Billie Sutton shoots and scores! His new video ad goes after corruption in Pierre and shows something his Republican opponent Kristi Noem: a voting record…
Tag: 2017 SB 54
During today’s Senate State Affairs hearing on Senate Bill 129, Senator Al Novstrup asked about the use of the term “entity” in the campaign finance…
The Government Accountability Task Force, which was created by Senate Bill 171 to study campaign finance and held its first meeting yesterday, shares the Secretary…
The Aberdeen American News interviews local legislators— —oops! Wrong headline… Today’s front-pager has area Republicans signaling they want to revisit campaign finance, an issue on which they ran…
Get your latest Dakota Free Press podcast, right here, right now! The highlight of Episode 003 is Spencer Dobson’s interview with local art professor Sara Christensen Blair…
Initiated Measure 22 ran 70 sections, 15,388 words, but achieved all of its main campaign finance reforms (not counting Democracy Credits and the ethics commission)…
While trying to sort out the chaos wrought by the Legislature’s repeal of Initiated Measure 22 and its subsequent multipronged tinkerings, I just discovered a…
Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…
As I told Greg Belfrage on KELO Radio Friday, the main problem with the so-called “replacement” bills is that IM22 was meant to check the power of the Legislature, but the “replacement”…
To excuse their repeal of Initiated Measure 22, Republican legislators have promised to respect the popular will by passing replacement measures to satisfy the voters’ stated…