Denise Ross of the Rapid City Journal did an interview with Steve Hildebrand which is posted on Mt. Blogmore. As many suspected, we now know that Theron McChesney of "ThuneWatch" is an employee of Steve Hildebrand, who is paid by former Senator Tom Daschle. McChesney is a veteran Daschle campaign staffer. Hildebrand's consulting business, according to the interview, has 3 employees in Sioux Falls and 2 in Washington. Who are his other employees? Maybe "Clean Cut Kid"/Chad Schuldt? Will CCK say who is paying him? If you want an update on the former Daschle staffers who continue to run the permanent campaign against Senator Thune, see this article in the Rapid City Journal. Here's part of it:
Led by public statements from former Daschle campaign manager Steve Hildebrand and the pointed and sometimes profane Internet sniping from other former staffers, the Daschle team continues to wage political war against Thune. ...
It some cases, it can also be profane. Former Daschle staff member Jeremy Funk, who works with Hildebrand, uses a personal Web log, or blog, to promote "F... Thune" T-shirts. ...
HildebrandTewes Consulting — the "Tewes" is Paul Tewes, Hildebrand's partner — receives $2,000 a month from Daschle's campaign fund and another $4,000 a month from DASHPAC. Hildebrand, who manages both funds for Daschle, said the payments his firm receives were to maintain and manage the political action committee and to wrap things up from the campaign.
Funk and another former Daschle staff member, Chad Schuldt, run personal Internet blogs critical of Thune. And some of that criticism is shaped in language that many South Dakotans would consider offensive.
So who was/is paying Funk and Schuldt?
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