Posted on 08/26/2021 9:22:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem claimed in a podcast interview published Thursday she never planned to sign a transgender sports bill to protect female athletes.
Noem was pressed over the debacle that began to sink her political stardom on the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” Sexton brought up the issue in the context of the governor turning down piece after piece of legislation that protected individual liberties from vaccine mandates and erasure of women’s sports.
“By the way, you said you would sign the trans bill, and then backed off of it, we know that happened,” Sexton said.
“That is not true, Buck,” Noem responded, months after she reneged on that exact pledge.
“In South Dakota, we’re celebrating #InternationalWomensDay by defending women’s sports!” Noem wrote in a March 8 post responding to the successful passage of the Women’s Fairness in Sports bill. “I’m excited to sign this bill very soon.”
In South Dakota, we're celebrating #InternationalWomensDay by defending women's sports! I'm excited to sign this bill very soon. https://t.co/OU15HOwp2r
— Governor Kristi Noem (@govkristinoem) March 8, 2021
The next week, Noem issued a “style and form” veto of the legislation which would have barred males from competing among female athletes. Noem sent the bill back to the legislature with edits that would gut the law’s mechanisms for enforcement. The changes were rejected by the South Dakota House of Representatives.
Noem changed her position on the bill after intense lobbying by the state Chamber of Commerce and other powerful business groups, raising hysteria the legislation would provoke a corporate boycott. The governor’s own advisers include business leaders who opposed the bill.
After she effectively vetoed the legislation she had promised to sign days earlier, the governor who ascended to GOP stardom for her adamant rejection of coronavirus lockdowns tried to save her political ambitions with claims the law as written would have invited an avalanche of unwinnable litigation.
“I’ve been bullied for the last year by liberals,” Noem said on a Fox News appearance with Tucker Carlson, later framing herself as a victim of cancel culture as grassroots opposition tanked her influence within the GOP. “I’m not going to let anybody from the NCAA, from any big business, I’m not even gonna let conservatives on the right bully me.”
Federalist Staff Writer Jordan Davidson branded Noem’s claim of cancellation as, “merely a mask for the fact that a once-up-and-coming politician favored for a national stage is learning that her actions have consequences, especially when she backtracks on her word.”
Noem’s office did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
Noem, once thought to be a Promising Conservative, revealed herself to be nothing more than another Finger in the Wind Politician.
One of the most endearing things about Donald Trump is, he is NOT a Finger in the Wind politician.
Proof? The man honestly believes his operation to fast-track the Wuhan Virus “vaccine” was a good thing. Despite the majority of his fervent supporters disagreeing.
He was Booed in Alabama for mentioning it. He’s not a clueless politician. He knows it’s very unpopular in many circles. Yet, he believes it is a good thing. He has personally been injected with the “vaccine”. Knowing all this he mentioned it anyway.
No Politician with their Finger in the Wind would ever dare to do such a thing.
Then, he stated, while he personally believes in the “vaccine” he said, unquestionably, that to get it or not is an Individual Choice. Not the Gov’ts business.
Glad we found out she is a fraud like Nimrata Randhawa.
RE: Glad we found out she is a fraud like Nimrata Randhawa.
WHO ???
Look her up.
I think it’s Nikki Haley
I like Kristi Noem, she is a happy warrior, mostly competent as an administrator, speaks quite effectively on some subjects. Not every subject, but that’s ok by me.
That said, she just doesn’t have it in her to be the type of leader that I personally think America needs right now on a national level. That’s ok, there are more players on a football team than a quarterback and not everyone has to be the next savior. If you want to build a real majority against an ideology what can accept all manner of differences so long as they agree to work in the same direction, you can’t do it by cutting people out who don’t walk lockstep with you.
Even Lindsey Graham got on the Trump train for a while.
Ms Styles & Revisions — huge disappointment.
WTF!!!
He only got on to see how he could wreck it.
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Former Governor and Ambassador Nimrata (Nikki) Randhawa Haley. Nikki is of Sikh origin.
I hate to say it, but the social always influences the conformist knee jerk in women. Only masculine women like Ayn Rand or Ann Barnhardt breath fire against this propensity, while most men remain gelded, clueless or naive about women in that matter.
When that woman took down that confed flag from the State Capitol, from the get go I knew she was globalist anti culture, or at least other cultures not her own.
That’s when I recognized her as a fraud.
Flimsey Grahamnesty faked like he was on the Trump train for a while.
Don’t be easily fooled.
Nikki Haley, the Confederate statues and heritage destroyer.
She looks like an android in this photo.
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