Last week, Judge Roberto Lange wisely kept the U.S. District Court out of the wild fractiousness that has once again legally dissolved the Constitution Party…
Tag: 2018 HB 1286
The Constitution Party says it is fielding two Legislative candidates. In its website sidebar, the Constitution Party lists Rick Gortmaker as a candidate for District…
Not backed by popular demand, Lora Hubbel says she won’t be on the Republican primary ballot: I did not get the cushion of signatures that…
Speaking of running for county commission, the petition requirements in Minnehaha County demonstrate how Republicans and Democrats have rigged the system to keep independents off…
Update 11:02 CST: In my original post, I erroneously accused the Legislature of failing to fix House Bill 1286 and South Dakota’s unconstitutional ballot access laws.…
Today is the deadline for all Legislative committees to move bills to the House and Senate floors. Assuming a quorum made it back to Pierre…
House Bill 1286, as amended Friday by Rep. Spencer Hawley (D-7/Brookings), fouls the bill’s original intent of satisfying the demands of the Libertarian/Constitutionist lawsuit that…
Lori Stacey’s right: the House messed up House Bill 1286 yesterday. What started as Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s emergency bill to moot the ballot…
At Saturday’s crackerbarrel in Aberdeen, I asked our legislators to weigh in on two competing bills dealing with ballot access. House Bill 1286 defines “alternative party”…
Republican Caucus Works to Weaken Parties with Counter-Bill to Moot Conventions! The bill my sources said was coming last week to moot the Libertarian/Constitutionist lawsuit…