life score between 40 and 60 had an average taxpayer friendly grade of C. And, finally, those with a Right to Life score of 40 or less had an average taxpayer friendly grade of C-.
The more socially liberal the politician, the more fiscally liberal is the politician. For the most part, a conservative is a conservative and a liberal is a liberal. This is the hard truth.

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The desperation of Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

July 16, 2010 Posted by Scott
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is South Dakota's lone member of the House of Representatives. She is a Democrat and a reliable member of Nancy Pelosi's team in Congress. Now that it's time for her to face the voters back home, however, Herseth Sandlin is selling herself as an independent. She must think the citizens of South Dakota are first-class rubes.

In the ad below -- the first to run in the race on South Dakota television -- Herseth Sandlin touts her supposed opposition to "a trillion-dollar health care plan," i.e., Obamacare. "A trillion-dollar health care plan," she seems to be saying, is an insupportable monstrosity.

So Herseth Sandln must support repeal of such impossibly costly legislation? Actually, no. According to Herseth Sandlin, "repealing it wouldn't be a productive way forward."

I have an idea for a productive way forward: replace Herseth Sandlin with Republican candidate Kristi Noem. Noem says that she supports repeal, and that If full repeal is not possible right away, then we must pursue other options to limit the legislation. (Unfortunately, Noem's video fact-check of the Herseth Sandlin ad does not point out Herseth Sandlin's two faces on this issue.)

Will the people of South Dakota please wipe that smile off Herseth Sandlin's face this November? What a phony.

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Desperate times call for desperate measures in the Herseth Campaign. However, check with Heidepriem next time.
Posted: August 25, 2010
By: Pat Powers

Okay – Here’s the scoop. Yesterday I pointed out that the word is “the Herseth Sandlin campaign is in full panic mode. Since desperate times call for desperate measures, they’re going to go hard negative against Kristi Noem in an attempt to try to stop her momentum.” And I got confirmation today.

Today I hear that the Herseth Sandlin camp is quietly pushing out a message to some in the SF Media that during the previous 20 years, State Representative Kristi Noem had *gasp* gotten 20 speeding tickets to Herseth Sandlin’s one.

Annnnnnd…. insert sound of deflating balloon here.

That’s it? That’s what they’ve got? The Herseth Sandlin people went back to when Kristi was 18 or 19 and started counting her speeding tickets? And they’re actually shopping this story to the media? (At least 1 Sioux Falls TV station bit on the Herseth Sandlin campaign’s lure like a trout, and are asking candidates about tickets.)

What I’m hearing is that the timing coincides with the next Rassmussen poll in an attempt to create a distraction as they prepare to come out with the 4th month of bad polling news for Herseth Sandlin.

Sounds to me that they’re pulling out everything, plus the kitchen sink.

Of course going back to her teen years Kristi has more speeding tickets than Herseth Sandlin. When you live in Washington DC, and spend two or three days of the year in South Dakota, OF COURSE you’re not going to get speeding tickets here.

However, I’m sure that on the number of DC Metro passes that Herseth Sandlin has bought, she beats Noem hands down.

Now, here’s where it gets a little funny. Obviously, the Herseth Sandlin campaign doesn’t talk much to the Scott Heidepriem campaign. Because had they actually vetted the story with the Heidepriem camp, it would have been killed.

Why?

Because Heidepriem is right behind Noem, having received 18 speeding tickets in the last 20 years. In fact, I’m told there were two he got in the same day – one in Day County, and one in Brown county. (That must have been one fast ambulance! Badum bum).

Yes, in preparing to beat up Noem, Herseth Sandlin’s people ended up throwing their down-ticket running mate in front of her to take the first punch. I’m sure we will hear the Democrats sputtering “But…. but…… she got 2 more!“ And no one will actually care.

(BTW, Lt. Governor Daugaard has 12 in the past 20 years, since I’m sure it will be brought up if we leave him out.)

At the end of the day, if all the Herseth Sandlin camp has on Kristi Noem is news of speeding tickets from 20 years ago, they’d better go back to dig a little deeper in the trash bin. Because that dog just isn’t going to hunt, and it will all be forgotten with yesterday’s fish wrappers.

