UPDATE South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Damages Herself and harms all women by her betrayal
Update from previous post: "Kristi Noem is a liar and fraud who is caught up with allegations of nepotism in appointing relatives to government as Governor and is denying rumors she is in a relationship with a political consultant who himself is a focus of allegations in another unrelated incident. She continues to betray all moral Conservatives who demand women be protected in women's sports," says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
REPOST FROM APRIL 2, 2021
Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate said "Public Advocate swiftly condemned the announcement to veto the bill passed by South Dakota legislators to bar men in women's sports from the start. We asked our supporters nationwide several times to demand Kristi Noem sign the bill and thank the legislators for not allowing her public deception and constant blatant betrayal of all women on the last day of their session."
The
Federalist's
Joy
Pullman
reports:
Kristi Noem Has No Good Explanations For Vetoing The Girls' Sports Bill
To truly fight, Gov. Kristi Noem should have signed the bill and demanded her state legislature pass more, such as a ban on the transgender mutilation of minors.
Since
reversing
her
support
to
finally
veto
a
bill
that
would
have
required
only
females
to
play
on
female
sports
teams,
South
Dakota
Kristi
Noem
has
kicked
up
a
whirlwind
of
rhetorical
dirt
about
her
decision.
It
all
seems
designed
to
confuse
people
about
the
key
fact
that
she
had
a
bill
on
her
desk
that
would
have
outlawed
males
unfairly
playing
girls,
and
she
vetoed
it.
Many of her arguments for this decision contradict themselves, or her own actions. For example, Noem has repeatedly claimed that she has spent "months" examining this issue. At National Review Online Tuesday, she wrote, "Since November, my team and I have worked to find the best way to defend women's sports effectively- not just to feel good, but to do good. We have to be able to win in court. It is for that reason that I asked the South Dakota state legislature to make revisions to HB 1217."
This statement seems reasonable until you contrast it with the fact that just a few weeks ago Noem publicly stated that she supported HB 1217 as passed by the legislature and looked forward to signing it "very soon." If she had been examining the issue "Since November," what, then, explains her public endorsement of the bill four months later in March, then her swift reversal just a week after that public endorsement?
The only way to reconcile these two claims while assuming her honesty is for her alleged months of work and consultation with "legal scholars" to have led to her support for the bill that she announced in March. Yet that's not what she ultimately followed through on, which leads one to believe she's not telling the truth about her "work" on this issue "since November." The only way to reasonably put these two items together, then, is to surmise Noem changed her position for political reasons and is attempting to cover it up.
That's not the only self-contradiction she's engaged in during this whole affair. Another is her claim that a major reason she vetoed the legislation is the threat of lawsuits.
As passed, this bill was a trial lawyer's dream. It would have immediately been enjoined had I signed it into law, meaning that no girls in South Dakota would have been protected," she writes. Her article repeatedly alleges these potential legal threats yet never once explains from whence she believes they stem.
Based on the fact that other states have passed similar laws, including just last week Arkansas, one might surmise that other governors don't believe these laws present trial lawyer bonanzas, or are not afraid of them. In Idaho, which passed the first girls' sports protection bill, the NCAA has not sued nor withdrawn from the state, which Noem alleged on Tucker Carlson might happen in South Dakota.
THERE IS A LOT MORE HERE at the Federalist.
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