“She does not want anyone who won’t bend to her will,” said Gosch, who recently lost a primary legislative race when the governor supported his opponent, Sen.
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The governor received sharp criticism from some Republicans for goading an impeachment investigation committee forward, as well as in 2021 releasing videos of Ravnsborg’s interviews with criminal investigators while a trial was pending. When an organization created to promote the governor’s agenda sponsored billboards attacking lawmakers for not supporting Ravnsborg’s impeachment, his office probed whether the organization broke campaign finance laws. “The friction between the governor and Ravnsborg possibly led Ravnsborg to be more diligent of a watchdog of the governor’s office,” said Jon Schaff, a political science professor at Northern State University who closely watches Statehouse politics.Įven impeachment proceedings gave Ravnsborg reason to investigate Noem’s circle. The board is set to meet Monday as it weighs whether to investigate both Noem’s use of state airplanes to attend political events and her interference in a state agency that had denied her daughter a real estate appraiser license. Ravnsborg made a pair of complaints to the state’s Government Accountability Board, which evaluates ethics complaints against state government officials. In an April letter sent to House lawmakers on the eve of the impeachment vote, Ravnsborg said he would not resign in part because his office “has multiple ongoing investigations into the Governor’s alleged activities and people associated with her.” Noem and Jackley ran a biting primary campaign for governor in 2018, and their mutual endorsement came as a surprising development as the House evaluated the merits of impeachment earlier this year. She has endorsed Ravnsborg’s predecessor, Marty Jackley, for the Republican nomination for attorney general, but it’s not clear whether he will be her choice to fill the job temporarily until the candidate elected in November is sworn-in. “It is now time to move on and begin to restore confidence in the office,” Noem said. Noem celebrated the impeachment conviction Tuesday on Twitter, saying “a dark cloud” over the attorney general’s office had been lifted. Though her aggressive approach riled some lawmakers, Ravnsborg’s ouster allows Noem to name his replacement, discredit a one-time adversary who had investigated her and claim political independence because she held a fellow Republican accountable. Noem pressed impeachment through the Republican-controlled Legislature, providing crucial support on an effort that at times faced razor-thin vote margins. He refused but was removed Tuesday through impeachment proceedings, with the Senate voting to convict the first-term Republican and then - unanimously - prohibiting him from holding public office again. Noem, who has sprung to national prominence within the party and is widely considered a potential 2024 White House contender, began pushing Ravnsborg to step down within days after he struck and killed a pedestrian with his car in September 2020. Kristi Noem, whose hard-driving effort to oust her fellow Republican likely sealed his fate even as some GOP lawmakers backed him. (AP) - The South Dakota Senate’s decision this week to remove Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg from office was an emphatic victory for Gov.
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