Mere days after the South Dakota Board of Elections said that state law forbids rule-making bodies from considering petitions proposed by members of the public, the Game Fish and Parks Commission adopted rules that originated with a petition proposed by a member of the public.
Last month, the GF&P Commission considered two petitions for rule changes submitted by pheasantrepreneur Sal Roseland of Seneca concerning the tagging of bagged birds and transportation of bagged birds on private shooting preserves. The commission initially approved Roseland’s petitioned rule changes at its June meeting in Madison and put final approval on its July agenda. Meeting in Webster Thursday and Friday this week, the commission fully adopted Roseland’s requested changes:
The Commission adopted additional allowances for the transportation of harvested birds from a private shooting preserve directly to a lodge or cleaning facility not located on permitted acres prior to tagging. This finalization is the result of a public petition [“South Dakota GFP Commission Holds July Meeting,” KFGO Radio, 2026.07.11].
On Wednesday, the Board of Elections rejected two petitions from the League of Women Voters seeking changes to rules relating to voter registration. To support this rejection, lawyers on the board pointed to one statute that defines “person” as “all political subdivisions and agencies of the state” and said that since the League of Women Voters is not a political subdivision or agency of the state, the League is not an “interested person” that can petition for rule changes.
Sal Roseland is not a political subdivision or agency of the state. He certainly knows people in state government—he’s the guy who loaned Governor Larry Rhoden his skidloader to help with storm cleanup in Highmore last month—but he is a private citizen. The Game Fish and Parks Commission obviously sees no problem in considering and approving a rule change petitioned by a private citizen. As a matter of fact, the commission had another citizen petition on this week’s agenda, Petition 260 from Jason Clayton, a former South Dakotan now abiding in Faxon, Oklahoma, who’d like non-residents to be able to hunt mountain lions in the Black Hills.
The Game Fish and Parks Commission has effectively rejected the Board of Elections’ ridiculously narrow reading of state law and instead endorsed the broad, participatory spirit and intent of the state laws concerning public petitions to South Dakota’s rule-making agencies. Private citizens and organizations who want to propose changes to the administrative rules on elections should contact the Board of Elections and say, “Hey, the GF&P Commission is taking public petitions, so what’s your problem?”
Well Mr. Roseland did help clean up Highmore. As a former High moron I salute him.
The small folk can petition away. Only the boards and bureaucratic agencies can bring rules to rule them all. Even you, Mr. H, could take a knee and plead to the ruling boards and beg them to hear your plee from Nebraska, but the real powers lie behind the curtain where the lobbists choreograph the outcomes the way the management fellows want.
Environmental groups petitioned for rules several times. It’s been part of the administrative rulemaking forever in South Dakota.
In South Dakota over a hundred native species are at risk to the Republican Party including the endangered pallid sturgeon, paddlefish, black footed ferret, northern long-eared bat, the black-backed woodpecker that feeds on bark beetles and a bird that actually walks underwater – the American dipper, just to name a few.
So, how would the presence of moose, wolves and bears in South Dakota not automatically make them candidates for endangered species protection? Because Republicans hate the Earth.
Rumours say Noem Nothing is getting a divorce. She must admire Lewdandlusty’s appendage.
If there are several definitions
Of words and an organization chooses their interpretation then any one who disagrees
With that selected interpretation can sue
And the Supreme Court will determine the definition that ALL will use and is defined.
Noem wasn’t much for SD interstate highway flood clean-up, Mike perhaps reminds us from over the border but, she was (still is?) an incompetent SD “political figure whose bravado, cruelty, incompetence and commando cosplay inspired more wickedly funny material than Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin and Sean Spicer combined.” Much like Great Wall ecstasy, fearless bison romps, wildfire & flame thrower poses, sculpting granite presidents, tribal embarrassments repeated SD-wide, she posed “in front of a packed holding cell at El Salvador’s maximum security prison CECOT… casting herself as an agent of action in multiple ICE raid videos. Donning a big gun and long, flowing locks of hair (just like communist spy Maria Butina fleeced the local shameless GOP/NRA) she insinuated herself into operations, vamping for the camera in a bulletproof vest while masked agents rounded up fellow humans like cattle. Grim, to be sure, but at least she contributed a shred of comic relief (unintended, of course) to our new, sad reality of federal agents invading American cities and abducting people off the streets, out of their cars and from their homes.”
Congressionally she was “questioned about her response to the ICE killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis (she incorrectly called Good a domestic terrorist and claimed Pretti was involved in an act of domestic terrorism). She was grilled about the department spending $172 million for the purchase of two jets (how about her SD jet litany of a tall tale, too?), the nature of her relationship with top Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski, and her $220-million ad campaign for the department, which starred none other than ….” LA Times (3/6/26)
Some rodeo queen!?? Classic red-state GOP Rep./governor
If it seems cruel, consider that Homeland Security posted holiday-themed deportation memes around Christmas, proclaiming that federal agents were stepping up removals “for the holidays!”
HO HO HO! As the world turns, or are these the days of our lives, eh?
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latest headline:
Kristi Noem revealed divorce at birthday bash marred by ‘bimbofication’ backlash.
A “blindsided” Noem had flown back to South Dakota for an (armed?) grandchild’s birthday party. Noem’s husband was reportedly living a “secret double life” and had been active online in the “bimbofication scene,” sending fetish models photos of himself with balloons under women’s clothing that imitated breasts. Arnold referred to the discovery as the “unbearable final blow” to their marriage.
msn, this week
Hear, hear Leslie.