The saga of Republican attorney general Jason Ravnsborg of South Dakota first broke last September when he ran a man down in the road, claiming it was a deer and too dark to see. This week evidence has surfaced that Ravnsborg wasn’t telling the truth, most prominently the revelation that eye glasses belonging to the victim, Joe Boever, were found in Ravnsborg’s truck, which means “his face came through the windshield” to quote police.
Here’s a clip where the police are telling Ravnsborg he was reading John Solomon’s website.
South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg was reading Joe Biden conspiracy theories at John Solomon's Just The News website while driving when he slammed into a man, killing him and hitting him so hard the man's face came through the windshield. (Ravnsborg claimed he thought he hit a deer) pic.twitter.com/Lz9dWb7SBa
— Timothy Johnson (@timothywjohnson) February 26, 2021
Ravnsborg has said he was driving home from a GOP fundraiser at 10:30 p.m. on September 12 when his car hit a large figure in the dark, which Ravnsborg said he presumed was a deer. There was no deer the next day, but the body of Joe Boever was in a ditch. After months of investigation, Governor Kristi Noem has requested that Ravnsborg resign. Washington Post:
The videos released on Tuesday shed more light on the criminal case against Ravnsborg.
At one point during the Sept. 30 interview, a detective presses Ravnsborg on why Boever’s glasses were found inside his car.
“His face was in your windshield, Jason. Think about that,” said a detective with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation. The attorney general denied seeing the pair of glasses inside his vehicle or on the man’s body.
Ravnsborg told the detectives he didn’t see “anything” before he struck Boever that night. But detectives noted that Boever would have been hard to miss because he carried a flashlight that would have been like “a beacon of light” in the dark night.
Ravnsborg decided that night to deny what happened, evidently, and he’s sticking to that.
“I did not know until the next day. I did not. No. I’m a military guy. You do not leave people on the battlefield. You do not leave people behind,” added Ravnsborg, who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves.
The South Dakota House is expected to formally introduce the impeachment articles on Wednesday. A simple majority vote would be needed to advance to the state Senate, where two-thirds of the senators would need to convict him to remove him from his position.
Nemec, Boever’s cousin, said he is disappointed the lawmaker is not facing more serious charges.
“Deep inside, I was hoping he would be charged with involuntary manslaughter, but that didn’t happen,” Nemec said. “He’s grossly undercharged.”
A spokesman in Ravnsborg’s office has stated that the investigation does not impede the attorney general’s ability to do his job, but that’s hardly the point. Who wants a chief lawmaker whose character and whose word is so egregiously questionable? Ravnsborg can’t see that, apparently, so this story is far from over.
A corrupt dishonest republican?
Who could have foreseen that?
Well, as Snake said it best (I presume he was quoting someone else) and from another PolitiZoom article- The more things change, the more they stay the same. I would rather believe in the words from a Bruce Hornsby song- Some things will never change, and don’t you believe it. There must be some brave real patriots out there who believe in the prevention of the corruption of the ideals which protect us all.