DCI settlement is black eye for Jackley

South Dakota's Division of Criminal Investigation has been operating outside the law for decades but now a settlement has brought the culture of lawbreaking to light and taxpayers are being stuck with the bill.

A jury sided with former state Division of Criminal Investigation agent Laura Zylstra Kaiser Friday, awarding her $1.2 million in damages in a civil lawsuit in which she claimed discrimination and retaliation. In 2015, she sued DCI Director Bryan Gortmaker and former DCI agent Mark Black, alleging violations the federal Civil Rights Act and the South Dakota Human Relations Act. Kaiser's husband is Dan Kaiser, an Aberdeen police officer and state legislator who has said he is going to challenge Brown County Sheriff Mark Milbrandt in the 2018 Republican primary.

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DCI routinely entraps and arrests visitors to the Sturgis Rally, plants evidence on those who don't comply with the status quo, covers up crimes committed by the law enforcement industry and still protects those responsible for the wrongful death of Brady Folkens.

Policing for Profit has allowed DCI to provide military armaments for the industry throughout South Dakota even as Attorney General Marty Jackley pleads for more resources for his minions.

Jackley has declared his candidacy for the earth hater party's nomination for governor against another flawed Republican in what most expect to be a primary bloodbath. An appeal of the settlement is not impossible and if it is heard before January of 2019 it would pit Jackley against the state's ranking Democrat, South Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice David Gilbertson.

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Poor tax planning and death of Kristi Noem's father drove her into paramour's arms

Kristi Noem's father Ronald Arnold perished in a grain bin mishap because apparently he wasn't very smart.

“Ron Arnold did a will in 1976, and never updated it between 1981 and 1994,” said Robert Lord, a Phoenix tax attorney who has looked at probate documents of Noem’s father. “Based on better estate planning and the law in 1994, Kristi Noem’s family could’ve and should’ve had zero tax liability.” Arnold had an estate worth over $2 million, with about two-thirds of that leveraged by expenses. Only 15 states and the District of Columbia currently have an estate tax. No estate tax has been collected statewide in South Dakota since 2005. The state – in addition to friendly tax laws – is home to a $1 billion trust industry.

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Ron's death likely drove Kristi into a extramarital love life with Jim Meidinger, a much older family friend and mentor. After the birth of her first child persons within the Republican circle allegedly observed intimate contact between Kristi and Jim that is ordinarily reserved for couples.

From the Argus Leader:

Noem's dive into the family operation led to posts agricultural boards - her first steps into politics. She served on the South Dakota Soybean Association board. In 1997, then-Sen. Tom Daschle nominated her to serve on the state board of the Farm Service Agency. That led to an appointment to the board from President Clinton. Noem also attended one of Daschle's leadership camps, which were intended to groom up-and-coming Democrats to compete for local and state offices. Noem said she attended when the camps were open to Republicans because she wanted to learn more about campaigning. Noem isn't sure how her name got to Daschle for the FSA appointment. It came when the board was being expanded from three members to five. Regardless, Noem was a Republican serving among Democrats. "I don't know why or how she got on that board," said Mike O'Connor, a former Democratic lawmaker who served as the executive director of the state FSA.

In a twenty minute phone conversation Noem's affair was revealed to this blogger in 2010 by Shantel Krebs, South Dakota's current secretary of state and 2018 candidate for the earth hater nomination to the state's lone US House seat. In a phone interview with this blogger, Steve Cutler would not go on the record about being a witness to intimacy between Noem and Meidinger.

It's common knowledge that Krebs, Joni Cutler and other South Dakota legislators loathed Noem.

Shantel was giddy about spilling her guts during our phone conversation and provided me with eyewitnesses to the affair that nobody wanted to go on the record about. What really stuck in Krebs' craw was that KELO teevee buried the story replete with first person accounts of public intimate contact between Noem and her paramour.

With Meidinger's special help and a history of federal aid, Noem has announced she's leaving the US House of Representatives and running as a candidate against fellow earth hater, Attorney General Marty Jackley for the earth hater party's nomination for governor.

Small government Noem can virtually fly right into her back yard now thanks to a federally air service subsidy for the Watertown Regional Airport.

Nelson acknowledging South Dakota is failing relations with tribes

A concerned South Dakotan that attended the hearing yesterday posted this.

This is what was up for debate at the start of the video:

Senator Jensen, moves, seconded by Senator Nelson, that in accordance with SDCL 2-6-23, for the purpose of improving state tribal community relations, and for studying and consideration of information regarding diversions of monies intended for Native American youth education, meant to improve long-term economic development of these youth’s impoverished communities, in order to compile and present draft legislation, and/or policy recommendations to the Legislative Research Council Executive Board, that the Joint-Tribal Relations Committee issue official legislative summons to the following persons commanding their appearance before the next Joint-Tribal Relations Committee meeting: Melody Schopp, Don Kirkegaard, Tom Oster, Tamera Darnell, Brinda Kuhn, Keith Moore, Rick Melmer, and Kelly Duncan, with subpoenas sent to the Department of Education, MidCentral Education Cooperative, and each named individual commanding all records, documentation, vouchers, checks and memoranda on each individual’s personal service contract or personal employment agreement(s) relating to any federal or state grants administered or managed in any way by the State of South Dakota. [State Senator Stace Nelson]

Despite tribal protests Canadian company pledging to rape Black Hills

The Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming are not the only public lands plundered by foreign companies under cover of an antiquated mining law.

Although the company’s application for an exploratory permit from the state met little resistance, the Forest Service review of the company’s plan to drill on public land has sparked an outcry from some neighboring landowners, environmental activists and Native American tribal leaders. At a recent meeting between tribal leaders and Forest Service officials, Oglala Sioux Tribal Chairman Scott Weston was quoted by the Native Sun News as saying that new gold mining in the Black Hills would spark a “war.” “There will be bloodshed, because we have to stand up for our children and our grandchildren,” Weston was quoted as saying.

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Opponents to efforts by a Canadian miner exploiting the 1872 law and targeting lands on the Black Hills National Forest abutting tribal-owned off-reservation property are hinting legal action.

President Clinton’s Executive Order 13175, issued on November, 6, 2000, was prompted by a need to clarify consultation process and procedure. Clinton stated, “When I became the first President since James Monroe to invite the leaders of every tribe to the White House in April 1994, I vowed to honor and respect tribal sovereignty. At that historic meeting I issued a memorandum directing all federal agencies to consult with Indian tribes before making decisions on matters affecting American Indian and Alaskan Native peoples.”

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Last year Democratic Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton toured a Janklow mining disaster in the Black Hills calling it "a textbook example of how not to do it."