South Dakota Gov Confronted Head Of State Agency After Her Daughter Was Denied Real Estate License

The Associated Press reports:

Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran the agency, the woman’s direct supervisor and the state labor secretary. Noem’s daughter attended too. Kassidy Peters, then 26, ultimately obtained the certification in November 2020, four months after the meeting at her mother’s office.

A week after that, the labor secretary called the agency head, Sherry Bren, to demand her retirement, according to an age discrimination complaint Bren filed against the department. Bren, 70, ultimately left her job this past March after the state paid her $200,000 to withdraw the complaint. “The Associated Press is disparaging the Governor’s daughter in order to attack the Governor politically – no wonder Americans’ trust in the media is at an all-time low,” spokesman Ian Fury said.

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Days before Kristi Noem’s daughter was about to have her application for real estate appraiser denied for lack of qualifications, the head of the agency reviewing it was summoned to Noem’s office for a meeting. Miraculously, she suddenly became qualified. https://t.co/9KtZJQci5P

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 27, 2021