Republican legislators and candidates had until last Wednesday, August 8, to submit their loyalty pledges to House and Senate GOP leadership. The pledge requires that…
Month: August 2018
The seven statewide Democratic candidates renominated at yesterday’s DemCon 2.0 made speeches after our micro-convention (conventional appendix? whizzi-nom?). Below are those beautiful outbursts of campaign…
In this weekend’s Avoidable Complications Department, I drove 200 miles yesterday to spend five minutes at the Icon Event Hall to renominate seven statewide Democratic…
Independent blogger John Tsitrian smartly ties the ACLU’s Smart Justice campaign against mass incarceration to Democratic Congressional candidate Tim Bjorkman’s profoundly useful position paper on the…
Last month Dakotans for Health pointed out the widespread harm that repealing the Affordable Care Act could do in North Dakota. Now Dakotans for Health,…
Know what else will cost more due to Trump’s unnecessary trade war? Quilts and fleece blankies. Baum Textile Mills of New Jersey tells its wholesale…
Break out the chicken suits—Kristi Noem is already ducking debates! Democrat Billie Sutton’s gubernatorial campaign sends out a press release bemoaning his Republican opponent’s refusal…
Tuesday was the deadline for South Dakota candidates to withdraw from the general election. According to the Secretary of State’s online candidate list, a total…
Hey, Democrats, don’t forget: we have another convention tomorrow! Dem Con 2.0 happens Friday, August 10, at 6 p.m. at the Icon Event Hall, 402…
Good thing I footnote-reminded him yesterday! Having called the Legislature into Special Session come September 12 to raise our taxes, Governor Dennis Daugaard remembered that he’d…