Custer County Chronicle

I received an invite a few weeks ago to fly to El Paso, Texas, to attend a seminar on the border wall being built where the Texas, New Mexico and Mexico borders meet. Attendees included sitting state legislators, both state and federal Senate and House candidates, a Secretary of State and a U.S. Attorney nominee. I was the only attendee from South Dakota who  ended up going and am glad I was able to attend.

As of Monday this week there have been over 70 continuous nights of rioting in Portland, Ore. You would think, eventually, the residents would be up in arms demanding law enforcement put a stop to these destructive riots which are anything but peaceful.

If the national media was at all interested in highlighting these riots and helping to stop them, we would see video and photos of the nightly unrest. But we don’t, and they continue to happen. They are not peaceful.

I have decided to write about a Constitutional Convention, also called a Convention of States, Article V Convention or Con-Con. For simplicity, I’ll refer to it as COS.

For those who attended Gold Discover Days in Custer recently, the COS folks were there in force getting signatures on a petition for a COS. They then took your signature and transformed it onto a form letter and have swamped my emails. Pretty funny huh? Well, to the good people pushing a COS, this tactic doesn’t work on me.  Having said that, let’s discuss.