You know, for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth accompanying the Legislature’s passage and the Governor’s signing today of House Bill 1080, the ban…
Month: February 2023
Perhaps true Republicans should be glad that Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) struggles to get any of his bills passed. The Senate has had to kill…
In further failures this month, Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) failed again to rewrite municipal campground law to benefit his own business. As I reported last…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) proposed a bill that would help an Aberdeen business other than his own. Alas, he couldn’t get that bill through committee,…
How do you make amends with the party establishment after ousting one of their favorite sons from his Pierre sinecure? By hiring another favorite son…
The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…
Senator Erin Tobin (R-21/Winner) is unhappy that the anti-abortion absolutists of her Republican Party, the people on whom she relies for her political career, killed…
Speaking of free lunches, Democrats in South Dakota would like to make sure that all that milk and pork our crony-socialist ag-industrial complex produces gets…
The Board of Economic Development gave out more Big Ag socialism Wednesday. The Governor’s Office of Economic Development reports that the board approved a $4,400,000…
Representative Phil Jensen (R-33.Hisega) played weak political theater Wednesday afternoon, bringing a lengthy House State Affairs committee hearing to a dreary ending with a limp…