SDGOP tampering with reliable voting blocs

Republican voters in South Dakota get special treatment. 

Meals on Wheels offers more than just food — it's a vehicle for outreach to the biggest Republican voter bloc in South Dakota but it's just one way the SDGOP keeps people who draw Social Security alive and pay the property taxes that fund red state failure. Well, until now anyway.

Insurance agent Ryan Maher is an Earth hater state senator from Isabel, South Dakota who is greased by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Qochtopus. Maher's political party is all about South Dakota being a perpetual welfare state and permanent disaster area where socialized agriculture, socialized livestock grazing, socialized coal, socialized military insurance, socialized timber harvest and a virtual medical industry triopoly are simply ways of life.

The Department of Human Services has put Western SD Senior Services Inc. on notice that closures of meal programs in Timber Lake, Hot Springs, Dupree, Bison, Martin, Wall, and Faith could bring legal action and the loss of millions in public funds. Western SD Senior Services is under contract with the state through September 2025 and received reimbursements from the state totaling $2,279,461 in fiscal year 2024. Sen. Ryan Maher told The Dakota Scout this week that he’s urging his colleagues on the Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) to look into the matter after he received calls from Western SD Senior Services subcontractors — restaurants and food service businesses hired to prepare and deliver meals — complaining they haven’t been paid since as far back as December. [Meals On Wheels Shuttering In Seven Western South Dakota Communities]

So, the more Republican South Dakota gets the stingier and more cruel the residents become. Not only has the SDGOP failed Indigenous Americans by not expanding Medicaid it has failed veterans and the elderly: its historically loyal voter base. But hey, if Tony Venhuizen wants to feed from the Qochtopus gravy train he has to prove he’s numbed to the misery, hopelessness and despair his father-in-law and political party have heaped on South Dakotans.

In a related story Rapid City Area Schools has turned to panhandling to pay student lunch debt because the state's Republican governor is a miserly solipsist.