Association of State Dem Chairs Endorses Dean

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Monday January 31, 2005 · 9:22 AM PST

2005/01/31 · 09:22

The word on the street is that the Association of State Democratic Chairs has just endorsed Howard Dean's bid for DNC chair.

This should, obviously, be a significant boost for his candidacy, as the ASDC has more actual votes than any other organization within the party, and the ASDC is a recognized part of the Democratic party establishment. This should also cause the anybody-but-Dean crowd to try to organize around a single candidate, but they are certainly running out of time, and the momentum seems to be in Dean's corner.

Resignations in Thune Voter Fraud Scandal

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Monday October 11, 2004 · 8:26 PM PDT

2004/10/11 · 20:26

Larry Russell, a former State Director for John Thune, and head of the South Dakota Republican Party's GOTV efforts resigned today in response to the criminal investigations into the voter fraud perpetrated by John Thune's nephew and a number of other state party employees.

The Senate, and House, races are extremely tight, and will probably come down to a few thousand votes. The resignation of the head of the Republican GOTV efforts 22 days before the election will have a major impact on the results for both Daschle and Herseth.

As I noted before, the chickens are coming home to roost.

Thune Voter Fraud Scandal Grows!!!

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Saturday October 09, 2004 · 11:44 AM PDT

2004/10/09 · 11:44

Earlier this week, John Thune, the man challenging Tom Daschle in South Dakota found himself in the midst of a family voter fraud scandal. The Thune campaign dismissed the report as a misstatement by a volunteer.

Now, it looks like the fraud is much more widespread than previously reported. According to today's Sioux Falls Argus Leader, the Secretary of State, and the Attorney General, are investigating the allegedly illegal actions of Jeff Thune, John Thune's nephew, and Rachel Hoff, a woman employed by the state Republican party. The fraud is allegedly happening in a number of communities across the state, and local auditors are holding questionable documents that seem to be illegally notarized.

Voter fraud is indeed serious, but there is real irony in John Thune breaking election laws. You may remember that Thune screamed voter fraud in his 2002 race in an effort to justify tactics to suppress the minority vote on South Dakota's Native American Reservations. The Republican Attorney general made clear that there was no widespread voter fraud in 2002, but the Republicans were out in force on the reseravations on election day, attempting to intimidate Native voters. They did the same during the Herseth special election. Read More

John Thune's Nephew Caught Committing Election Fraud!

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Wednesday October 06, 2004 · 5:00 PM PDT

2004/10/06 · 17:00

John Thune's nephew was caught by KELO-TV committing election fraud earlier today. The nephew of Tom Daschle's opponent said, on camera, that he was a notary public and had witnessed about 75 absentee ballot requests. The station checked the state database of notaries, however, and it turns out he is NOT a notary public.

KELO broke the story, and it led the local news. Video is available.

You may remember that John Thune made claims about widespread fraud in the 2002 race in Indian Country. The Republican Attorney General later admitted there was no widespread fraud. This time, it looks like the fraud is real... and pretty damn close to home. Update [2004-10-7 1:11:27 by sdindc]: The Sioux Falls Argus Leader confirms that Thune's nephew violated the law. If the people in the story are telling the truth, it's at least three counts.

Must See TV -- Video of Zell Miller Imploding on MSNBC!!!

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Thursday September 02, 2004 · 7:29 AM PDT

2004/09/02 · 07:29

This makes the CNN interview look sane. Angry? How about challenging Chris Matthews to a duel? Or saying that he wishes he was in the same room as Matthews so he could get up in his face? Maybe we shouldn't hate Zell so much... at this point, he's helping the cause.

Part 1 and Part 2

From South Dakota: Herseth Update

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Sunday May 30, 2004 · 7:39 PM PDT

2004/05/30 · 19:39

I am on the ground in Sioux Falls, and have to say that our people are everywhere. I've run into a handful of Republicans going door to door, but I think the most telling statistic is the story of the candidates.

Larry Diedrich spent tonight at a minor league baseball game. Because of threatening storms, the crowd was very, very small. He spent the first half hour of the game talking to one person. When the announcer said he was there, there was smattering of slight applause, and an equal number of grumbles and boos.

Stephanie Herseth is on the yep tour, and has been getting great responses around the state. Although they actually saw a funnel cloud touch down from the RV last night, they have been hitting their scheduled stops, and making a few unscheduled drop bys on the the way. She stopped by a cafe in a small town the other night and the whole place erupted into applause.
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Herseth Update...

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Thursday May 27, 2004 · 3:03 PM PDT

2004/05/27 · 15:03

The first wave of volunteers has hit the ground in South Dakota, and by the looks of things, the DCCC is loaded for bear.

