Daschle’s Hildebrand lead permanent campaign’s bloggers are in a tailspin. Last week the two anonymous bloggers, Theron NcChesney and Nathan Peterson outed themselves. A couple of days later, Peterson pulled a blog watch chicken and deleted his site. [see update below for correction] Fortunately a Sibby Online reader sent me his about page:
"My name is Nathan Peterson. I was born and raised in Beresford, South Dakota. After graduating from Beresford High School in 1999, I completed basic and technical military training to fulfill my enlistment with the Air National Guard, in which I still serve."
"Upon returning from military training, I attended Augustana College for one year before transferring to the University of South Dakota. In May of 2005, I graduated from USD with a B.A. in Political Science. During my time at USD, I worked at a law firm, a grocery store, an administrative office and on the reelection campaigns for Senator Tim Johnson in 2002 and Senator Tom Daschle in 2004."
"As for this blog, it is my hobby. I pay for all costs associated with this blog and no one pays me nor in any other way attempts to influence the content of my posts - the opinions contained herein are my own. None these posts represent the views of my employers, past or present, in the military or civilian world."
The Sibby Online reader noted that the Air National guard frowns on its members involvement in partisan politics and could be the reason for Peterson’s decision. I have also emailed him twice to verify if he was the same Nathan who answers the phone for Hildebrand. I got no response. Things must have gotten too hot for Nathan.
Looks like Theron McChesney is off to Ohio with Chad Schudlt to get a Democrat elected to office. Schuldt’s hatred for John Thune resulted in his lies about the Energy Bill that I documented in earlier posts. SDP really nailed Schuldt by using what has always been unkind to Tom Daschle and his supporters…the Congressional Record. Excerpt:
On April 29, 2004, the Senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on the energy bill again, this time without the MTBE provision or the ANWR provision. And once again, the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the energy bill, despite the fact that it DID NOT INCLUDE either the MTBE provision or the ANWR provision. I strongly encourage readers to click on the following link to the roll call vote to see for themselves that this was most definitely NOT "just an ethanol amendment": Roll Call Vote #74. The statement of purpose for the amendment is "To enhance energy conservation and research and development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people." Obviously, that's not just an ethanol amendment, as embittered former Daschle staffer Schuldt falsely states in yet another post on the matter. Here's what he says:
The "bill" Thune’s supporters are pointing to was an ethanol amendment, and not the energy bill at all.
That's an utterly false, inaccurate statement, borne out of ignorance or a willful disregard of the facts. Follow the links from Roll Call Vote #74. Look in the pages of the April 28, 2004 Congressional Record at the text of the amendment (pp. S4506 to 4605). This indeed was a vote on the energy bill. Significantly, nowhere will you find a provision on MTBE liability protection or ANWR drilling in this bill. The fact is, an energy bill without MTBE or ANWR was defeated on April 29, 2004, which completely contradicts the assertion that Daschle could have gotten the necessary votes to pass the energy bill had those provisions not been in the bill.
Where does that leave us? Since Daschle's ouster, an energy bill has now passed and will soon become the law of the land. Before Daschle's ouster, an energy bill could not get passed, even one that did not contain the controversial MTBE and ANWR provisions. Despite the tendentious claims and outright falsehoods by the embittered former Daschle staffers, the energy bill, with its ethanol provisions so important for South Dakota, could not have become law without the critical support, hard work, and effectiveness of Senator John Thune.
Jeremy Funk, the other Hildebrand blogger has been AWOL for nearly a week.
UPDATE: Looks like Nathan's web site URL is now this. (Todd Epp...update your links!)
It also looks like Nathan is in Ohio with the two other Hildebrand bloggers I mentioned...Chad and Theron.
So Peterson...are you the Nathan that sometimes answers Hildebrand's phone?
Another UPDATE: Jeremy Funk, the fourth Hildebrand blogger, has also been ordered to Ohio.
