The deadline for submitting initiative petitions for the 2024 general election is May 7, but Dakotans for Health is pushing to submit its Roe v. Wade petition this November. Toward that ambitious end, Dakotans for Health is hosting a petition-singing rally this Saturday morning at the Icon Lounge in Sioux Falls:
In addition to collecting signatures for its abortion-rights petition, Dakotans for Health is also using Saturday’s rally to circulate its food-tax-repeal petition, the open primaries petition sponsored by Joe Kirby and friends, the initiated measures protection amendment petition sponsored by Brian Bengs’s team, and the latest marijuana legalization initiative from Matthew Schwiech’s team.
In addition to the opportunity to sign five initiative petitions, the rally is offering an hour-long program of advocacy and entertainment:
- 10:00 a.m.: Doors Open, Coffee, Rolls, Merch, Notaries, Petitions, Voter Registration
- 10:30 a.m.: Welcoming Remarks – Rick Weiland
- 10:40 a.m.: “Seasons of Love Gala” Song PReview – Alex Newcomb Weiland
- 10:45 a.m.: Comments and a Prayer – Rev. Jean Morrow
- 10:55 a.m.: Poetry Reading – Maddi Lukomski
- 11:00 a.m.: Special Speaker former Rep. Jan Nicolay
- 11:10 a.m. Special Speaker Sheryl Johnson
- 11:20 a.m. Closing Comments Adam Weiland
- 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.: Notaries, Petitions, Voter Registration
Note there will be notaries at the event, so hey, you volunteer circulators! If you have signed petitions, you can bring those sheets in to be notarized so you can submit them!
Heck yeah. Sounds good. There ought be a plate circulating as well. I love to donate, yet am not a fan of all the junk mail and tree waste after giving. Cash donations are where it’s at. Where cash donations are not possible, DFP is as close as it gets to no strings attached and the reciprocity is immense.
Does anyone know where a person in Rapid City can sign the grocery tax repeal petition? I went to dakotans4health.com and can’t find that information. They don’t answer their phone and they don’t respond to email.
Bench-I’m packing one in the RC area. Cory has my permission of my email passage to you.
Jake
Jake- would you mind if I ask Mr. H for your email to sign the grocery tax petition too? Alls I have is the Roe one from D4H…
Thanks, Jake! I’ll be in touch once I have your email.
That’s Dakota Free Press, helping democracy along on little ways every day.
Jake, do you want me to connect you with All Mammal?