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Frye-Mueller Proposes Enactment of Property Tax Cap Prior to Vote?

Last updated on 2024-01-15

Still speaking of ballot measures, did anyone else notice that Senator Julie Frye-Mueller’s improperly submitted property tax cap initiative also includes an improper enactment date?

Back in 2017, reeling from the voters’ approval of the Anti-Corruption Act that would have significantly checked corruption and Legislative perks if legislators hadn’t immediately repealed it, Republican legislators passed 2017 Senate Bill 59, which unnecessarily delayed the enactment of all future voter-approved ballot measures from eight days after the vote until, in the case of general election measures, seven and a half months later, on July 1. Republicans pushed that delay to give themselves more time to monkey-wrench future initiatives.

Julie Frye-Mueller served in the House in 2017. She voted for 2017 SB 59.

In the six years since, Frye-Mueller has apparently forgotten her saboteurial vote. At the bottom of her new initiative, she calls for the property tax cap she wants voters to approve on November 3, 2026, to take effect four months earlier, on July 1, 2026.

Now that’s probably just an oopsie. Frye-Mueller probably forgot to amend the enactment date that she included in her nowheresville 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 503 that she is now trying to port into a citizen initiative. But the Legislative Research Council also oopsied in not noticing this simple error. They certainly noticed the enactment date clause, advising Frye-Mueller that she ought to renumber it as “Section 2”, but they recopied the improper enactment date in their recommended text.

So hey, Julie! Let me help you and the LRC: Before you submit your actual legal first draft to the Legislative Research Council on May 3, the first date on which LRC may receive and consider initiative language for 2026, and definitely before you submit your final language to Attorney General Marty Jackley for his dilatory review, change that date… or better yet, just strike it, since statute (you know, SDCL 2-1-12, the law you voted to change to create one more roadblock to citizens’ exercise of their own lawmaking power) already prescribes the July 1, 2027, enactment date for all initiatives passed in November 2026.

14 Comments

  1. All Mammal

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  2. Mike Lee Zitterich

    I do not like the term “Election Deniers”, this portrays a specific group of people who think a Public Election never occurred, or did not happen. No one is advocating for any presumed Election was being denied. This is a false claim, or gross manipulation.

    The whole narrative being portrayed by the Specific Group of People is that the Government widely manipulated, and grossly abused the entire process of the Electoral Process, to get their choice of candidate elected to a specific office.

    This Group of People does NOT deny the fact that Joe Biden received the most popular votes, let alone most ballots seemingly came in for Joe Biden. They are questioning the facts, and the narrative that some sense of fraud, abuse, and manipulation has been allowed to occur within the process, that it has led to controversies and a wide array of “speculation” to occur on whether the “RIght of Choice” has been selected to become the President of the United States itself.

    This Specific Group of People have questioned the validity of the ballots, and the roles to which the Dominion Machines, and Other Voting Machines have played in the role of deciding the Election, and have called into question the ability of our “Elections” being kept secret, as promised by our Constitutional Rules and Provisions have established.

    This specific group of people are NOT election deniers, nor are they just a random based core of Americans looking for attention, or for fame, they are Americans to whom wish to audit, investigate, and look closely into the effects of our elections.

    This Specific Group of People are made up of both Democrats and Republicans to whom lack trust in our government, and wish to hold it accountable for its actions.

    So, I highly disagree with the term “Election Deniers” and wish people would be more honest with themselves, on why they are attacking a specific group of people attempting to hold their government accountable.

    Those of you who are attacking these people, seemingly have something to hide yourselves, and I question your motivated agenda to attack a group of people.

  3. Eliminating the electoral college can’t happen fast enough.

  4. In South Dakota local control is Republican control so JFM is simply another instrument of red state failure.

  5. Mike Lee Zitterich

    We will never eliminate the Electoral College, but we will only strengthen the Electoral COllege, by removing the Winner Take All Rule in every state. This will allow the Electors to vote for who they are instructed to vote for per each of the individual districts. Oops, this means the Democrats are doomed. We will amend the Constiuttion, led by Trump, to BAN the Winner Take All Rule.

  6. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency. A third favor keeping the current Electoral College system.

    Public opinion on this question is essentially unchanged from last year, though Americans’ support for using the popular vote to decide the presidency remains higher than it was a few years ago.

    https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/25/majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-moving-away-from-electoral-college/

  7. Mike Zitterich

    I never believe any C.F.R Media Poll. They lie. NO ONE wants to get rid of the Electoral College.

  8. I’m Jesus Incarcerated, vote for me!

  9. You’re freaking nuts, Zitterich.

  10. Mike Zitterich

    Coming from a Democrat, I take that as a compliment. Democrats show their true colors everyday when they respond to people they disagree with in a negative manner, by insulting our inteligence, our good looks, and our beliefs. I can assure, I have more respect in my own community, than Mr Larry or Dicta does, and that is no lie. Democrats wish to tear down the Electoral College cause they know they cannot grab enough support of the people, to control a vast majority of districts, for that, they choose to manipulate the process by convincing a small minority of our populatin in large liberal urban centers to out vote the vast majority of rural districts. This is exactly the reason we have the Electora College. to prevent both the popular opinion of the Congress and of the Voters from choosing the President. It forces the candidates to reach out to the entire country, one district by one district, where each is represented by an elector of who is elected by the voters of that particular district. The candidate to who gets the 50% Plus 1 of the Total # of districts wins, if NO ONE gets that exact number of districits, then it goes back to the State Legislatures who by the constitution, have to appoint 1 Delegate to represent the States interest, and Congress has to place the top three candidates recieving electors on a ballot, allowing the States to cast 1 vote each, while the the winner becomes president, and the runner up becomes vice president. It was a very brilliant plan created by the American People.

    Democrats do not like it, cause it prevents their mob-rule style of government.

  11. Looks like when Cory does his annual word count Zitt’s gonna win at biblical proportions.

  12. e platypus onion

    Zit the Crite” is not only an election denier, he is a drumpian proportioned liar, based on Pew Research Poll.

  13. O

    I was going to label him and election denier denier.

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