Since the Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act includes a provision banning Medicaid from paying for care at Planned Parenthood (because Republican health care reform…
Month: March 2017
We’ll get at least one good pipeline protest in before Senate Bill 176 takes effect and gives the Governor more power to quash public demonstrations:…
Bob Mercer faintly exaggerates the “long slide” of Democratic voter registration in South Dakota. We’re not surging, but according to the March 1 voter count from Secretary of…
Dana Ferguson reports that Jack Heyd of Box Elder plans to follow through with his plan to petition an anti-transgender potty bill onto the 2018 ballot. Ferguson reports…
One of the Legislature’s worse ideas this Session, House Bill 1072, allowing people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, passed the Senate yesterday 23–11. HB 1072…
House Appropriations chair Representative David Anderson grabbed Senate Bill 106 this morning and stuffed that last empty carcass bill with a tax increase. Now the Republicans who…
House State Affairs took Senate Bill 176 to the hoghouse this morning. Evidently getting the message that even his Republican majority wasn’t going to trust…
The SDGOP spin machine is really working hard to deflect the Club for Growth’s criticism of Rep. Kristi Noem for not firmly opposing the Trumpy Border Adjustment Tax.…
Suppose I posted, without any corroborating documents or testimony, the following accusation to Dakota Free Press: Dan Lederman and the South Dakota Republican Party have sabotaged my blog with…
Coming up in House State Affairs this hour is Senate Bill 176, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s attempt to grab the authority to declare martial law for six months in a…