And they should wipe the smell off before they show up in public again.

http://blog.keloland.com/issues/?p=2960
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Noem (R) V. Herseth-Sandlin (D)
A blog tracking, following, describing and opining on all things Noem V. Herseth-Sandlin.

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The far-left Herseth

September 26, 2006
From the Aberdeen American News:

To the editor - Rep. Stephanie Herseth and her supporters speak of her "independent voice in Congress"; however, a review of her top contributors (1989-2006) on www.opensecrets.org generates questions concerning her political independence.

Herseth has received $35,000 from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's PAC to the Future. Pelosi is a known Democrat leftist ideologue. Pelosi was fined in 2003 by the FEC (Federal Election Commission) for financial skullduggery involving her political action committees.

Herseth is a pro-abortionist supporter; NARAL rates her 100 percent, NARAL's top score. Pelosi receives the same score from NARAL.

DASHPAC (former Sen. Tom Daschle's PAC) has given Herseth $32,500 during the 1989-2006 election cycle time frame. Daschle's leftist political agenda is well known.

Being a lawyer, a leftist Democrat and a politician it is only natural that she received $35,000 from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America during the referenced time frame. However, two international law firms have contributed $65,500 and $31,050 respectively to Herseth. What internationalist leftist political/social agenda are they trying to sell in the U.S. Congress that they would support Herseth this way? Ask Herseth.

As a minority party junior congresswoman, Herseth can tap dance through and around the agenda thicket on issues (except abortion) without suffering the wrath of the Democrat party leftist leadership. They will give her the "2nd Amendment pass" so she can look good to the home state voters. Pelosi, Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Charles Rangel are smart that way.

The facts speak for themselves - Herseth is not an "independent voice in Congress."

Posted by Steve Sibson

http://sibbyonline.blogs.com/sibbyonline/2006/09/the_farleft_her.html
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Herseth Sandlin Truth Squad does some fact checking

Posted by Pat Powers July 13, 2010

And from the NRCC….

FACT CHECK: Herseth Sandlin’s First TV Ad

CLAIM: “I’ll always vote to do what’s right for South Dakota.” (Herseth Sandlin TV Ad, viewed July 12, 2010)

FACT: FALSE! Herseth Sandlin has continually voted against South Dakota’s interest by supporting legislation that has saddled future generations with more debt:

•$787 billion failed stimulus package (House Roll Call 70, Feb. 13, 2009)
•The biggest spending increase since the malaise days of the Carter Administration (excluding emergency spending authorized in response to 9/11) (House Roll Call 86, Feb. 25, 2009)
•The most fiscally irresponsible budget in history (House Roll Call 216, April 29, 2009)
•Increasing the US Debt ceiling by a whopping $2.2 trillion in the last year alone.
•$300 billion increase (House Roll Call 988, Dec. 16, 2009)
•$1.9 trillion increase (House Roll Call 48, Feb. 4, 2010)

CLAIM: Herseth Sandlin is an independent voice: “That was six years ago when you first sent me to Congress. And I’m as determined to be an independent voice for South Dakota today as I was then.” (Herseth Sandlin TV Ad, viewed July 12, 2010)

FACT: Herseth Sandlin votes with Nancy Pelosi more than 92% of the time. Apparently “independent” doesn’t mean what it used to. (Washington Post, accessed July 12, 2010)

CLAIM: Herseth Sandlin opposes the bailout: “That’s why I voted against the bailouts and a trillion dollar healthcare plan.” (Herseth Sandlin TV Ad, viewed July 12, 2010)

FACT: Herseth Sandlin balked at Republican attempts to permanently end the bailout and voted with Nancy Pelosi to make sure that the bailout can continue. (House Roll Call 967, Dec. 11, 2009)

CLAIM: Herseth Sandlin opposes the government takeover of healthcare: “That’s why I voted against the bailouts and a trillion dollar healthcare plan.” (Herseth Sandlin TV Ad, viewed July 12, 2010)

FACT: Since first casting her vote, Herseth Sandlin has had a change of heart and has even opposed attempts to repeal the government takeover of healthcare. (House Roll Call 362, June 15, 2010)

In fact, Herseth Sandlin fails to mention that she made a deal with liberal Democrats that she would protect Obamacare going forward as long as Democrat Kevin Weiland promised to drop his primary bid:

Instead [Kevin Weiland] negotiated an assurance from Herseth Sandlin that she would reconnect with her Democratic base in South Dakota and never vote for a repeal of the health care plan. Then he helped coordinate a joint press release with Herseth Sandlin on his decision, and the agreement.

