Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) wanted to tell the puppy murder story in a previous book — and her publishing team had to stop her, according to a new report. According to Politico, her first book’s draft also discussed the story. “Then, as now, Noem wanted the story in because it showed a decisive person who was unwilling to be bound by namby-pamby niceties, while others on the team — which included agents, editors and publicists at Hachette Book Group’s prestige Twelve imprint, and a ghostwriter — saw it as a bad-taste anecdote that would hurt her brand. The tale was ultimately cut, according to two…