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Tag: Amendment C
A couple of ballot question committees I thought might have thrown some weight in the Amendment C fight have remained quiet so far this spring.…
Dark money or dark horse? Just yesterday one Michael Caalim filed a statement of organization for “South Dakotans for Fiscal Responsibility,” a new ballot question…
I expressed a little angst a couple weeks ago over the statement from South Dakotans Decide Healthcare, the ballot question committee sponsoring Amendment D for…
John Fiksdal, whose company Media One is part of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, is taking the Chamber’s call to Vote NO on Amendment…
The out-of-state pro-plutocracy group Americans for Prosperity is driving the campaign for Amendment C, the 60% vote threshold that is our Republican Party’s latest ploy…
The Republican line on Amendment C has been that the Legislature has to muster a two-thirds vote to approve new taxes and special spending bills,…
When Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) craftily moved the vote on Amendment C, the 60% vote threshold for fiscal ballot measures, to this year’s primary…
While we wait for Secretary of State Steve Barnett to crank out his sampling spreadsheet and figure out if enough registered voters have signed petitions…
My radar pings sharply when Republicans suggest more revisions to initiative rules and procedures. Republican Representative Tim Goodwin (R-30/Sheridan Lake) tells KELO-TV that, considering the…