(Kevin Woster, “Family ties, D.C. pressure led Weiland to withdraw,” Rapid City Journal, April 1, 2010)

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27 August 2010
Ken Berwitz

Here are excerpts from a congressional candidate's TV ad:

"In Washington, they call this 'flyover country'. They look down from 30,000 feet and don't care about our agriculture, the second amendment or our fiscally conservative values....i took on liberal leaders to protect our right to own guns...."

Obviously this ad, with its anti-Washington tone and big-time dig at the administration's economic policies, is on behalf of a Republican running against a Democrat. Right?

Well, hold onto your hat. Because it isn't. The ad is for Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, the incumbent Democratic congressperson from South Dakota, who is in the fight of her life against Republican Kristi Noem.

But there is no doubt that Ms. Herseth Sandlin's Democratic identification has been put into a lockbox for this campaign.

Illustratively, the TV ad I quoted at the beginning of this blog has absolutely no verbal or visual indication that she is a Democrat. And the only mention of President Obama's policies is that she implies (without saying it outright) opposition to his economic policies - a tough sell, given that she voted in favor of the Obama budget, with its "stimulus package last year.

So here we have another Democrat running, not walking, from her party; especially from her President.

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Capitol Notebook: What do speeding tickets really mean?
BY Bob Mercer, American News Correspondent
Published on Saturday, September 04, 2010

PIERRE - Strange, isn't it? The choice in our U.S. House of Representatives election this fall might come down to whether Republican challenger Kristi Noem was caught driving too fast too many times.

That the campaign staff for Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin needed to launch the attack tells us how difficult the congresswoman's chance for re-election must have appeared.

That they managed to somewhat change the conversation for the past week helped Herseth Sandlin, perhaps, by slowing down the momentum of Noem, a state legislator from Castlewood.

However, the speeding ticket discussion quickly moved far beyond Noem. Window panes shattered in glass houses in both parties.

We learned Democratic governor candidate Scott Heidepriem had 17 speeding tickets since 1989. Republican governor candidate Dennis Daugaard had 12 during that span.

The congresswoman's father, former legislator and Democratic governor candidate Lars Herseth, had 17.

We also learned that Herseth Sandlin's chief of staff, Tessa Gould, ran a stoplight in Brookings and consequently was caught for a DUI in Brookings this summer.

This has been a sad turn of events in what should be a historic race. This is the first time in South Dakota history that two women are the major-party candidates for a seat in Congress or governor.

Herseth Sandlin is in trouble politically because she has been unable to run from who she is (a Democrat) and who is president (Democrat Barack Obama) and who's in control of Congress (the Democrats) and the continued struggles of South Dakota's economy, the U.S. stock markets and the nation's economy.

The last time an incumbent lost re-election to a U.S. House seat in South Dakota was 1974. Democratic U.S. Rep. Frank Denholm fell to Republican challenger Larry Pressler in the old First District, back when South Dakota still had two seats in the House.

Stephanie Herseth was three years old that November. That she might become the next Frank Denholm this November is very possible. The previous three Rasmussen polls reflected her vulnerability against Noem.

Herseth Sandlin faces deeper problems. Democratic voter registration has been slipping month after month in South Dakota, falling to 192,969 as of Sept. 1, the lowest in more than two years.

Meanwhile, Republican registration has inched upward this year, hitting 235,026 as of Sept. 1. And independents have grown in registration, too, climbing to 82,977.

There are actually more independents registered now than for the 2008 general election. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans can say that.

Worse for Herseth Sandlin, there's no U.S. Senate race with the deep pockets necessary for a big-time effort to get out the vote for Democratic candidates.

Nor has Heidepriem's long-shot campaign for governor helped her in any obvious way.

