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My good buddy & bonafide SD Patriot Mick Baruth addresses some of the current division in the Grassroots

WHAT CAN THE ESTABLISHMENT DO TO KEEP THEIR POWER AND MONEY FROM SLIPPING AWAY? OP-ED by Mick Baruth

I have met many great people over the last few years who truly have their hearts in the right place as it comes to taking power away from our government and putting it back in the hands of the people. After all, our State Motto is “Under God the People Rule”. Like a frog in a pan of water on the stove, the Establishment/Globalists have realized that if they turn up the heat ever so slowly they can take away our liberties a little at a time and we will never jump out of the pan. This has happened because WE THE PEOPLE did not heed Thomas Jefferson’s words that “the key to freedom is eternal vigilance”.

If only the media had not been compromised, using our money against us to inflate advertising costs. The globalists use those advertising dollars as an insurance policy so the media covers for them. If not for this advertising money game, maybe we could get honest reporting and believe what the media is saying without taking it upon ourselves to get the word out through avenues such as this. Social media is a tool with many benefits and it is looking like it may actually end up being our saving grace.

Some people have been courageous in shedding light on the darkness that surrounds us. Seems to me the courageous have realized we are up against the PURE SELF SERVING EVIL of the Establishment/Globalists and the only way to defeat that evil is to shed light on it, knowing that the price they are paying will be persecution much like Jesus suffered. Jesus, who was the most persecuted person in history, suffered for speaking the truth. The courageous truly honor what Ephesians 5:11 states, "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."

For decades we have watched the democrats fall in line with what their leaders told them to do. The fake republicans, made up mostly of rinos or transrepublicans, cower out of fear, failing to fight for anything for fear of persecution by the media. President Trump, and those around him who are truly willing to put the best interest of the country in front of the self-serving interests of a few, have taught us that the only way to defeat the evil we are up against is to expose it. Unfortunately, we have to do it in ways that may not be viewed as politically correct. Those of you who watched the Apprentice know that much of what you saw was for show and for ratings. No more “LOSING WITH DIGNITY!!!”

I am one of those Wackadoodles who truly believes that our elections are the cog in righting the ship! The will of the people cannot be subverted. With that in mind, when Minnehaha, Lincoln, Pennington and Davison County decided to use our tax payer dollars to hire outside attorneys, other than the ones already on the payroll, to keep the cast vote records (which were designed to give us transparency in our elections) from

the public, I took it upon myself to reach out to the leadership of PRE (Patriot Ripple Effect) to propose running the following radio ad to get the word out to the public. I told leadership I would fund raise the money to pay for the ads, but wanted to run that money through PRE. Reason being so that more than one group could be viewed as actually working to expose the truth. Here is the word for word radio ad.

“For some reason your Minnehaha, Lincoln and Pennington county commissioners felt the need to use your tax dollars to hire outside attorneys to keep the Cast Vote Records, or more importantly, the facts from you the taxpayer! Please call or email your county commissioners and tell them you don’t appreciate them using your taxpayer dollars to keep the truth from you! Parents know when their kids are trying to hide information - that something is up. So what is up? Just release the Cast Vote Records so the public can see the facts and know that our elections are being conducted properly. Paid for by Patriot Ripple Effect PAC.”

After this ad ran one time, I got a call almost immediately from PRE leadership that the ad needed to be pulled for fear of a lawsuit. I was told that Dave Roetman was the one who made that recommendation/demand. What in that radio ad was suddenly causing the threat of a lawsuit? Nothing but TRUTH was spoken! Why hasn’t Dr Fauci sued Robert Kennedy, Jr for the book he wrote “The Real Anthony Fauci”? The truth is always a legitimate defense.

All along it was my understanding that Dave Roetman was okay with the ad because he saw the ad and worked with me to make sure KELO radio got paid for the ads before they ran. Why the sudden change of heart? As I have no proof of what actually caused this change of heart, I can only speculate that the establishment uni-party types did not like the ad exposing the truth to the public and threatened with a lawsuit. One has to ask why was Dave Roetman the one who all of a sudden told PRE to pull the radio ad?

