Posted on 06/05/2024 4:05:56 AM PDT by cotton1706
At least 14 Republican legislators lost their races Tuesday in the 2024 primary election, with a controversial carbon dioxide pipeline among the top wedge issues to emerge.
Voters also ousted two of the state’s Native American lawmakers (a mother and son), and brought back a Republican who served as speaker of the House until two years ago.
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The current legislators who lost their races, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s Office:
Sen. Erin Tobin, R-Winner, fell by 48 votes (which is within the possible recount margin) to a political newcomer from Bonesteel named Mykala Voita, who campaigned on the primacy of landowner rights.
Sen. Jean Hunhoff, R-Yankton, who’s served more than two decades between stints in the House and Senate, lost her latest bid for reelection to newcomer Lauren Nelson, 52% to 48%.
Rep. Byron Callies, R-Watertown, lost by 21 votes (pending a possible recount) to a Hayti doctor named Josephine Garcia, who spoke out against carbon pipelines and the Landowner Bill of Rights. Also winning a seat in the district was the top vote-getter, former Watertown City Attorney Matt Roby.
Rep. Tyler Tordsen, R-Sioux Falls, a Native American member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, lost his race by coming in third with 26% of the votes behind the second-place finisher, Sioux Falls businessman and prominent member of the Catholic community Tony Kayser (35%), and first-place finisher Rep. Taylor Rehfeldt, R-Sioux Falls (39%).
Tordsen’s mother and fellow Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate member, Tamara St. John, R-Sisseton, also came in third place in her race with 28% of the vote, losing to Logan Manhart (38%) and Christopher Reder (34%) in northeastern South Dakota’s District 1.
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More of this, please!
Rotation in office is a key to Liberty.
Most important is “who won?”
It would be interesting to know more about these issues.
Being against the Carbon pipeline seems to be a no brainer but the Landowner Bill of Rights seems counter intuitive. But the Devil is always in the details.
Politicians, more often than not, label a bill as exactly what it is not.
They lost to Democrats?
Primary election, they lost to other Republicans
Do you see this kind of turnover on the Democrat side? The Leftist Borg always seem united, with one purpose...to crush the Republicans. Republicans, on the other hand, only seem interested in crushing each other.
NYT:
The idea of using technology to suck carbon dioxide from the sky has gone from science fiction to big business. Hundreds of start-ups have emerged. The Biden administration in August awarded $1.2 billion to help several companies, including Heirloom, build larger direct air capture plants in Texas and Louisiana. Companies like Airbus and JPMorgan Chase are spending millions to buy carbon removal credits in order to fulfill corporate climate pledges.
Critics point out that many artificial methods of removing carbon dioxide from the air are wildly expensive, in the range of $600 per ton or higher...”
Heirloom won’t disclose its exact costs, but experts estimate that direct air capture currently costs around $600 to $1,000 per ton of carbon dioxide, making it by far the most expensive way to curb emissions, even after new federal tax credits worth up to $180 per ton.’
What a racket!!!
In this case, nearly all South Dakota legislators (not to mention U.S. senators and congressmen) qualify as RINOs. Hunhoff is one of the worst, so good riddance. Tordsen, among the losers, was the closest thing to a non-RINO.
Tordsen's seat in the southeastern part of Sioux Falls is also the one (among the 4 losers) which is NOT pretty much totally safe in November. It's still reasonably safe, but not a complete slam-dunk (only rated as R+5).
If only there were something from nature that takes it out of the air.
If history is any indication, a bill titled this way would actually strip away any last remnants of landowner rights.
“If only there were something from nature that takes it out of the air...”
Of course Mother Gaea has that covered ... if only leftists really believed any of the crap they espouse.
*Rotation in office is a key to Liberty.*
Never looked at it that way but very true. John Thune got stale in his 2nd term. Perhaps the voters didn’t want to take that risk and end up with another tiny Tom Daschle. The current house member-next in line-is a squish. A Jesse Helms had a scare when a black Charlotte mayor went against him so there is something to be said about lightening up while still remaining firm. MTG should never be a senator. Ted Cruz is as firm as we want to get-articulation is a big plus.
Never looked at it that way but very true. John Thune got stale in his 2nd term. Perhaps the voters didn’t want to take that risk and end up with another tiny Tom Daschle.
In South Dakota, the Credit Card companies call the shots.
But how do you expect them to spread tax pater money and get ‘contributions’ from their cronies if plants are used? You would leave them penniless! j/k
From the article is was pretty clear that the landowner bill of rights was written to allow the pipeline to be built. Your intuition is correct. When you read the bills name you know the actual contents of the bill is the opposite.
It seems from the article that the republican communists mostly lost. The same type of purge of republican communists need to occur here in PA as well.
The idea of using technology to suck carbon dioxide from the sky has gone from science fiction to big corrupt government handouts. fixed it
In this case, nearly all South Dakota legislators (not to mention U.S. senators and congressmen) qualify as RINOs. >>>> I’m from PA and here the RINOs are actually communists. And most are baby killers as well.
Speaking of corruption, here in Ag land, we’re waiting for the details for the Ag carbon market, (ugh)
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