If anything, Daugaard's focus on jobs and economic development in his campaign for governor has spotlighted the weakness of South Dakota's economy. The weak economy clearly hasn't helped Herseth Sandlin.

And Republicans have tried hard to tie Herseth Sandlin to Democratic U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, the House leader.

The matter of Noem's speeding tickets raises another point altogether. That is, who are Kristi Noem and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin?

Noem's staff and supporters tried to get at this, but fumbled it, by arguing that Herseth Sandlin wasn't in South Dakota often enough in the past 20 years to have many opportunities for speeding tickets.

The real point is, Noem, 38, and Herseth Sandlin, 39, chose two very different paths for their lives.

Noem graduated from Hamlin High School but had to quit college at Northern State. She went home to help after the death of her father, Ron Arnold, in a farming accident.

Since then she's spent her life on her family's farm or being part of the Noem family's various farming, ranching, hunting and business operations with her husband, Bryon Noem. They have three children, and for the past four years she's served in the state House of Representatives.

Herseth Sandlin, the granddaughter of a former governor, grew up on the family ranch along Sand Lake in northern Brown County, graduated from Groton High School and went off for a decade to Washington, D.C., where she attended Georgetown University and received her bachelor, graduate and law degrees.

She eventually returned to South Dakota to seek the U.S. House seat in the 2002 election, lost to Republican Gov. Bill Janklow in that contest, worked for the South Dakota Farmers Union foundation and taught at South Dakota State University.

She got a second chance for the U.S. House in 2004, when Janklow resigned after his manslaughter conviction in a traffic death. She won the special June 2004 election and hasn't lost since.

Herseth eventually married her political mentor, former U.S. Rep. Max Sandlin, D-Texas, in 2007, following his divorce. They got to know each other during her 2002 campaign when he served as a special adviser to her. He turned to lobbying Congress after his defeat for re-election in 2004. Their child was born Dec. 15, 2008.

And so we have our choice this fall.

One is a modern professional woman who was a farmer, a wife and a mother first, and has been learning, the past four years or so, how to be a politician.

The other is a modern professional woman who was a lawyer and a politician first, and has been learning, the past four years or so, how to be a wife and a mother.

A historic election indeed.
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Steve Hickey, State Rep. – District 9
August 30, 2010

It would seem like a pretty good week for Mrs. Sandlin in terms of her negative campaigning helping her catch up to Noem's notable and increasing lead. However, Mrs. Sandlin's smack talk about what this reveals about Noem's character might come back to haunt her now that Kevin Wooster is reporting Herseth's father Lars also has 17 tickets and two failures to appear. About that Pat Powers quips "Those who live in glass houses should not cast stones." [[I disagree with Mercer, this IS relevant to the race: since Sandlin is so quick to equate speeding tickets with flawed character, it is only a politically opportunistic comment unless Sandlin is willing to say "AND THAT INCLUDES MY DAD and MR HEIDEPRIEM and my CHIEF of STAFF." Until she says that, her self-righteous and pious comments will fall on deaf ears and be seen for what they are.]]

Mrs. Sandlin only having one ticket seems to reinforce the perception in South Dakota that she's been chauffeured since she was seventeen and left the state to live in Georgetown. The cartoonists in our state are having fun depicting Noem as speed racer. If I didn't have better things to do right now I'd take the time to do a cartoon of Mrs. Sandlin in the back of her limo, all aghast at the news of Noem's driving record, boasting through the little window to her driver how she doesn't have any traffic violations.

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Rep. Herseth Sandlin’s Husband Puts Himself in the Campaign Battle
By Bob Ellis on June 28th, 2010

RedState examines the Herseth Hypocrisy today as South Dakota’s Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) says her husband and former congressman Max Sandlin should not be attacked in her campaign against Republican challenger Kristi Noem…even as Max interjects himself deeply into her campaign by sending out a fundraising letter which criticizes Noem.

Normally most people agree that non-involved family members should be off-limits from campaign criticism (even though the “mainstream” media completely ignores this for conservatives like Sarah Palin). But what if that family member is involved in raising support and attacking the opponent?

