Hey, Democrats! Your party wants to hear you! When we all get over our Thanksgiving stuffing and shopping hangovers (remember, it’s not the tryptophan!), the South…
Month: November 2016
I raised $5,701.02 from 76 donors for my District 3 Senate campaign by using ActBlue to collect contributions online. That’s over a quarter of my campaign…
My Aberdeen neighbor Bill Fuhrman represented the worst of Trumpism in his comments in our local paper last week. But in this week’s AAN Reader Panel on…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian appears to agree with me that we South Dakota Democrats should spend less time arguing about who should lead our party…
Fiscal quiz! Can you find the error in the following paragraph from Sara Bertsch’s profile of new Governor’s Office of Economic Development chief Scott Stern? The…
History seems to mitigate against synergy between ballot measures and partisan candidates’ fortunes. Even when we led the nation in putting initiative and referendum into our state…
Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act, includes one potentially unconstitutional section. Scroll to the bottom and read Section 68: There is hereby appropriated from the…
I hear a lot more griping about Initiated Measure 22, the voter-approved Anti-Corruption Act that took effect last week, from Republicans than from Democrats. Hmmm… I’m thinking if…
If Democrats need a distraction from the real work of retaking their state legislatures, they can spend Thanksgiving debating who should be House Minority Leader,…
Senator-Elect Al Novstrup and I agree that video lottery is a terrible way to fund state operations. Novstrup said (at about 53:00 in our November 4 KSDN radio debate)…