Posted on 03/24/2021 11:46:35 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
The Spectator’s Amber Athey reports that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she’s the victim of “conservative cancel culture” over her opposition to a bill making its way through the state legislature to “promote continued fairness in women’s sports”
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I’d love to see just one Democrat refuse to sign a leftist bill b/c it might lead to lawsuits. I will die waiting.
I notice nobody has read the text of the letter or the bill itself. Schools would be getting sued from all over the place. A 5’4” 130 lb kid gets cut from the varsity team? Let’s sue the school, that’ll show them!
This is a lawyer’s dream.
Do not think many here are interested in anything but the spin they are hearing. I hope that more start to read her letter for themselves.
She figured out how to kill her career—she violated the first rule—”when you are in a hole, stop digging”.
;-)
Instead of her letter, where she is trying to deflect, read the bill. I don’t see anything that egregious, it sounds pretty straight forward. To complain that obtaining a written verification from athletes would be too burdensome for schools seems like a weak cop-out.
https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/218120.pdf
I notice nobody has read the text of the letter or the bill itself. Schools would be getting sued from all over the place. A 5’4” 130 lb kid gets cut from the varsity team? Let’s sue the school, that’ll show them!
This is a lawyer’s dream.
I notice the good folks cheering on Noem can’t seem to notice they are standing with freak trannies and woke corportists who certainly do not have our best interests at heart.
bump
Thank you
“Good point. Rubio lost the Presidency with his vapid explanation for joining the odious Gang of 8!”
Just a nit, but it was his MEMBERSHIP in the Gang of 8 that the base wanted nothing to do with.
It is not very difficult, Girls sports is for girls. If you were born with a penis you are not a girl.
Have read the bill and her letter. The letter is unconvincing. She makes a couple of legitimate grammatical corrections, but then guts the bill as regards application to collegiate athletics and (altogether workable) enforcement mechanisms. It is an improper use of the style and form veto. She did it not because of advice from legal scholars — a smokescreen excuse — but because she was pressured, directly and through her staff, by the Chamber of Commerce and other business interests.
If you like Gov. Noem, you'll love this fighting conservative governor.
Don’t worry...my guess is that she will be on the ticket as VP with either Trump or DeSantis.
bump!
She made a choice and apparently, can’t come to grips with that choice. Therefore, she must blame everyone but herself for that choice. And to think, had high hopes for the Idiot.
Speaking of lawyers, have you all even bothered to look at the legal team that she has advising her?
Read about Tony Venhuizen, her chief of staff, and Matt McCaulley, her top advisor. Both lawyers. Both with a dog in the fight.
Then get back to us about her unbiased analysis of the legislation.
Trump has set the bar high. If you’re not fighting 7/24/365 for the country, its citizens, and the Constitution, and against our many foreign and domestic enemies, you’re not my candidate, and you don’t get my vote. #Trump2024
“Read about Tony Venhuizen, her chief of staff, and Matt McCaulley, her top advisor.”
Tell me about it. McCaulley looks like he’s right out of the Lincoln Project...just Google his name. Not good, if that’s her most trusted person.
We can do better.
She did it not because of advice from legal scholars — a smokescreen excuse — but because she was pressured, directly and through her staff, by the Chamber of Commerce and other business interests.
Noem reportedly shut out supporters of the bill for weeks while she crafted a CYA surrender with corporate lobbyists and her staff. If that doesn’t show you which team she is playing for nothing will.
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