From Jonathan Ellis at the Argus Leader:

I didn’t know it at the time, but Max Sandlin already had jumped into the battle by sending out a fundraising letter on behalf of his wife. The letter, dated June 1, was sent before Kristi Noem had secured the Republican nomination by beating out two others in the June 8 primary. In the letter, Sandlin, a former congressman from Texas, said he knows what it’s like “to be targeted by the far right.” His wife, he added, puts “policy ahead of partisan politics” and the interests of South Dakota first.

The letter describes Blake Curd as the “darling of the Tea Party circuit,” Chris Nelson as a “birther” – one of those curious persons who thinks Barack Obama was born on Neptune, thus disqualifying him to serve as president and maybe making him an illegal immigrant to boot – and Kristi Noem as “South Dakota’s Sarah Palin.”

“Whichever candidate emerges from the June primary will be battle-tested, well-funded, and focused on turning this seat from Blue to Red in order to pursue an extreme, right-wing agenda,” the letter says. “Whether it’s the Tea Party candidate, South Dakota’s Sarah Palin, or someone who panders to the ‘birther’ movement – Stephanie is going to need your help.”

Sorry, Rep. Herseth Sandlin: you can’t have it both ways. If your husband is going to campaign for you, he’s in the public domain and fair game. You don’t get to have it both ways: have hubby attack your opponent and then expect him to be insulated from criticism.

Of course, why should we expect any differently from liberals? There are always two sets of standards with liberals: one for them, and one for everyone else. Like the pigs in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” they are just “more equal” than the rest of us.

Sorry, South Dakota isn’t buying that one anymore, either.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/06/rep-herseth-sandlins-husband-puts-himself-in-the-campaign-battle/
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About those tickets …
by Tom Lawrence
Do you care how many traffic citations state Rep. Kristi Noem has racked up in the last 21 years?

The South Dakota Democratic Party and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin sure hope you do. The SD Dems have created a website to poke some fun at Noem.

We’re sure to hear and read more about her driving record and I would guess other surprises will pop up as the campaign heats up and both sides dig for dirt on each other.

Here’s the site:

http://www.kristiabovethelaw.com/

http://mitchell.areavoices.com/2010/08/30/84771/
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Herseth Sandlin: 'I've always had lead'
THE DAILY REPUBLIC, MITCHELL, S.D. | TOM LAWRENCE |Sep 10

The campaign has had a harsh edge at times, with Noem's lengthy list of traffic offenses gaining a great deal of attention while the DUI arrest and conviction of Herseth Sandlin's chief of staff also made the news.

Herseth Sandlin's father, former legislator and 1986 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lars Herseth, also had his long record of driving offenses brought into the spotlight. Noem campaign staffers circulated a record of Lars Herseth's driving record two weeks ago.

"I'm not going to defend my father's, but my father is not on the ballot," Herseth Sandlin said. "That seems to have backfired."

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Herseth Sandlin Reflects South Dakota Values…NOT
By Bob Ellis on July 12th, 2010

I read a couple of interesting posts at the Mitchell Daily Republic last week.

The whopper entitled “Herseth Sandlin: Votes show S.D. values” popped up on their website.

I remember checking Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s (D-SD) voting record sometime in the past two years and learned that she voted with ultra-liberal San Francisco Leftist Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi more than 90% of the time (I think it was 94% or higher).

So I went to OpenCongress where I knew they had vote comparison software and took a look.

Well, it’s election season, so that 90%+ average has dropped…to only voting with Pelosi 84% of the time and voting with the Democrat Party 92% of the time.

So does Herseth Sandlin really vote South Dakota values? Are South Dakotans really 84% as liberal as Nancy Pelosi? Ah, no.

According to a Gallup poll done a little less than a year ago, South Dakota ranked the #8 most conservative state, while California came in at the #8 most liberal state. In South Dakota, only 18% of the people will own up to being liberal, and only 35% call themselves “moderate” (usually a euphemism for “liberal who won’t call themselves liberal”).

