July 10th, 2008 by Bob Schwartz
It isn’t often South Dakota comes in first in anything but South Dakota’s own Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has been crowned the queen of pork by the Citizens Against Government Waste in their Energy and Water category.
The top five porkers for Energy and Water are Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-S.D.) with $32.3 million; Rep. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) with $28.5 million; House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) with $27.62 million; House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member David Hobson (R-Ohio) with $27.6 million; and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) with $25 million.
Way to make us proud Stephanie, first you vote to promote spying on us by changing your vote after collecting $6000 in contributions from the telcom’s that now have immunity and now this.
Note: I haven’t found a searchable breakdown (there is a pdf file) of what they have as pork attributed to Herseth Sandlin but I’d bet that Lewis and Clark is a big part of it.
July 6th, 2008 by Bob Schwartz
I read this on KELO a few days ago but something struck me as just not right. The article discusses how the 4th of July holiday weekend was expected to bring in around 100,000 tourists to South Dakota’s Black Hills and is the busiest weekend of the year for the area’s tourism season.
Bill Honerkamp of the Black Hills, Badlands, and Lakes Association says this weekend is the busiest time of the year for the Black Hills tourism industry.
Busiest weekend? Is Mr Honerkamp forgetting this event that has been happening every August in the Black Hills since 1938? It only just about doubles the population of the state and encompasses several weekends.
Average Rally attendance is in the hundreds of thousands, with the largest estimated attendance of more than 600,000 cruising in for the 60th Anniversary in 2000. Attend the Rally once, and it becomes clear why this slightly out-of-the-way place has become a mandatory destination for so many motorcyclists.
Or maybe it is just a biker thing…not quite the family oriented event that the tourism board likes to promote in the press is it?