South Dakota Democratic Party closing Sioux Falls, Rapid City offices

[brooklynite]

Source: Argus-Leader

The South Dakota Democratic Party will no longer have a physical presence in the state.

The state party is closing its offices in Sioux Falls and Rapid City at the end of September, and party staff will begin working remotely due to the party's dwindling finances, according to SDDP Chair Paula Hawks. The party is also canceling a Black Hills fundraising event scheduled for next month. No layoffs related to the party's financial situation have taken place, Hawks said.

To get itself out of financial straits, Hawks said the party is setting fundraising goals and talking with the party's donors and Founders Club members.

"We are feeling very optimistic that we will be moving forward with strength and financial stability," Hawks said.

Read more: https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/30/south-dakota-democratic-party-closing-sioux-falls-rapid-city-offices/2163781001/

[RandySF]

1. And before we blame the DNC

...let’s look ourselves in the mirror.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Last I looked the great SD Democrat Tom Daschle was living in DC and a registered lobbyist for Aetna

Maybe he can go first with the mirror bit.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Ouch! True! nr

[BeyondGeography]

6. Looking every bit the part of a guy who left South Dakota behind a long time ago

[DFW]

10. The voters of South Dakota tossed Daschle out on his ass. I doubt he sees SD as "home" any more.

They got Thune instead, who has voted against the interests of the people of South Dakota with reliable consistency. They got what they wanted. I don't blame Tom Daschle for not going back there and opening a used car dealership in Sioux Falls.

As Ringo sang, "been away so long, I hardly knew the place....."

[BeyondGeography]

11. You cool with the Aetna piece too?

He and his wife the Lockheed lobbyist do make such a cute couple, I admit.

[DFW]

12. Not caring is more like it.

Like I said, the people of South Dakota got what a majority of them they voted for. Daschle didn't have some kind of gargantuan family fortune to fall back on, and our system doesn't shower former members of Congress with ridiculously huge tax-free pensions like the EU does. It's not like he imitated Gerhard Schröder.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Classic.

[IronLionZion]

2. There was a time when our Senate majority leader was from South Dakota

and Dems had won other statewide elections with strong support from Native American tribes. It's amazing how things have changed as our party seems to have abandoned many rural areas.

[groundloop]

4. Have we abandoned rural America, or has rural America abandoned us?

It seems to me that many rural Americans have simply bought into the right wing lies started by Saint Ronnie equating the repub party with religion and equating Democrats with abortion (not to mention the tax and spend bullshit).

[Progressive Jones]

7. The GOP knew exactly who the easiest marks were, and went after them. nt

[SharonAnn]

8. THe GOP has been very effective at disenfranchising the Native American tribes there.

[not_the_one]

13. and THIS is WHY there are red states

When the party divides up the country into us and them by disappearing from certain areas, we set ourselves up for a back and forth, constant ruling party swap, where there is no continuing, overall philosophy of governance.

The thing is, if the party showed they cared, and made sure the populace of those states knew what we represented, and didn't just hear the lies put out by the pukes, we may actually win them over.

All the red meat issues could be explained in a way that allow them to be found acceptable politically, although they may not be acceptable personally.