OpenCongress also provides some helpful information on specific votes. These are ones where Herseth Sandlin and Pelosi voted the same:

S.5 Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 (to fund research using human embryos)
H.R.6 Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (which calls for a lot of environmentalist regulations, global warming nonsense, etc.)
H.R.800 Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 (the pro-union “card check” bill with an Orwellian name)
H.R.976 Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 (gov’t health care bill for children)
H.R.1592 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (“hate crimes” bill to give special protections to homosexuals, etc.)
H.R.3962 Stupak amendment to gov’t health care bill to prevent taxpayer funding of abortion (BOTH VOTED “NO”)
H.R.3 Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 (to fund research using human embryos)
H.R.3963 SCHIP Extension bill
H.R.2 Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
H.R.626 Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2009 (Pelosi did not vote, but Herseth Sandlin voted YES to provide this taxpayer-funded benefit to federal employees)
H.R.1 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (stimulus aka “porkulus” that came in at nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer spending)
H.R.1913 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (another pro-homosexual bill)
H.R.2346 Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save Act of 2009 (the “cash for clunkers” bill)
These are just a few of the bills Herseth Sandlin voted for (in one case, one she voted against that she should have voted for), all but one of which were a vote with Nancy Pelosi (except for the one noted where Pelosi did not vote either way).

Do South Dakota values consist of destroying innocent human life in pursuit of unnecessary research? Does taxpayer-funded abortion reflect South Dakota values? Is environmental extremism a South Dakota value? Is forcing South Dakotans to accept homosexual behavior, cross-dressing and other sexual deviancies a South Dakota value? Is forcing South Dakota businesses to pay their workers for not working a South Dakota value? Is keeping workers under the thumb of union thugs a South Dakota value? Is unconstitutional socialized health care a South Dakota value? Is wasting taxpayer’s money to give people a freebie to buy a new car a South Dakota value? Is wasting nearly $1 trillion of the taxpayer’s hard-earned money to grow government a South Dakota value?

You know, the last time I checked, none of these things were South Dakota values, and that would seem to be borne out by the Gallup poll mentioned above.

It would seem that, as is often the case, it isn’t South Dakotans who are “living inside a bubble,” but a lot of journalists who seem to think liberalism is the mainstream.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/07/herseth-sandlin-reflects-south-dakota-values-not/
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August 26th

Instead of joining Kristi in sending a clear message to Washington opposing the bureaucratic grip these regulators are placing on South Dakota ag producers, the incumbent Congresswoman produced a slick television ad with nothing more than beautiful shots of our state and empty rhetoric,” said Kristi Noem for Congress Campaign Manager Joshua Shields.

“Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin’s latest ad speaks of stopping the EPA, but South Dakotans deserve, and expect, more than simply drafting a bill with no chance of passage. Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin should join Kristi immediately in calling for EPA Administrator Jackson to resign,” said Shields.

Where will Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin stand? On the side of South Dakota gun owners and hunters? Or on the side of the most anti-farmer, anti-rancher, anti-small business and now the most anti-hunter EPA in U.S. history?” said Shields.

THE EPA IS WORKING TO REGULATE...

AMMUNITION

DUST

& DELAYING E15 ETHANOL

YET CONGRESSWOMAN HERSETH SANDLIN HAS DONE NOTHING BUT PRODUCE TELEVISION ADS AND INTRODUCE LEGISLATION THAT GOES NOWHERE.

http://www.kristiforcongress.com/news/post/epa-administrator-noem-calls-for-resignation-herseth-sandlin-defends
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Rep Herseth Sandlin Again Runs Like Scalded Dog From Voting Record
By Bob Ellis on August 17th, 2010

Why is it that liberals vote the way they do, only to run like scalded dogs from their voting record?

I mean, most decent Americans who might for whatever reason be tempted to vote for some liberal rot would consider, “This is a bad thing for the country, so I shouldn’t vote for it.” If their moral compass was a bit more rusty but still minimally functional, they might say to themselves, “Voting for this will be political suicide if the folks back home in Rubesville find out about it, so I’d better not.”

It seems most liberals never have such conversations with themselves, however. Their conversations must go something like this: “I’m going to vote however I want because most of the rubes back home are too stupid to ever bother to find out about my record.”

So I read in the Rapid City Journal this afternoon that Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) ran like the aforementioned proverbial scalded dog from her record when Republican candidate Kristi Noem brought it up at the Dakotafest farm show debate today.

