12/31/25

Guest post: Powers is fat, Schoenbeck a toejam scraper

Editor's note: South Dakota's most acerbic former teevee anchor, Shad Olson takes aim at the state's fattest catholic blogger and its crookedest catholic lawyer.

Per the well established pattern of syncopation and mediocre sequential synergy, the obtuse amateur "gOVerMeNT wATchER" from Belle Fourche once again cites and quotes disgorged RINO blogger Pat Powers, ignores RINO gubernatorial candidates Dusty Johnson and Larry Rhoden and continues the Hansen-AFP scorched earth attack on self-funded outsider Toby Doeden with one of the least potent broadsides thus far, conflating the use of captured property tax financing to pay for improvements on blighted properties with a proposed Rapid City TIF application to bankroll an amusement park development. A difference not even of apples and oranges, but of hand grenades and recently deceased aardvarks, killed by boredom.
Katie Hoffmann, Pat Powers' lookalike, blog-alike "work wife" hones an inscrutable critique on Doeden's apparent attendance of a ribbon cutting for an Aberdeen apartment complex improvement project, calling it hypocritical in light of Doeden's opposition to the "Liberty Land" TIF ballot measure in Rapid City that would use TIF incentives to pay for a massive portion of the proposed amusement project's total cost. The $125-million ballot measure goes to the voters January 20th in Rapid City.
Hoffmann then lurches once again into a similarly awkward castigation of Doeden's use of COVID PPP loans to make payroll for hundreds of employees during the COVID economic crisis.
Scintillating it isn't.
Hoffmann then does a deep soul kiss with fired SDGOP RINO blogger, Pat Powers, calling his razor-blades-and-acid coverage of the Doeden campaign, "over the target."
Between their combined girth, I suppose being "over" any target is nearly unavoidable. The only thing thin between them are the conclusions.
To date, the Hansen-Odenbach-Hoffmann-AFP-Pat Powers consortium has dedicated less than 3.1415927 inches of column space to anything critical or expository regarding the policies or profiles of Dusty Johnson or Larry Rhoden, focusing all of their forward fire and a total of three shared neurons to their relentless trashing of the Toby Doeden campaign, continuing an apparent splitter operation to divide the grassroots and allow continued RINO executive leadership in South Dakota by either Rhoden or Dusty Johnson.
It's always amusing when people who can't afford hamburger brave the murky shallows of complex financial concepts using an eyedropper and a teaspoon and then compensate their predictably idiotic conclusions with maximum gaslighting and distortion based on neophyte topical ignorance.
A recently surfaced series of photos showing AFP paid lobbyist Jen Beving tipping rummy-chummy libations with the likes of Larry Rhoden and RINO toejam scraper Lee Schoenbeck coincides perfectly with the Hoffmann-Schoenbeck unison reposting of Pat Powers' latest invective against Doeden. The "South Dakota Strong," PAC-attack rides again.
It isn't a large cerebral cortex being ride shared by these hapless establishment hacks in their fully exposed warfare against the very principles they claim to champion... but it is an undeniably incestuous hivemind of busybodies, nonetheless.
Bzzzzzzzz.

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