Tag Archives: Kristi Noem

Noem’s Daughter To Surrender Real Estate License

The Associated Press reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s daughter on Tuesday said she would quit the real estate appraiser business following scrutiny over whether her mother used her influence to aid her application for an appraiser license. Noem’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, slammed a legislative inquiry and news reporting on the episode in a letter to Secretary of Labor Marcia …

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SD Gov Denies “Special Treatment” For Her Daughter

Mediaite reports: Embattled South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) posted a video message on Friday amid the scrutiny over the alleged forced retirement of the woman who headed the state’s real estate appraiser certification program. Noem’s daughter, Kassidy Peters, was initially denied her certification but received it months later, after Noem summoned the program head to her office. “We’ve been …

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SD Gov Screams “Total Garbage” After MAGA Site Claims She’s Having Affair With Corey Lewandowski

From the right wing site American Greatness: Multiple sources have informed American Greatness that South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is having an extramarital affair with adviser Corey Lewandowski, who previously served as a campaign manager for Donald Trump. The alleged fling reportedly has continued for months, sources say. Lewandowski accompanied Noem across the country as she stumped for Trump’s reelection …

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SD AG To Review Noem’s Meeting With Her Daughter

The Associated Press reports: South Dakota’s attorney general said Tuesday he is reviewing concerns from state lawmakers over a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included both her daughter and a state employee who was overseeing her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser. “I have been contacted by concerned citizens and legislators,” Attorney General Jason …

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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 …

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South Dakota Gov Vows To Inflict Christian Prayer On Public Schools: “We Will Stand For Biblical Principles”

“We’ve seen our society, our culture, degrade as we’ve removed God out of our lives. When I was growing up, we spent every Sunday, every night, every Wednesday night in church. “Our church family was a part of our life. We read the Bible every day, as a family, together. I don’t know if families do that as much anymore, …

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SD Gov Lashes Out At Right Wing Host After He Claims She Only Has “Hype” Because She Is “Very Attractive”

“No use for these Republicans who have made themselves useless. No use for Kristi Noem. Kristi Noem is a very attractive woman. So, she’s got that going for her. As far as I can tell that’s the only reason she was ever looked at as some sort of 2024 potential front runner. “The hype and everything that she’s gotten from …

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South Dakota Gov: No Plan To Address Delta Variant

The Associated Press reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she has no plans to ratchet up her messaging to urge people to get a COVID-19 vaccine, even as Republican leaders across the country try to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots in response to a new, more contagious variant that has sent caseloads …

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Noem Attacks Fellow GOP Govs Over COVID Mandates

The Hill reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) knocked her fellow GOP governors during a speech on Sunday at a conservative conference, criticizing them for COVID-19 mandates imposed amid the pandemic. “We’ve got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn’t shut down their states; that they didn’t close their regions; that they didn’t mandate masks. Now I’m not …

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SD Gov Sees Backlash After “California Sucks” Post

The Daily Beast reports: Kristi Noem, once the GOP’s shining star, now seems to be trying to find any way to insert herself into the conversation. Noem posted a photo on her official government Facebook last week of a car parked at Mt Rushmore with a message scrawled on the window that said its owner had “escaped communism” and “returned …

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GOP Gov Rips Renting Out Of Troops: “Bad Precedent”

The Hill reports: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) said Sunday said that sending a state’s National Guard to the U.S-Mexico border using money from a private donor sets a “bad precedent.” In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Dana Bash cited South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) use of funding from Tennessee billionaire Willis Johnson to send …

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Dem Rep Seeks To Stop Rentals Of National Guard

Politico reports: Rep. Adam Smith, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said on Wednesday that he would press Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin about reports that the governor of South Dakota accepted private donations to fund the deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border. When asked about Gov. Kristi Noem’s move during an interview on NBC’s “Meet …

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Billionaire Claims He’s Renting South Dakota’s National Guard Because Joe Biden Doesn’t Want To Help America

Talking Points Memo reports: The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota’s deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because “this President would rather help other countries than help America.” “I fought in Vietnam and a lot of my buddies died over there,” Willis Johnson told …

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A Billionaire GOP Megadonor Is Paying For South Dakota Gov To Send State National Guard To The Mexico Border

Axios reports: A Tennessee billionaire and high-dollar Republican donor is funding the deployment of South Dakota National Guard troops to the U.S. Mexico border. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who’s gaining attention as a possible 2024 presidential contender, made a splash on Tuesday with an announcement that she was deploying an unspecified number of National Guard troops to the border …

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SD Gov Claims “Private Donation” Will Pay For Sending State Troops To Mexican Border, Democrats Cry Foul

Via press release from South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem: Today, Governor Kristi Noem announced that up to fifty South Dakota National Guard troops are being deployed to Texas to help the secure the border between the United States and Mexico. This is in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request for help to respond to ongoing violations of state and …

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SD Gov Claims Reba McEntire Will Headline Fundraiser, Reba Says She Knows Nothing About It And Won’t Do It

The Daily Beast reports: Country superstar Reba McEntire was billed at one of the special guests at a fundraiser for South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem—but she says she isn’t attending and didn’t even know about it. Noem’s spokesman, Ian Fury, said in a statement that the campaign had “written confirmation” that McEntire would be taking part. “I’d add that the …

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SD Gov Stranded After Lindell Tossed From GOP Event

Politico reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem flew on MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s private jet on her way to the Republican Governors Association spring meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, this week, according to two people familiar with the matter. Lindell, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, was kicked out of the event after he had promised to confront Arizona …

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Ted Nugent Flew With SD Gov While Sick With COVID

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing rocker Ted Nugent expressed not a peep of concern for anybody he might have infected as he announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19. “I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days,” Nugent reported via Facebook Live on Monday evening. “I thought I was dying.” That timing meant the people who had …

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South Dakota Governor Refuses To Accept Migrants: You Can Tell Them To Call Me When They’re Real Americans

The Argus Leader reports: South Dakota is home to an estimated 5,000 undocumented immigrants. But Gov. Kristi Noem says those people along with any migrants right now in custody of the federal government at the southern border are not welcome in South Dakota. “South Dakota won’t be taking any illegal immigrants that the Biden Administration wants to relocate,” the first-term …

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Noem “Shocked” By Meaning Of Infrastructure [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a rising Republican star and potential 2024 presidential candidate, appeared flummoxed on Wednesday night over the fact that much of the spending in the Biden administration’s proposed infrastructure bill goes to, well, infrastructure. “I was on a call with the White House today with all of the governors talking about the …

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