Posted on 01/15/2022 10:10:26 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
A new Gov. Noem campaign ad emerged Wednesday claiming she heroically stands for fairness in women’s sports. The ad falsely claims that she “never backed down” from protecting women’s sports here in South Dakota. As proof, it alluded to her ensuring boys and girls competed separately in 4-H rodeo.
This ad is incredibly disingenuous at best and gaslighting at worst. Let’s unpack these fabricated claims that the Governor desperately wishes were true.
First, let’s start with last year’s women’s sports bill that promoted fairness in women's sports. The South Dakota legislature put this strong bill on Gov. Noem’s desk prohibiting biological males from competing in women’s sports. It protected girls in K12 sports and college. She tweeted that she was “excited” to sign the bill. Well, she quickly changed her mind. She reversed course after getting woke pressure from people including Matt McCaulley, who double-dips as a Sandford Health lobbyist and a paid advisor to Gov. Noem, and D.C. elitist, Corey Lewandowski
After going back on her word, she took major heat from conservatives at the national and local levels. Trying to recover from her unforced error with her base, Gov. Noem then offered a “Style and Form Veto” to the legislature. This process allows a Governor to correct typographical errors like a mistaken code reference or a misplaced comma. Instead, her “style” revisions gutted protections for female college athletes to mollify corporate interests. The South Dakota legislature rejected her watered-down bill. It also gave her a civics lesson in the principle of checks and balances and "style and form" vetoes: executives don't make laws, legislatures do.
Second, that her ad claimed that she’s been defending girls’ sports for years – referring to 4-H rodeo – is incredibly misleading. Let’s clear this up. There was a 40-year-old controversy regarding an interpretation of Title IX by United State Department of Agriculture (USDA). Title IX “prohibits discrimination based on sex.”
Basically, bureaucrats in Washington attempted to make 4-H rodeo co-ed. Most South Dakotans know that most 4-H events are co-ed, like showing cattle, sheep and more. However, rodeo is split between boys and girls (only New Mexico and South Dakota even have 4-H rodeo). In 2017, Gov. Noem did reject this administrative interpretation. But note, there were no transgender activists involved, no corporate pressure. In 2017, she helped resolve an obscure bureaucratic disagreement over 4-H, hardly the courageous stand her new ad would have us believe. The ad is a half-cooked attempt to distract from her caving to corporate pressure in 2021.
Third, Gov. Noem’s ad claims that her new bill, which is similar to the one she essentially vetoed, is the “strongest law in the nation.” Well, this isn’t true either. It is a good bill, and I’m glad she’s bringing it. Women deserve protection from biological males stealing their titles and scholarships. But governors in states like Arkansas and Florida signed bills with much stronger legal options for harmed female athletes. So, let’s not kid ourselves. To top it off, the largest conservative law firm in the world, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), assisted with the bill language of last year’s women’s sports bill. One of the most well-respected legal organizations in the world would not be so careless as to support a bill that had such “economic, legal, and reputational threats” as Gov. Noem asserted.
My dad told me growing up that “you’re only as good as your word.” Well, Gov. Noem is only as good as hers.
Newsliars again with the cutesy trendy phraseology. If you think she’s lying then say that and back it up. Grrrrrrrr
I would say that the Rapid City Journal is doing all the gaslighting.
Norm buckled, and her appearance on Tucker was a disaster.
I would feel better if she traded Novembers races with Thune. He’s worse but the Senate is more important. It’s also unlikely a woman would want to leave home and serve in DC where she already spent time.
Precisely what was stated in the article that was not accurate?
Is every politician perfect on every issue? No, in fact, none of them are. The best way to decide is a list of issues and where they stand.
Just remember the old axiom: ‘the perfect is the enemy of the good.’ Demand perfection at any cost and you will end up with a far worse outcome.
‘Norm buckled, and her appearance on Tucker was a disaster.’
Buck Sexton eviscerated her on his radio show oer this issue, practically leaving her in tears...
She’s a good looking RINO/GOPe/ChamberofCommerce stooge that the folks who pull the strings are trying to force on us. Like damn near everyone else. The people don’t get to choose who they want. They get to pick whoever the puppet masters put up there for us.
She has, perhaps, two of the worst RINO/GOPe/ChamberofCommerce stooges representing SDakota in the US Senate.
That place appears to be a mess. Unfortunately, unless someone has the money to spend on a campaign or the people are willing to support a Conservative Non-Politician, this is what S Dakota and the rest of us get.
Every day, All day.
“I would feel better if she traded Novembers races with Thune. He’s worse but the Senate is more important.”
...and perhaps during a term or two in the Senate she’ll finally learn what her voters want.
But I like the idea too...she has value, but she’s nearly ready for what’s coming in DC.
“I would say that the Rapid City Journal is doing all the gaslighting.”
What part? She had a bill on her desk, and then...
Yep
Noem may have slipped up on woman sports. I've haven't confirmed all of the facts on the topic.
But it's worth noting that the Rapid City Journal has a record of gas lighting us about the 2020 election.
Just pointing that out.
That’s fair...and I didn’t read the article. But she did open herself up to the gaslighting charge by saying “never backed down” in the ad. She clearly did in that case, and there’s no way the media will let her spin it - that is, unless they choose her to be our candidate (which is quite possible).
Hmmm...
It almost seems that she keeps digging the “RINO hole” deeper & deeper...
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