South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) says Kamala Harris isn’t relatable, and critics think she might need to do some introspection. “She has an inability to communicate common sense to the American people, they just can’t relate to her,” Noem told “Hannity” guest host Jason Chaffetz on Fox News Wednesday. “And so, you know, if […]
Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during a bill-signing ceremony March 6, 2024, at the Capitol in Pierre. (David Bordewyk/South Dakota NewsMedia Association) Severe weather brought a deluge to southeast South Dakota recently and exposed Gov. Kristi Noem’s faults. While the rain fell, she abandoned the state for a political conference and television interview. When catastrophic floodwaters […]
Tales of two protests in South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem’s new book don’t appear to match up with reality, a state lawmaker, a political expert and a Sioux Falls community advocate say. They’re calling into question Noem’s accounts of two Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, one based in Sioux Falls and the other […]
All nine South Dakota tribes have officially endorsed the banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s executive council voted Tuesday in favor of banishing the South Dakota governor from their reservation after she made disparaging remarks earlier this year against Native American parents during a town hall in Mitchell, saying […]
A May 4th Colorado GOP fundraiser, where Gov. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., was supposed to speak, was canceled due to threats sparked by her admission of killing her 14-month-old dog, Cricket. Nancy Pallozzi, Jefferson County Republican Party Chair, said in a statement posted on social media that the group had initially thought the timing for the […]
Your letters to the editor for May 5, 2024: Farmers understand Noem‘s puppy plight Well, the story of the day is that Kristi Noem shot a dog that was causing problems in the neighborhood. I suspect the dog was killing chickens, sheep or other livestock. That, for years, was the fate of a dog that. […]
Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre. But at Mar-a-Lago, even before the revelation about her dog, Noem had long ago been cast aside as a likely running mate, according to six people close […]
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem spelled out her future in politics for her constituents and the nation in three simple words: “No Going Back.” Perhaps more aptly, there may be no coming back from the immediate damage to Noem’s political career after the second-term governor’s account of killing a 14-month-old German Wirehaired Pointer was highlighted […]
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem posted a head-scratching video promoting a cosmetic dentistry practice in Texas. Now a member of the South Dakota Legislature is calling for an official inquiry into the Republican governor’s plug. Democratic state Sen. Reynold Nesiba told both The Associated Press and Dakota News Now on Wednesday that he’s asked the […]
A Democratic legislator on Wednesday called for an inquiry into South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem‘s trip to Texas for dental work and a promotional video in which she praises the doctors for giving her “a smile I can be proud of and confident in.” State Sen. Reynold Nesiba said he initially found the nearly […]
For the second time as governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem has been banished from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Last week, the Oglala Sioux Tribe said the Republican governor was no longer welcome on tribal lands, and its leaders referred to her rhetoric linking immigration and crime as opportunistic and dangerous. “Our people are […]