In 2020, Governor Kristi Noem famously asked South Dakotans to put on 'positive pants' to fight coronavirus. Since then, we've thought about her having positive pants on fire. She put on another pair today.
Earlier today, Cory Allen Heidelberger posted in Noem Says Smith Getting $10M from National Democratic Establishment at Dakota Free Press:
. . . $10 million is still about a million shy of the amount Noem raised through her South Dakota campaign fund in 2021 and up to mid-May of 2022.
I am curious, though, what Noem knows about Jamie Smith’s campaign finances that we don’t. As Bob Mercer reports, Kristi Noem is the only candidate getting multi-million-dollar checks from any national governors’ group
Kristi Noem has received at least $2,680,000 since 2020 from the Republican Governors Association’s Right Turn political action committee as she seeks election to a second term this November as South Dakota’s governor.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Governors Association hasn’t decided yet whether its political action committee, Democratic Action, should spend any money helping her Democrat opponent, state Representative Jamie Smith.
“As Smith continues to run a strong, grassroots-backed race, the DGA is constantly evaluating the best ways to ensure we deploy resources when they have the biggest impact,” DGA deputy communications director Sam Newton said Wednesday [Bob Mercer, “DGA Undecided on Helping Smith’s Run for SD Governor,” KELO-TV, updated 2022.10.06].
Wow: if Jamie Smith can get to a statistical dead heat with Noem without any help from the DGA, he should be able to get over the top with $10 million in DGA support! . . .
Now Smith has replied via tweet:
Our grassroots campaign started with $10,000. Kristi Noem's campaign started with $14 million.
— Jamie Smith for SD Governor (@RepJamieSmith) October 7, 2022
Today, she released an email claiming that we were given a gift of $10 million from national groups. We weren’t.
She's willing to lie to her own supporters in order to make money. pic.twitter.com/HH39454ZWG
No wonder her campaign communications guy had to mean tweet about that SDSU poll.
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