Noem, the assistant GOP leader in the South Dakota House, used her opening statement to repeat her claim that Herseth Sandlin votes with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 95 percent of the time.

“I believe the U.S. House of Representatives is the people’s house. It’s not Nancy Pelosi’s House,” Noem said.

Herseth Sandlin, who is seeking her fourth full term in the House, responded directly to Noem’s charge for the first time, calling it inaccurate.

“My voting record puts me right where most South Dakotans are, right in the middle of the political spectrum,” Herseth Sandlin said.

Uh, not really, as I’ve pointed out before. Most South Dakotans are God-fearing people who don’t support abortion on demand, the homosexual agenda, union thuggery, and the radical environmentalism supported by San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi…with whom Rep. Herseth Sandlin votes somewhere between 84% and 95%, depending on just how it’s measured.

OpenCongress has a very enlightening analysis of just how closely Rep. Herseth Sandlin votes with Speaker Pelosi.

Even Herseth Sandlin’s fellow Democrat, Senator Al Franken (D-MN), whom she invited to the state recently, said you can count on Rep. Herseth Sandlin to vote with San Francisco liberal Speaker Pelosi.

From the Rapid City Journal:

“She has voted differently than I voted on a couple of things, but we need to be able to have somebody here in South Dakota who’s going to vote for Speaker Pelosi, not for Speaker Boehner.”

So Herseth Sandlin has voted differently than Franken on a couple of things, but you can definitely count on Herseth Sandlin to vote with Speaker Pelosi. Hmmm. Is Rep. Herseth Sandlin trying to hide something here?

How does Franken vote? OpenCongress indicates he votes with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid 95% of the time–the same Senator Reid who has been determined to shove government health care, a cap and trade global warming tax, and other liberal smack down the throats of the smelly serfs out here beyond the Beltway.

Rep. Herseth Sandlin votes South Dakota values? Yeah, just like the Tea Party movement is coming out in droves to support her. Go pull my other leg now.

Herseth Sandlin might think the American people can afford to just keep coughing up trillions for the Democrat’s socialist agenda, but Kristi Noem sees things clearly:

“We don’t have a revenue problem here in the United States,” she said. “We have a spending problem.”

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/08/rep-herseth-sandlin-again-runs-like-scalded-dog-from-voting-record/
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All Aboard the Pelosi-Herseth Sandlin Global Warming Tour

September 8, 2010
Lucas Lentsch

The South Dakota Republican Party unveiled a new video today highlighting yet another aspect of the close relationship between Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. The web video zeros in on a trip Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin took with Pelosi in 2007 to Greenland and Northern Europe to inspect the melting ice caps on the taxpayer dime.

“While in South Dakota, Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin likes to distance herself from Nancy Pelosi, going so far as to hint at a pending leadership battle among Democrats at a recent debate, yet Herseth Sandlin has no trouble palling around with Pelosi in Greenland and Northern Europe on an inspection of the polar ice caps,” said SDGOP Executive Director Lucas Lentsch.

“Herseth Sandlin described her global warming tour as ‘powerful’ and even endorsed the Kyoto Agreement upon return. Perhaps Herseth Sandlin was still seasick from the trip because most South Dakota farmers and ranchers strongly oppose the cap and tax bill, which Herseth voted to send to the House floor, let alone an international treaty version of cap and tax.

Herseth Sandlin should once and for all explain her relationship with Nancy Pelosi, her support for the Kyoto Agreement, and her support for the Obama Administration’s EPA director, who wants to impose cap and tax on Americans through administrative mandate,” said Lentsch.

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/09/all-aboard-the-pelosi-herseth-sandlin-global-warming-tour/
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My Statement on Climate and Energy Legislation
by Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
July 1, 2009

“I believe it’s imperative for Congress to address climate change. I agree with the scientific consensus that human activity has substantially increased the accumulation of greenhouse gases and is contributing to a rise in average global temperature. With much of South Dakota's economy dependent on agriculture, which in turn depends on our climate, global warming could have a profound effect on South Dakota's economy and our way of life.

“However, given the complexity both of the climate change problem and the steps needed to address it, we need to take time to get it right. The stakes are simply too high for a rushed solution that can potentially create more problems than it solves.

