Farmer Boss on Noem’s Puppy-Killing Excuse: That’s Cow Dung!

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem reacted to outrage over her revelation that she shot her family’s “hated” 14-month-old dog dead by insisting that executing animals is just an unfortunate reality of farm life.

But the leader of the farmers union in her own state says that’s a steaming pile of cow pies.

“This is not a common thing at all,” South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke, a self-described “working class Democrat,” told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “I don’t know where she comes off thinking that’s the right thing to do. It’s just not.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.