Gack—Kaleb Weis is in! According to the Secretary of State’s official candidate list, the dour, Trumpist Aberdeen Republican filed yesterday to run for House in…
Month: March 2018
Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Kristi Noem claims she held a town hall yesterday: Um, Kristi? It’s not a “town hall” if the town in general…
I didn’t drive to Pierre through slush and slop (my red Beetle is currently brown!) just to hear the Executive Board defy its own ranked…
The Legislature may understand ranked choice voting, but that doesn’t mean they follow it. The Legislative Executive Board this afternoon passed over the top vote-getting…
Nobody overrides Dennis Daugaard’s vetoes. Not this year. The South Dakota Legislature convened this morning to consider three gubernatorial vetoes issued Friday. None of the…
Senator Billie Sutton tried to throw a minor monkey wrench into the proceedings of the Senate on Veto Day this morning. After the Senate failed…
Aberdeen’s sister march to Saturday’s nationwide student-led protest against gun violence and Congressional fecklessness gets a little attention in this morning’s paper. Organizer and Aberdeen…
Marty Jackley is trying to whack Kristi Noem from arguably opposite ideological perspectives. On Friday our Republican Attorney General razzed our lone Congresswoman (and his…
Sioux Falls mayoral candidate Paul TenHaken is sticking with DSU’s story that no faculty or students participated in the Rounds for Senate campaign’s 2013 scam…
Term-limited Rep. Jim Schaefer (R-26B/Kennebec) is stepping away from the Legislature (he’s leaving challenging incumbent Democratic Senator Troy Heinert to Republican Joel Koskan). Stepping into…