If we are to believe last week’s statement, we can only conclude that “always” ended yesterday. Noem said last week she has “always” been with the landowners. Governor Noem had time to run to her private Capitol video studio to holler on Fox and Friends about Ben and Jerry’s, but she did not have time to receive the 2,000-signature petition the protestors delivered to her desk calling for a Special Session on eminent domain. Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids), Karla Lems (R-16/Canton), and Scott Odenbach (R-31/Spearfish) showed their support for landowners over Republican corporate raiders from Iowa. įischbach and fellow Democrat Representative Oren Lesmeister (D-28A/Parade) spoke at the rally. “We need your actions to speak louder than your words”. “Governor Noem, you say you stand with us,” said rally speaker Ed Fischbach, an Aberdeen-area farmer whose land is near a proposed pipeline route. Kristi Noem to call a special legislative session to address the issue. Lawmakers, landowners and concerned citizens from across the political spectrum called on Republican Gov. “ Well, I’m with the landowners and always have been,” Governor Kristi Noem said on the radio last week in response to a reporter’s question about her absence from the fight over eminent domain for private carbon-dioxide pipelines.īut she wasn’t with the landowners yesterday at the protest they held in the Capitol Rotunda fifty paces from her Second Floor office:Ībout 250 people descended on the state Capitol on Thursday, demanding a prohibition against carbon capture pipeline companies gaining access to land against a landowner’s will.
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