Noem can't shake off the nepotism monkey on her back. She dumps all over the messenger but can't

[TexasTowelie]

Noem can’t shake off the nepotism monkey on her back. She dumps all over the messenger but can't escape facts.


Gov. Kristi Noem and her chief spokesman Ian Fury combined their Twitter resources during the past few days in an effort to discredit AP reporter Stephen Groves. Groves has been covering the events that took place soon after Noem’s daughter Kassidy Peters failed her state-required required real estate appraiser’s exam in July, 2020.

The most immediate eyebrow-raising moment was a meeting that Noem conducted with officials from the state department that oversees real estate appraisal licensing.

At the meeting was daughter Kassidy. Here’s what followed, according to AP: “Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran the agency, the woman’s direct supervisor and the state labor secretary. Noem’s daughter attended too. Kassidy Peters, then 26, ultimately obtained the certification in November 2020, four months after the meeting at her mother’s office. A week after that, the labor secretary called the agency head, Sherry Bren, to demand her retirement, according to an age discrimination complaint Bren filed against the department. Bren, 70, ultimately left her job this past March after the state paid her $200,000 to withdraw the complaint.”

You can imagine the flurry of questions that all of this set off, particularly the most compelling one: why on earth did the state of South Dakota pay Sherry Bren $200,000 to withdraw her complaint? Bren last September told South Dakota Public Broadcasting that “I was forced to retire … I turned 70 at the time that this happened. I believe that I was perceived as not being able to — being too old to do my job, or something—I don’t know what. I really don’t know. I wasn’t ready to leave. I wanted to leave in a couple of years, but that wasn’t my choice.”

Read more: https://www.sdstandardnow.com/home/noem-cant-shake-off-the-nepotism-monkey-on-her-back-she-and-her-flack-ian-fury-dump-all-over-the-messenger-but-still-wont-respond-to-the-message

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. Everyone wants to be King, or Queen, tho South Dakota is more of a fiefdom.

Hence the dictatorship muscle flexing. She wants more than 40 acres of dust, wouldn’t you?