Count on Senate king Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) to point out that Governor Kristi Noem’s NRA-pandering executive order on banks and guns is a useless…
Tag: Hugh Bartels
HB 1133: Lems, Hansen Trying to Protect Landowners from Eminent Domain for CO2 Pipeline; Other Republicans Prefer Big Business over Property Rights
Published 2023-02-06
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Rookie Representative Karla Lems (R-16/Canton) withdrew her House Bill 1084 Friday. That good bill would have tightened up the use of eminent domain. But the…
Food Tax Notes: Bartels Pretends Voters Don’t Want Tax Cut, Dems Prepare Compromise, Alternative Revenue Awaits
Published 2023-01-23
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
A remarkable number of Republicans are not leaping onboard with Governor Kristi Noem’s embrace of the Democratic proposal to repeal South Dakota’s unusual and immoral…
HB 1003: Eliminate Prison/Jail Cost Estimates for Bills, Leaves Prison/Jail Population Statement Untouched for Initiatives
Published 2023-01-05
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
The Legislature’s Executive Board proposes House Bill 1003, a measure to immediately end the requirement that the Legislative Research Council prepare prison/jail cost estimates to…
House Republicans Reject Hansen Wackadoodles, Pick Schoenbeck Moderates for Leadership
Published 2022-11-20
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Senate boss Lee Schoenbeck may not have been able to protect lazy legislators from the burden of a pretty basic workplace appropriate-use IT policy, but…
HB 1083: Bartels Fiddles with Vo-Tech Names and—Surprise!—Triggers Constitutional Crisis!
Published 2020-01-25
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
In more Legislative fluffery, Representative Hugh Bartels offers House Bill 1083, 55 sections of find-and-replace to change the official name of our four public vo-tech…
By Sponsoring HB 1102, Watertown Legislators Would Ban Painting at High School They Represent
Published 2018-01-20
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Watertown’s feckless Republican Senator Neal Tapio is still too busy playing prairie Trump to come up with any bills of his own this Session. But…
Conference Committee Gets Chance to Restore Half-Penny Sales Tax Dedication to Teacher Pay
Published 2017-03-09
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Cory Allen Heidelberger
Peters, Sutton, Tidemann, Ahlers, Anderson, Bartels—these are the six legislators whose phones should ring more than anyone else’s today. The Senate tapped the brakes yesterday on…