(An evening with a puppy killer, anyone? — Promoted by Colorado Pols)
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will be the featured speaker at this Saturday’s fundraising dinner for the Jefferson County Republican Party. Noem, who is on Donald Trump’s vice presidential shortlist, was already widely known as a conservative firebrand, but she returned to the headlines today after the Guardian published excerpts from her new book, “No Going Back,” which includes her graphic recounting of killing a 14-month old puppy for being a bad hunting dog.
After shooting her puppy with her shotgun, she writes that she “realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” and shoots one of her family’s goats, because he smelled bad and liked to head-butt her children.
In response to widespread backlash, Noem released a statement defending her decision to kill her pets, even as reports circulate that the story may have ended her vice presidential hopes.
Asked by the Colorado Times Recorder if this news caused any concerns for next Saturday’s fundraiser, Jeffco GOP Chair Nancy Pallozzi said she wasn’t aware of the story and declined to comment until she was familiar with it. This article will be updated with any response received.
As the Guardian reports:
By taking Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs, Noem says, she hoped to calm the young dog down and begin to teach her how to behave. Unfortunately, Cricket ruined the hunt, going “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life”. Noem describes calling Cricket, then using an electronic collar to attempt to bring her under control. Nothing worked. Then, on the way home after the hunt, as Noem stopped to talk to a local family, Cricket escaped Noem’s truck and attacked the family’s chickens, “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another”. Cricket the untrainable dog, Noem writes, behaved like “a trained assassin.” When Noem finally grabbed Cricket, she says, the dog “whipped around to bite me”. Then, as the chickens’ owner wept, Noem repeatedly apologised, wrote the shocked family a check “for the price they asked, and helped them dispose of the carcasses littering the scene of the crime”. Through it all, Noem says, Cricket was “the picture of pure joy”. “I hated that dog,” Noem writes, adding that Cricket had proved herself “untrainable”, “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with” and “less than worthless … as a hunting dog”. “At that moment,” Noem says, “I realised I had to put her down.” Noem, who also represented her state in Congress for eight years, got her gun, then led Cricket to a gravel pit.
Noem spoke in Colorado last year at the Steamboat Institute’s Freedom Conference in Beaver Creek.
The Jefferson County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner is being held at the Denver Marriott West in Golden this Saturday evening. Tickets, which start at $150 and range as high as $12,000 for VIP table sponsors, are still available.
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What's on the menu for the evening?
Oh, hot dogs with goat cheese…
At this point I can only surmise that when Noem talks about shooting a dog and goat and throwing them in a gravel pit (because she had to even if it was difficult), she’s really talking about shooting browns, gays, trans people, immigrants or anyone else on laundry list of people the GOP cannot wait to murder.
Fascist Cosplaying: Vicarious Violence.
Noem is gunning to be Trump's VP candidate.
Well, it’s not as if it will spoil her chances with The Screaming Yam. He hates dogs. He’s a germophobe and thinks pets are unsanitary. I didn’t realize how few presidents had no pets in the White House;
From Wikipedia: “Most United States presidents have kept pets while in office, or pets have been part of their families.[1] Only James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, and Donald Trump did not have any presidential pets while in office.[2] However, Johnson did take care of some mice he found in his bedroom.[3]“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_pets
Is there still time to get Rittenhouse as a warm-up
shooter, I mean speaker?I wonder if PETA and friends will show up outside the event.
If I weren't laid up, I might be interested in taking my Great Dane for a walk.
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The dumbest thing about all of this is that Noem thought this would make her look tough and courageous somehow. What an idiot.
No doubts that she will double down on this conduct and use it to prove she is ready to be Trumps VP lackey.
That puppy has been dead for nearly 20 years and it just bit her in the ass again.
I read one line suggesting puppy Cricket could be Kristi's Viet Noem.
Let them have their party. They should let her come (not by shooting animals) and speak and see how it gets received by the general public.
This comes on the heels of the wolf torture scandel in Wyoming. People are getting fed up with animal mistreatment and abuse. She's also been banned from stepping foot on the rez by the Sioux.
The Wyoming incident was despicable.
I can tell you the communities on the western slope are in turmoil over the wolf re-introduction issue. I think politics has so invaded the discussion it has gotten ugly.
I am pretty sure the government pays ranchers and livestock owners for losses due to predation, and I believe it is a generous sum. I don't know, however, if the program is managed fairly.
1,689,000 Livestock in Wyoming. 97 (0.006%) Livestock killed by wolves last year. . And ranchers are compensated by WY Fish and Game for loss. 85% of Wyoming is predator zone where wolves can be killed at any time in any quantities no license required.
The wolf torture incident has now prompted a lawsuit against the feds to force the re-listing of of the northern gray wolf, so hopefully some good will come out of this.
The state has a generous compensation program for livestock lost to wolves.
Last week someone on this blog mentioned that at times, once a dog gets a taste for blood, they become generally hostile and will do anything to get “more”. That is in fact true (not unlike billionaires who get a taste of money and will do anything to get more) and they have to be dealt with. I grew up on a ranch in Yuma County and while coyotes were generally our only problem I do remember a time when a pack of stray dogs were roaming the region and were eventually hunted down with a helicopter and killed.
As far as Noem, she clearly had an audience of one in mind when she decided to include her killing of Cricket in the book.
It's coming out today that Noem claimed in her book to have met Kim Jong Un, and everybody is calling bullshit. She really isn't doing herself any favors.