Thanks to the South Dakota Republican Party you can see some of the vehicles they've already secured for GOTV efforts. 21st Century Democrats, who played a key role in Johnson's win last cycle, has some of their fantastic field organizers on the ground already. Additionally, the word on the street is that Diedrich's internal polls show him down nine points. Corroborating that story, Diedrich launched a new and desperate negative ad that compares Herseth to Hillary Clinton and calls her a <gasp> "Washington Lawyer." Unless a candidate is down by a significant margin, conventional wisdom is that you pull your negatives and put positives back up for the last four or five days (candidates generally can't change their ad traffic after COB Friday). Additionally, the NRCC press shop is quietly trying to lower expectations among reporters, saying, ridiculously, that the real battle is November and this race has no national implications.

Finally, as noted in Greg's Diary the big story of the day is the release of former Governor/Congressman/Felon Bill Janklow's secret pardon list. Given that Janklow was released from jail last week, and now we're finding out how Republican nepotism and favoritism works, this just isn't a good day for Larry Diedrich.

Zogby Shows Herseth Up 11

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Wednesday May 26, 2004 · 7:05 AM PDT

2004/05/26 · 07:05

The Rapid City Journal is reporting that Stephanie Herseth is leading her opponent 52% - 41% one week before the Special Election.

Given that the election is the day after Memorial Day, however, turnout is likely to make the difference. If you can spare any change or spare any time, your help could very well make the difference in a state that saw a Senate race decided by 524 votes less than two years ago.

Stephanie is a great candidate and will make a fantastic member of congress. Need another reason? As the Washington Times (their paper) notes, "If Democrats hope to win control of the House in November, it will be because candidates like Stephanie Herseth have a chance to win in states like South Dakota."

One More Poll, One Less Candidate in SD Senate

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Tuesday May 25, 2004 · 3:09 PM PDT

2004/05/25 · 15:09

Although everyone in the state is primarily focused on the Herseth/Diedrich race (as is kos), a couple of important develeopments are taking place in the Daschle/Thune race.

Last week, the Republicans gloated over poll numbers that showed the race at 2 points. They've been much more silent about a Zogby poll showing a thirteen point lead for Daschle. That poll essentially confirms numbers by Greenberg Quinlan released last week. The Mason-Dixon numbers last week look like an anomoly.

Additionally, the Libertarian/drug legalization advocate Bob Newland, dropped out of the race today after failing to gather the 3,300 signatures necessary to get on the ballot. Read More

Anti-dKos ads being tested in South Dakota

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Tuesday May 04, 2004 · 3:45 PM PDT

2004/05/04 · 15:45

Roll Call, as reported by the South Dakota Politics Blog reports that Stephanie Herseth's opponent is testing advertisements that attack her for affiliation with DailyKos.com.

In fact, the post actually suggests ad copy:
"Four Americans, shot, dragged from their vehicle, burned and mutilated by an Iraqi mob... And Stephanie Herseth's friend said, 'Screw them... Yes, a top Democrat website where Herseth raises tens of thousands of dollars sees brave Americans, who died to fight a war for freedom and says, 'Screw them...' And Stephanie keeps taking their money."

This is yet another attack leveled against Stephanie because of her affiliation with dKos. First, the South Dakota Republican Party attacked her support from the blog community, and then the right wing blogs in South Dakota attacked her running ads on dKos.

CAP Releases Right Wing Lie Database!

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Wednesday April 28, 2004 · 2:36 PM PDT

2004/04/28 · 14:36

The Center for American Progress has released the Claims vs. Facts Database and www.claimvfact.org. The database allows you to choose a topic, and a conservative speaker, to show what they said and why it's wrong.

This kind of information, made available to everyone, is exactly why we need groups like the Center for American Progress.

Have FUN!!!

Intelligence Failure? Must be Congress' Fault...

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Monday April 26, 2004 · 8:38 PM PDT

2004/04/26 · 20:38

The Washington Post will run a front page story tomorrow titled "Congressional Oversight of Intelligence Criticized." According to the article, although a number of members of Congress asked for access to intelligence documents related to 9/11, "[n]o more than six senators and a handful of House members read beyond the five-page National Intelligence Estimate executive summary." The article also notes that the Senate Intelligence Committee held only one or two meetings on al Qaeda in the months leading up to 9/11.

This tactic is pretty transparent. The fact is, the CIA is an Executive Branch agency. Congress can not direct the CIA to take any action or to change any policy, and the congressional inteligence committees do not receive nearly the amount of data and information as the President. Unlike the Executive Branch, there is no evidence that Congress received word that al Qaeda was planning imminent attacks in the United States, that al Qaeda had discussed flying airplanes into buildings, or that al Qaeda operatives were taking flight lessons in the United States.

While it is a bit embarassing that so many members of Congress would vote to send our troops to war without even bothering to look at the intelligence concerning WMD's (the argument that they are too busy being bothered with pesky constituent meetings is almost as lame as whatever the hell it is Chuck Schumer is trying to say), this article is part of a calculated GOP plan to shift attention away from Bush's failure to act on the pre-9/11 intelligence that pointed to an attack by al Qaeda.

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