After the ad was cancelled, I requested a refund of those funds in the form of a donation to SD Canvassing. Initially I was told an incorrect amount had been raised for these ads and I had to dig up an old text from Dave Roetman to prove how much money I had raised so those funds could be reimbursed properly. Why?

After 2020, and coming to the realization that our voices were being stolen at the ballot box in a variety of ways and in an effort to regain our power, we learned about the precinct committee person strategy. The first problem was most people did not know how the precinct strategy worked, so they started asking who it was they needed to talk to? One name consistently heard was Dave Roetman. A consistent theme early on that people noticed when talking to Dave Roetman about the precinct strategy was that he wasn’t really interested in sharing the details.

The precinct strategy is filling the Republican or Democrat precinct committee man and woman positions in each voting precinct in a county. These Precinct people get to vote at the statewide Convention for candidates such as Secretary of State and Attorney General that will appear on the ballot in the General Election for their respective parties. Once the establishment uniparty crowd saw us gaining traction in filling those spots with other wackadoodles, they started working to fill spots with people of their choosing. The establishment had been more than comfortable with as few people as possible actually being involved in our local and state politics, so they didn’t focus on filling those precinct positions until they realized the wrong kind of people were starting to get involved. I was even told by some that Dave Roetman called them to try and talk them out of running for a precinct committee person position. If you truly believe that our government is of, by and for the people why would you try to talk people out of participating in that government? That is, of course, unless you have another agenda?

Then Monae Johnson came along to run for Secretary of State. Monae had reportedly verbally contracted with Jordan Mason as her campaign manager, but Mason found out through the rumor mill that Johnson had decided to go with Dave Roetman for her campaign manager. He had reportedly offered to volunteer his services out of the goodness of his heart. As Johnson went around to meet with the precinct committee people, Roetman answered most of the questions while Johnson said “can’t we just talk about my kids?”.

Grassroots leaders, wise to Roetman, had told Johnson that she would get no support from the grassroots unless she cut all ties with Roetman. So, she agreed and cut ties with Roetman, and hired the Weible’s as her campaign managers. However, it is rumored she never really cut ties with Roetman and they worked together behind the scenes.

Dave Roetman has a long history with another fellow former Iowan, Dan Lederman, who is now a lead lobbyist for Summit Carbon Solutions. The same Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) who has tried using eminent domain to force landowners to share the use of their land for SCS to build a carbon capture pipeline across their land so they can collect billions of dollars of tax credits to take away the very carbon our crops need in order to achieve maximum production levels.

Dave Roetman also has a long history with another former Iowan, Pat Powers, of Dakota War College. To this day, Pat Powers continues to help the Establishment/ Globalists keep their power and money by writing against those who don’t follow the uniparty agenda.

Dave Roetman, former Chair of the Minnehaha GOP and State GOP finance director, was said to have put the organization in the red by thousands of dollars. After he was ousted, it is also said campaign material was found in the basement that had never been distributed. https://wnax.com/news/180081-sd-gop-adding-staff-ahead-of-2018/ As soon as people started to come out of the woodwork to hold elected officials accountable by asking questions and/or running for office, Dave Roetman was everywhere. Dave had the data, Dave had the answers, Dave was all of a sudden one of us? However, it has since been discovered that some of that data that Dave Roetman provided was less than accurate, and may have been intentionally distributing very old or corrupted data to the new, unsuspecting, grassroots candidates.

Last year, Dave Roetman was even chosen to be the leader of the North Dakota State Republican Party, but was removed shortly after social media posts were uncovered that were socially unacceptable. https://dakotawarcollege.com/ex-gop-finance-dir­ousted-minnehaha-gop-chair-and-ex-monae-johnson-campaigner-dave-roetman-now­executive-director-of-north-dakota-gop/

Dave Roetman is kind of an enigma. He is a single and involved “behind the scenes” in every patriot group in the state, yet no one really knows what he does or how he gets paid.

Why is it that Dave Roetman is always looked upon as the most knowledgeable person in the room when it comes to anything politics and yet he does not run for an elected position? Could it be that his services are needed elsewhere in order to keep the Establishment/Globalist informed as to the next move of the Wackadoodles? Is this how the Establishment/Globalist stay one step ahead of the Wackadoodles? Just something for you to ponder!