If you can’t win an election in your own state, you don’t bring much value to a national ticke
Posted on 01/16/2023 12:50:42 PM PST by 6thavenue
Even the frigid temperatures couldn’t keep angry South Dakotans away. Despite the blistering, nine-degree cold, as many as 150 people gathered in the snow outside the 2023 Midwest Gender Identity Summit in Sioux Falls Friday morning to protest Sanford Health’s unwelcome presence in their state. Standing by snow drifts, with a long convoy of cars heading to join them, organizer Adam Broin insisted, “This is NOT South Dakota!” But according to a bombshell report by NRO reporter Nate Hochman, it may already be South Dakota, thanks to the transgender movement’s unlikely ally: Republican Governor Kristi Noem.
For Noem, who’s been trying to rehabilitate her image for 2024 after a series of conservative betrayals, the timing of Hochman’s piece couldn’t be worse. Two years removed from her shocking veto on a girls’ sports bill — and three from her behind-the-scenes death blow to a ban on child-mutilating surgery — Noem was hoping she could put the questions about her bona-fides behind her. Instead, she’s staring down another career-crushing controversy over her cozy relationship to one of the largest providers of puberty blockers and sex change surgeries in the Midwest.
Of course, the ties between Sanford Health and the state’s establishment Republicans haven’t exactly been a secret in South Dakota. What has come as a surprise is just how deep those political tentacles run — often, as Hochman points out, dictating policies at complete odds with the states’ social conservative roots.
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Is she going to run against Trump in the primaries? Better not, because her record …
Gov. Noem, you’re saddling up on the wrong horse.
Give it some thought before you ‘go along to get along’.
If you go along on this, they own you.
If you support mutilating perfectly good kids... you are in no way conservative. Don’t even understand what it means.
So Noem would be a faker. I’m glad we found out.
she chose poorly
Weird.
This is the problem with all these “normals” on the national political scene (and Noem might be as normal as you’ll ever get in politics). They are basically flat broke, so they can only succeed in politics by selling out to people and business interests with a lot of money.
It sounds like it is also the elected Repubs in the state house.
A 5_2 vote to sink a bill to pause teens from trans surgery..Noem was not in on the vote
Yes she is beholden but apparently so are too many others in their House
Trump / Lake 2024
This woman is not right. And she is not honest on important matters.
My favorite thing about Trump will always be that he did not need their money.
Lake’s political career probably ended in November. If you can’t win an election in your own state, you don’t bring much value to a national ticket.
Exactly. That’s why I’m voting for him in 2024 even if he’s not on the ballot.
I think most everyone knows politicians are corrupt. What most don’t really understand is how extreme the corruption really is. You cannot get access to a politician today without paying cash money, they will not meet with anyone who hasn’t “donated” to their campaigns.
Just another Bush in a skirt. No thanks pervert neocon.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Yep, having FU money and your own 757 is a yuge strength in today’s Politics.
If you can’t win an election in your own state, you don’t bring much value to a national ticke
So many on our side are falling into the “Support DeSantis” trap. I believe the establishment will throw all their money and assistance into the governor’s presidential campaign with the hope of knocking Trump out of the primaries. If that happens they will then turn on DeSantis and push him out of the way for a more establishment roadie like Kristi Noem, Nikki Hailey or Mike Pompeo.
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