.MaddowBlog: If Gov. Kristi Noem was hoping to see her abuse-of-power controversy quietly go away, the latest developments will be disappointing.
South Dakota's attorney general said Wednesday he has asked the state's Government Accountability Board to review questions about whether Gov. Kristi Noem improperly interfered in a state agency's evaluation of her daughter's application for a real estate appraiser license. The board, which was created in 2017 to review allegations of misconduct from state officials, is a panel of four retired judges appointed by the governor; the current panel includes one Noem appointee.
Jason Ravnsborg, the state's Republican attorney general, said in a statement that he made the referral"in response to questions and concerns from a number of legislators and citizens who reached out to me."a couple of weeks ago that the governor's adult daughter applied to become a certified real estate appraiser.
Soon after, Noem's daughter ended up getting the certification she sought, at which point the state labor secretary allegedly demanded the retirement of the relevant agency head. As we've discussed, you don't have to be an expert in government ethics to see this story as a legitimate abuse-of-power controversy. Making matters worse, at least at first, the governor didn't even try to deny the core elements of the story, choosing instead to accuse the media of"trying to destroy" her children, which was
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