Three weeks ago I noted with dismay that the Secretary of State’s list of 2022 candidates showed only one independent running for any office in…
Tag: Susan Wismer
In fealty to his sponsors’ agenda, the SDGOP spin blog regularly lambastes supporters of marijuana legalization, calling them “out-of-touch liberal hippies who have no relation…
When Senator Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) testifies to Senate State Affairs on behalf of Senate Bill 141, her proposal to make the Bobolink South Dakota’s official…
Speaking of the budget and the Legislature’s legal obligation to increase teacher pay 2% in Fiscal Year 2021, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) tells the Aberdeen…
South Dakota Citizens for Liberty has posted its 2019 Conservative Scorecard for the South Dakota Legislature. Scores this year are based on 22 bills and…
The Board of Regents spent the day hearing from Republican legislators’ out-of-state conservative allies who jetted here to whine they don’t receive the same civil…
In his opening comments at Saturday’s crackerbarrel, Senator Al Novstrup said something about the alternative to having “dumb bills” in the Legislature is resorting to…
Four of the five legislators at Aberdeen’s final 2019 crackerbarrel yesterday expressed unequivocal support for the bills legalizing industrial hemp in South Dakota—House Bill 1191 on…
Amidst a lull in audience questions at today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel, I took the mic after a question about abolishing the federal Department of Education (no,…
Senator Al Novstrup needs to learn when not to play his word games. Teaching him that lesson last night was Representative Susan Wismer. At the…