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This ought to make the anti-video lottery lobby’s day and get us all a big “I told you so!”. The Rapid City Journal is quoting Steve Hildebrand as saying former employee and political blogger Chad Schuldt’s addiction to video lottery led to him steal over $100,000 from Hildebrand-Tewes.
Sioux Falls political consultant Steve Hildebrand said [...]

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The Argus bashing over the Hildebrand-Tewes embezzlement scandal continues from all fronts and KELO-AM’s Greg Belfrage puts in his 2 cents and rips the Argus for not reporting on Steve Hildebrand’s naming of the suspect, Chad Schuldt.
Don’t you find it ironic that those of us with other full-time employment still managed to get this [...]

I did get a response from one media outlet, not the Argus by the way, and they said that while they are monitoring this issue closely, they are waiting for criminal charges to be filed before running it and I would be willing to bet that is probably the case for most MSM outfits in [...]

Would anyone be there to write about it? PP stole my thunder as I was going to ask the same questions as to why the South Dakota Media has avoided the Hildebrand Tewes embezzlement scandal and I do have a few emails out to some in the MSM that I am sure will be ignored [...]

I wrote earlier about the place that blogs hold in the world of news and politics and the story about the embezzlement scandal at Hildebrand Tewes is another perfect example of the part that blogs play.
Even though the story was initially broken by the MSM when the Argus wrote about it a few days [...]

From Roll Call:
Steve Hildebrand, founding partner of the Democratic consulting firm Hildebrand Tewes and key adviser to Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) presidential campaign, confirmed Thursday that Chad Schuldt was fired from his firm for allegedly embezzling “over $100,000.”
The cat is out of the bag and all the speculation it seems was true, the Clean Cut [...]

The update is that there is no update. The article in last night’s Argus claimed that there would be a follow-up on the breaking story of $100,000 missing from Hildebrand Tewes Consulting in today’s edition. This morning’s dead tree edition has nothing new on this story in a short article which has yet to make [...]

The Argus has breaking news regarding one of South Dakota’s most well known Democratic consulting firms, Hildebrand Tewes Consulting Inc.
An employee of Hildebrand Tewes Consulting Inc., a prominent South Dakota political consulting firm whose clients include presidential candidate Barack Obama, has been fired after more than $100,000 was discovered missing, according to a partner in [...]

h/t South Dakota Politics
A Tim Johnson staffer is quoted as saying that the Senator could be back sometime after Labor Day.
A staff person for Senator Tim Johnson says he expects to return to the U.S. Senate sometime after Labor Day.
Sharon Stroschein, who is the Northeast Area Director of Johnson’s Aberdeen office, told Pierre city commissioners [...]

Democrat and Former District 8 House Member Gerald Lange thinks almost 30 years of GOP leadership is enough and it’s time to clean house so to speak. Lange, who is probably best known for introducing a bill in 2005 (HB 1109) to legalize marijuana for medical use and then “surprisingly” losing his re-election bid a [...]

The second to get in line for the Republican nomination for Tim Johnson’s Senate seat has filed declaration of candidacy forms with the FEC. Canton’s State Representative Joel Dykstra joins Spearfish’s Sam Kephart in the run for the GOP nomination.
Johnson whom hasn’t announced whether he would be seeking re-election and hasn’t been seen in public [...]

Now that Alan Hanks has won a heated and at times nasty runoff election for Rapid City Mayor over Sam Kooiker, he has announced that he will give up his District 32 seat tomorrow instead of holding on to it for a few months as he had originally considered doing.
On Election Night last week he [...]