By Ed Randazzo
As a result of the of the SD 2009 election, Democrats hold 5 of the 35 SD Senate seats and 19 of the SD House seats. What are the SD Democrats doing to prevent another shellacking in 2012?
Not much.
Apparently the chairman of the SD Democratic Party is simply counting on a backlash from voters who will have felt the effects of the budget cuts taken in 2011. They will roll out the old charges of mean-spirited insensitivity against the Republicans.
SD Democratic Party Chairman Ben Nesselhuf says “I think you’re going to see the real impact of this year’s budget which will be hitting hard during the campaign next year.” Of course it will, Ben. It is the unpalatable but necessary price we all have to pay to offset the structural deficit. Budgets are not cut back without pain. The voters of SD knew that cuts had to be made and they elected the super majority of Republicans because they believed that GOP plan for eliminating the deficit by budget cuts, not tax increases or the raiding of reserves, was the wise and prudent policy to pursue.
Instead of strategizing for a winning policy in 2012, the SD Democratic Party leadership should concentrate on sound fiscal policy or they could wind up even more irrelevent in SD government.
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