Johnson has never stopped raising money so the SDDP needs to hound the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for cash and start running opposition ads on every commercial radio station in South Dakota. My party can recruit some respected Democrats to record radio spots then bombard the airwaves paving the way to 2024.
Johnson needs to be held accountable for coddling a would be dictator and building a war chest on the Big Lie, for his failures to support Medicaid, for voting against marriage, for not moving on immigration reform and for his culpability in driving talent from South Dakota. But he certainly knows which side of his bread gets buttered so the extreme white wing of the Republican Party owns him lock, stock and schlock. Johnson went from being a likable moderate to becoming just another tool of the oligarchs who hoard trillions in South Dakota’s banks and trusts because, hey, that’s where the money is.
When a handful of Republicans need socialized freight rail to ship subsidized grain Howdy Doody Dusty is all aboard but when thousands need passenger rail he’s ambivalent then votes against the Earth and for the Trump agenda without remorse. He wasn't duped by Maria Butina, he was an accomplice.
The SDDP should get to work immediately if not sooner to recruit candidates for all legislative races. It only ran candidates in 10 of 35 Senate districts in 2022 and fielded candidates in just 38 of 70 House districts. That’s below 50%, and it is simply unacceptable. [SDDP faces long, hard road, but for the good of the state, it must make progress and gain more influence]
It’s not impossible the Earth haters will choose South Dakota’s current Republican governor as their 2024 presidential running mate and the state’s junior US Senator has hinted leaving the Senate in the past setting up a primary next year, too.
So, the SDDP needs to find the money and hire muckrakers like the Governor’s Club did to beat Tom Daschle and put Kristi Noem in office.
Unfortunately, the lack of staffing resources, Medicaid underfunding, and the continued impact of COVID-19 created an environment where we can no longer keep our doors open. [Avantara closing Arlington nursing home in February]This falls on Dusty Johnson, too. Democrats need to pound it home and offer legislation that would create stipends to family members who are caregivers.
Howdy Doody @RepDustyJohnson survived on food stamps, now shits on poor people because he's a Republican. https://t.co/aQ59YOnFFD
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) June 6, 2021
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