Maybe discussing state issues is irrelevant to legislative campaign success. But that didn’t stop me from responding to the South Dakota State Medical Association PAC‘s survey on a…
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As I talk to voters, I regularly steer the conversation away from Presidential politics and encourage voters to discuss South Dakota’s ten ballot questions, education funding, corruption, and…
Following the violent tactics used by Dakota Access’s goon squad Saturday, the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes have asked for a temporary restraining order to…
This is no lie—Senator David Novstrup has helped me recruit good campaign help and turn at least one Republican into a Democrat. Writing up Referred Law 20, Novstrup’s plan…
The latest USA Today/Suffolk poll finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by seven points, whether we include Gary Johnson and Jill Stein or not. It also finds Clinton supporters…
More polling! Let’s hear what you, dear readers, think of Referred Law 19, the election/petition reform bill that I have labeled the Incumbent Protection Act.…
Is any private business activity worth attacking opponents of one’s work with trucks, dogs, and mace? Dakota Access thinks its pipeline is worth doing physical harm to human…
The Scott and Nicole Westerhuis estate auction is off and running: Wieman Land & Auction has the grim duty of auctioning off items that we…
Keep your darned hands off my Essential Air Service! So may shout some over-entitled Republicans who’ve been celebrating the chance to force us taxpayers to foot most of the…
Friend of the blog David Bergan notes that the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce has posted issue briefs on all ten statewide ballot questions. (Actually, there…