PP at S.D. War College passes on Bob Mercer’s reporting that state Sen. Dan Sutton has left Pierre following the state Supreme Court’s decision that the Senate can proceed with its investigation of him.

Is this for good, for family, or to prepare for next week’s hearings?

Here’s an excerpt of PP’s take (So much for the dogs of war. Sutton leaves the Capitol, possibly never to return?):

So much for the dogs of war. Sutton leaves the Capitol, possibly never to return?

In newspapers across the state this AM, Bob Mercer is reporting that Senator Dan Sutton has left the building (the Capitol building, that is). Possibly never to return.

Senator Dan Sutton left the State Capitol with his wife, Mary Beth, and headed home to Flandreau Thursday evening.

He didn’t plan to return today. The mystery is whether he ever will.

“We’re just going to go back and look at all of our options,” Mary Beth Sutton said.

Asked whether resignation was a possibility, she replied, “He hasn’t ruled anything out right now.”

Read this breaking story it in the dead tree editions of the Pierre, Spearfish, Watertown, Mitchell or Aberdeen Newspaper. 

 
This is major, and alludes to what I’ve been predicting all along. Excepting the bluster and bravado of his attorneys, it seems the handwriting is on the wall, and just remains to be signed or not.

And now the bigger question: how many of you care one way or the other?

And one other reminder?  Who broke this story that had been in the shadows for months?  My pal PP.

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