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John Thune waited until January 5, 2004, to announce that he would challenge the most powerful Democrat in America for his Senate seat. Yesterday, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin announced her intention to seek reëlection to her relatively safe House seat, a full six months earlier in the current election cycle. Is that early enough for all you complainers?
Ah, the good old days, when an election year was just one year.
Update II: The Sioux Falls City Council meeting tonight was truly
disgusting. I felt like throwing up afterwards.
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UPDATE II: I decided to see if the 50% rule has even been used since it was
implemented in 2017. It has ONLY applied ONE time, and that was in 2024 and
the...
6 days ago
Actually, I don't believe petitions can be legally circulated until January 2010.
ReplyDeleteGood point! I stand corrected: only 8.5 months left to think about circulating petitions for 2010 candidacy (on a party ballot).
ReplyDeleteComplainers? If you're referring to Republican complaints, I haven't heard any. The Democrats who want to announce for Governor are the ones pushing Stephanie to get off the fence so they can get their PR rolling. There are already four announced gubernatorial candidates in SD and there will soon be more from the other side of the aisle, or in Heidepriem's case, both sides of the aisle since he was once a Republican, now a Democrat. Reminds me of a certain blogger.
ReplyDelete[Coincidentally, Heidepriem was also a fan of Senator Mundt in his youth.]
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