Tom Cool and Alexandra Frederick didn’t win enough votes to become State Auditor and Secretary of State in the 2018 election. But they won sufficient…
Month: January 2019
At least four bills in the hopper will interest candidates, campaigners, and their treasurers: Senate Minority Leader Troy Heinert (D-26/Mission) offers Senate Bill 139 in hopes…
Rookie Representative Kaleb Weis has another dumb idea. The Aberdeen Republican proposes House Bill 1113 and House Concurrent Resolution 1002, both of which call on local…
Here’s the last video dump from Saturday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel: Asked by local economic development honcho Mike Bockorny if South Dakota would catch up with its…
Kayla Weis asked a question at Saturday’s crackerbarrel here in Aberdeen. Funny: you’d think that being married to a legislator would give her more than…
Why did Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) praise rookie Representative Kaleb Weis (R-2?Aberdeen) but ridicule his District 3 counterpart rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) at Saturday’s…
Oh, that wacky goofus Speaker Steve Haugaard! The Sioux Falls Republican thought he’d use his new power to punish Municipal League lobbyist Yvonne Taylor for…
Sister Pat Prunty from the Presentatation convent came to crackerbarrel, as the Sisters regularly do, to ask legislators about relieving the poor of the regressive…
NSU student Steven Meyer came to crackerbarrel Saturday to learn what the substantive difference is between Senator Lance Russell’s Senate Bill 38 and Senator Brock…
Aberdeen Central School Board member Duane Alm came to Saturday’s crackerbarrel to ask legislators why the Governor Kristi Noem wants to drop the testing requirements…