Part of the far-left’s culture of destruction is the creation of victims. They do this both externally and internally.
Externally they make victims out of women, the poor, and Native Americans and use them as political pawns in order to place blame on America. Then they propose their far-left secular socialist agenda as the solution to solving the problems.
Internally, the Democrats use the "negative ad" label to create viticms out of their candidates, such as Tom Daschle, in order to prevent themselves from being held accountable for their votes and political positions.
Yesterday, Kevin Woster brought forward more details regarding Steve Hildebrand’s accusation that Chad Schuldt was fired for taking over $100,000 from Hildebrand Tewes Consulting. One Sibby Online asked if I too heard the violins while reading the piece. Not holding was Hildebrand a victim, but Schuldt himself was portrayed as a victim of Video Lottery. Such talk not only provides damage control for the Democrats for the culture of corruption, but also prevents accountability to the wrong doers.
Note Woseter uses the "soft spoken" line here:
Speaking in a soft, broken voice from his home in Sioux Falls, as a child chattered happily in the background, Chad Schuldt sounded like anything but the astute, chronically self-righteous political operative and Internet blog commentator known for his tendency to bludgeon his foes with words.
Rather, he seemed every bit the human being he is, a man who has lived a lie in at least a substantial portion of his recent life and now faces family trauma, public humiliation and possibly a trip to prison.
This leaves me with a question:
It appears that Chad Schuldt's road to ruin stopped at a thousand video-lottery machines, on a lonesome ride down from casino to casino to despair. As business manager for a Democratic political consulting firm, Hildebrand and Tewes, Schuldt had access to money that wasn't his and ways to feed his addiction and hide his reckless ride toward the bottom.
That's just what he did, according to Steve Hildebrand, who outlined his friend's financial free-fall during an interview with the Journal on Saturday.
Schuldt first admitted to a problem with payroll taxes about three weeks ago, Hildebrand said. But the initial story didn't wash.
The three weeks doesn’t wash. Schuldt stopped posting on June 18. That is more than six weeks. Why is Hildebrand saying three weeks?
But we do learn more about the investigation:
As Hildebrand and others backtracked two years through Schuldt's financial records, a shocking and disheartening trail emerged. A look at company credit card use showed that Schuldt had made more than 150 cash withdrawals at $200 each, all tied directly to casinos.
And that $30,000 or so was just part of the financial shell game Schuldt played to cover his addiction, Hildebrand said. The total amount missing is believed to top $100,000.
"We've had an accountant, CPA and two lawyers helping us navigate through all this," Hildebrand said. "It's all so difficult. And to have it involve a friend like this, makes it all the more difficult."
Next comes the I am a victim and so is Schuldt BS:
"Unfortunately, in our state gambling is very accessible because of video lottery," Hildebrand said. "And he was drawn into it and couldn't get out of it and was in casinos all over town, spending my money."
Hildebrand said he feels betrayed by Schuldt but also by a system that sanctions a type of voluntary tax that so easily destroys the most vulnerable of its citizens. And he admits empathy for his friend's personal struggle.
Here is the response from SDWC:
As someone who’s family was directly impacted by the exact same thing, I have a different viewpoint on the matter. Yes, my family’s thief was a trusted friend who spent it on video lottery as well. While we were mourning our mom’s passing, she was putting thousands into the machines while we were distracted.
And I’ll be the first to tell you that the theft certainly put a damper on my interest in it as an entertaining diversion.
But I don’t blame video lottery for the loss. It was the person who committed the crime, and not the institution. It’s like blaming gun manufacturers for crime, or liquor stores for alcoholism. Ultimately, I think you have to be responsible for your own actions.
Being held accountable doesn’t fit the far-left’s mindset of government dependency and moral depravity. And the Drive-by media does not want to demonstrate how the Sopranos of South Dakota are not only creating a culture of destruction, but also a culture of destruction. That is why Hildebrand Tewes Consulting worked to defeat Referred Law 6 in order to maintain the destruction of the pre-born instead of running a campaign to pass Initiated Measure 7 and ban Video Lottery during the 2006 election cycle.