“While I was not able to support this bill, it has already come a long way from where it started both in its discussion draft form and in the form the Energy and Commerce Committee approved.

“Important and common sense improvements have been made that go a long way towards recognizing the value that agricultural producers in South Dakota can bring to the climate change issue. The inclusion of an agricultural and forestry offsets program will enable farmers, ranchers and forest owners to fully participate in a market-based carbon offset program, earning income for activities they undertake to address global climate change while also ensuring environmental integrity and protecting early actors. Importantly, these provisions put the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), not the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in charge of regulating the use of farm and forestry projects intended to offset carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources.

“I am also pleased that the bill corrects the controversial and unproven methods for calculating indirect emissions through the lifecycle greenhouse gas analysis for biofuels. The bill also makes it very clear that agriculture and forestry sectors will be exempt from the greenhouse gas emission reduction requirements.

“However, while I am supportive of many of the changes made to the bill that stand to benefit agriculture, serious substantive and process concerns remain when it comes to doing right by rural America.

“I have heard from several utilities serving South Dakota, such as Black Hills Corporation, which serves tens of thousands of South Dakotans, that the allowances for emissions in the bill still aren’t fairly distributed and this disparity could mean dramatic rate hikes for its customers in South Dakota.

“Additionally, the bill does not adequately fix the flawed definition of renewable biomass in the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) or in the proposed Renewable Electricity Standard (RES). While the language on biomass is improved, it doesn’t go far enough in recognizing the essential role forests can and should play in sustainably generating renewable energy, ensuring our nation meets the cellulosic biofuels mandate in the RFS, moving our nation toward energy independence, and creating jobs in rural communities across the nation.

“Underlying my specific policy concerns are serious concerns about the rushed process for such an important and consequential bill. This bill is intended to help guide the economic future of our nation for decades and I think the process of fixing the bill since it’s been approved by the committee has been too rushed, and has raised too many questions about whether the concerns of rural America are adequately addressed. I hope that the legislative process will address these concerns, and ultimately, a bill can be presented to the House that treats South Dakota and rural America fairly as it moves the nation toward the new energy economy and addresses the real threat of climate change for our nation’s future.”

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NO CLIMATE TAX

Congress is debating the largest tax increase in history, the cap-and-trade energy tax.

Cap-and-trade is a tax on coal, oil, and natural gas but instead of being a specific tax rate, the total level of use is capped and companies are forced to pay the government for emissions permits. They bid against each other to stay in business, and nobody knows how much the tax will be until they hold the auctions.

It's a crazy, unpredictable tax, but it's certainly a tax.

The Pelosi/Reid/Obama strategy is to hide the gigantic tax hikes they want to fund their bailouts and big government spending inside a global warming bill. However, the bill is stalling on Capitol Hill because of political infighting and citizen outrage over the cost.

Last year, among friends in San Francisco, Obama explained what his cap-and-trade energy tax is supposed to do to ordinary Americans:

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket... whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."

There is one simple way to put members of Congress on record and figure out if this is about the environmental or just an excuse for a big tax increase: ask them to sign the pledge.

http://www.noclimatetax.com/


Pledge Takers

John Thune - U.S. Senator - Chairman, Senate Republican Policy Committee

Kristi Noem - Nominee- At Large, Currently State Representative - 6th District, Assistant Majority Leader
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Noem is a young, dynamic candidate; as a farmer and rancher who also runs a hunting operation and a restaurant, she has a solid background in the private sector.

This is a seat that by rights should be held by a Republican. If 2010 is to be a huge year for the GOP and not merely a good one, it is the kind of seat that we need to reclaim. Happily, Scott Rasmussen finds that the seat is within reach, as his first survey following Noem's primary victory has her ahead of Herseth-Sandlin--a thoroughly mediocre Congresswoman--by 53-41 percent.

Of course, there is a long way to go until November, and the Democrats will throw the kitchen sink at Noem. They have already called her an "extremist" and "the Sarah Palin of South Dakota." Somehow, I don't think that last gibe will strike South Dakota voters the way the Democrats intend.

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