Tweeting for South Dakota

There is much anti-corruption work going on at state and local government levels. The effects of this work may percolate up to the Congressional level.

A full blown national story is happening in South Dakota, where, on November 8th, the South Dakota voters approved a South Dakota Anti-Corruption Act, and last week the South Dakota legislature overturned the will of the voters and repealed the Act. (For more information, see South Dakota.)

@RepresentDotUs is leading the charge for a South Dakota citizen effort to get the South Dakota legislature to reverse the action it took to repeal the South Dakota Anti-Corruption Act.

Contact @RepresentDotUs if you would like to help out.

There is a stark confrontation going on between South Dakota lawmakers and South Dakota citizens.

The confrontation threatens to expose much. Particularly it may expose the extent to which the reality of government in South Dakota is anti-democratic (or undemocratic), compared to what a democracy (or a representative democracy) is supposed to be.

Concern about this is not applicable only to South Dakota, and it is realistically a concern in other States and also regarding Congress.

State lawmakers and members of Congress need to answer up to their constituents on this concern.

The problem is many lawmakers will do everything they can to avoid facing up to their consitutuents on this, and massive demand by the voters acting in unison is needed to force their lawmakers to address the issue.

I tried to force facing up to this issue by running for Congress in the Alabama 6th Congressional district in 2014 but was ignored and got all of 500 votes. (If you want to investigate this dismal story, start with Just answer the question, Gary Palmer.)

The situation in South Dakota is a superlative opportunity for exhibiting what voters acting in unison can do to get their lawmakers to face up to their constituents.

As stated, @RepresentDotUs is leading the charge on this in South Dakota and is seeking to bring to bear public opinion from publicity outside South Dakota.

As discussed in the link given above (South Dakota), I am advocating that @RepresentDotUs use tweeting banks in carrying out its South Dakota efforts. (See How should tweeting banks be used.)

Tweeting banks require organization, formulation of appealing messaging, and some volunteers who are willing to initiate tweeting to get the pyramiding of tweets going that is the goal of the tweeting bank.

@RepresentDotUs has not yet been responsive to the idea. It has not given any explanation why it has not been responsive. Perhaps it is a lack of resources of @RepresentDotUs  to consider or experiment with the idea, or that @RepresentDotUs believes it could not get any volunteers to start the tweeting.

Readers of this blog entry are solicited to give their comments about tweeting banks being used in the South Dakota efforts and for other political messaging purposes.