You don’t get to be Senate boss by being completely stupid. Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) is attacking fringe House Republicans across the state with…
Posts tagged as “2016 HB 1182”
South Dakota Republicans are salivating at the prospect of judicial activists overturning stare decisis and allowing South Dakota to conscript out-of-state businesses in South Dakota’s effort…
Well, I screwed that story up. Yesterday I reported, based on a hasty reading of Senate Bill 35 that the conference committee had stripped the…
I published my final 2016 campaign newsletter in Monday’s Aberdeen American News. Along with a nice picture of Stephanie Herseth Sandlin and me and a big campaign card on…
On October 11, I reported that Rep Isaac Latterell (R-6/Tea?) was deceptively advertising his credentials as a supporter of education, even though he vigorously resisted…
The Republicans candidates for District 3 Senate and House spoke on education to not quite two dozen neighbors at the Northern State University Noon Forum yesterday. Rep. Dan…
Ping. Ping. Ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping— Rep. Isaac Latterell (R-6/a P.O. Box in Tea) sets off the B.S. meter with this ad misportraying himself as a defender of education:…
South Dakota’s primary provided the first test of the electoral impact of votes on House Bill 1182, the 0.5% sales tax enacted last week to provide…
Bob Mercer notes that the South Dakota Education Association is giving money to Republicans who supported the half-penny sales tax for teacher pay this year. The…
Rep. Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) isn’t running for reëlection, but he’s watching his Legislative baby like a hawk. Recall that Rep. Schoenbeck saved the teacher pay-raise plan last winter…