A delegate to the South Dakota Democratic convention says that Todd Epp, press secretary to Governor candidate Jack Billion, was "browbeating and pressuring delegates" last weekend at the Democratic convention in Huron:
I would like to remind Mr Epp that after it approved the "Unity Resolution," the Democratic Convention also approved stronger language regarding the same issue. And this happened even after Mr Epp and other political operatives had spent the better part of two days browbeating and pressuring delegates to vote his way.
What Mr Epp mischaracterizes as "a few Democrats" was in fact the majority. Regarding a vote on the issue, Mr Epp challenged us to bring it on, if we had the votes. Guess what: We did, and we got a stronger resolution to accompany the "Unity Resolution"--although it would have been preferable to have debated the issue more openly and honestly, instead of being treated like a rubber-stamp Duma for the party elite. And while it wasn't as forceful a statement as many of us would have liked, it was much stronger than Mr Epp would have endorsed--so perhaps he ought to be less smug when taunting us lowly rank and file members of the party. From his lofty perch we may appear to be merely the Great Unwashed, but we're the dedicated workers his candidate needs in order to win. He might win a few more people to his cause if he avoided flipping us the rhetorical bird at every opportunity.
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