Posted on 10/23/2014 7:47:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The largest newspaper in South Dakota broke a story that could cost the GOP a red state Senate seat. The Fiscal Times reports:
The three-way race for South Dakota’s open Senate seat got more complicated Wednesday, when the Sioux Falls Argus Leader published a page one story alleging that former Governor Mike Rounds, the Republican candidate and current leader in the polls, had approved $600,000 in state assistance to a company that was about hire a member of his cabinet.
According to reporter David Montgomery, then Secretary of Tourism and State Development Richard Benda requested the assistance for Northern Beef Packers about two weeks before he and Rounds were to leave office. Benda was about to go to work for a company with an investment in the plant – something Montgomery reports that Rounds knew while he remained in office, either at the time he signed off on the assistance, or shortly thereafter.
The article quotes Rounds saying, “My staff told me that when he was leaving state government, he was going to work for an investor in the beef plant.”
Rounds now says that his former Tourism Secretary misled him. Benda, who later faced accusations that, once in the private sector, he had redirected state grant money to pay his own salary, committed suicide in October 2013.
Conveniently, Benda is unavailable to corroborate Rounds’ story. Also conveniently for Democrats, the race is a four-way race, with two rival conservatives splitting the vote.
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Yeah, we know how much Democrats hate that kind of corruption.
There’s always crap around this seat. These tiny little populations get run by crooks.
Fake, but accurate.
Doesn’t seem substantive enough to sink his bid for US Senator.
Wait....this is a resume enhancer, isn’t it? Oh....that’s right...just for Dims.
Actually, if I were a SD voter and conservative, I really could give a crap about this. When confronting a liberal, I’d likely say “so what? Your boy gave us Ebola!” :o)
So lets elect a democrat whose leader in washington doe this 1000 times as much
“Doesn’t seem substantive enough to sink his bid for US Senator.”
I thought the same thing after George Allen blurted out the word “macaca.” Americans don’t give GOPers the generous, forgiving response they do to democrats.
You should see the ads Mousy Michelle Martin nee’ Nunn is putting out here in Georgia...dredging up toothless old Democrat wimmens who had some beef against the Dollar General Corp he ran because they were denied “management” or something. Pathetic. Outsourcing...that’s their game and they think it’s a bad thing he done did..... meanwhile, I’m betting she ain’t gonna admit she ever voted for Obama.
October Surprise: All voting machines rigged to vote Democrat and it’s Toooo late to fix them ,a computer can be made to do what ever you want it to do
The story doesn’t sound like much. There was a benefit to a company in which the other guy’s new employer had an investment. Rather indirect.
Remember - It’s doesn’t matter if it is true or not.
It is the seriousness of the accusation that is important.
Unless the accused is a democrat.
That’s a scandal? Show me the cancelled checks made payable to the candidate. Show me the video of the candidate getting a bag of cash.
This kind of thing happens all the time in government. Now it is a scandal, how convenient is that?
The scu*bag Progressives are at it again
Didn’t they know about this before 2014?
(One hopes that this latest ploy doesn’t pass the smell test.)
IMHO
He didn’t even sign the loan or grant
Odd how this is so bad to the press and we hear mostly crickets about Hagan’s family getting stimulus money several times.
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