One-time VP aspirant and Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem included the story about how she shot the family dog in a roadside ditch in the draft of her first campaign “fluff” biography in 2022, but removed it after her editors, agents and publicists urged her to, Politico reports.
Remember: biographies like the one Noem put her name on–it was actually written by a ghostwriter–are supposed to help attract voters to the subject. Just two years ago, when Noem was not running for any office, she put out a bio where she wanted to feature the assassination of the family pet as a metaphor for how Noem handles problems, like her political career.