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.
She screwed up the transgender bill for sure. She did react to Covid in the best possible way though and took heat for it.
There will never be a perfect political leader. Not even Trump, for all the Trump worshippers out there. Noem is good, right where she is. SD is a mostly free state, can’t ask for much better than that.
I don’t know why people try to defend her.
She’s dead in the water and deserves to be.
She showed who she aligns with and answers to.
Noem is a MAGA supporter.
As such she has all of these little lefty Rapld City Marxist
pseudi journalists, who are really propagandistsm cranked up and hooting like vampires for blood.
Problem is, Noem has an arsnel of shooters and silver bullets.
Sorry Kristi but no amount of backpedaling will get people to forget who you really are.
One more thing Kristi-—when you bring up the topic of girl’s sports it only serves to remind us what a horrible person you are.
Moles and Trolls trying to divide the conservatives.
1. Purists: “Don’t vote for Noem! She hasn’t been on board 100%”
2. Democrats win
3. Democrats take guns
4. Purists: “Wha’ happen?”
How many mutant males in South Dakota were competing in girls' sports when the legislature drafted that bill in the first place?
This has all been nothing more than self-aggrandizing politics, with state legislators pushing each other out of the way to get in front of an issue that had been fabricated from the ground up.
Unfortunately she can’t make radio yakkers understand the strategy of her position. But it doesn’t matter in the end.
Norm KNEW that she was caving, IMO, unlike Thine, who doesn’t seem to have a clue that we are in a Constitutional crisis.
Damn auto-correct. NOEM!!!
Well, if her strategy is that it's more important to satisfy the Chamber of Commerce than the people of her state...
“for all the Trump worshippers out there”
You’d do better here skipping this part, as you NAIL IT saying that she’s good for SD (whether Governor or US Senator).
—yeah—maybe some of the stupid ———s on this thread would like another Tom Daschle—
1. Purists: “Don’t vote for Noem! She hasn’t been on board 100%”
2. Democrats win
3. Democrats take guns
4. Purists: “Wha’ happen?”
N A I L E D IT
“This has all been nothing more than self-aggrandizing politics, with state legislators pushing each other out of the way to get in front of an issue that had been fabricated from the ground up.”
So you’re saying that if she signed it, it wouldn’t have affected anything (since the guy is in Pennsylvania).
If so, then why not sign it? After all it’s harmless, other than maybe having to divert a couple of lawyers already on the state payroll to defend it.
Bingo.
“Well, if her strategy is that it’s more important to satisfy the Chamber of Commerce than the people of her state...”
Let’s not be too tough. EVERY politician (other than the super-wealthy, like Trump) has to decide whether to support the people who vote for her(him) or the people who do the financing. She made her choice (obviously).
It’s sad, though. If people here, for example, would send money to deserving candidates (instead of trying to die with the biggest estate on the block), perhaps we’d have more control over the people who represent us.
Lefty journalists dont criticize from the right. Ever.
try looking past her good teeth and nice figure. She can call Herself MAGA all she wants but when the Chamber of Commerce says jump, she says how how.
The axiom is sound but it presumes the ability to discern what “the good” really is.
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3946413/posts
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3945626/posts
03/23/2021
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3944550/posts
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