First responders—firefighters and EMTs, the heroes Kristi Noem likes to have her picture taken with—say they’re voting to expand Medicaid in South Dakota. At an…
Tag: Amendment D
Senate Commandant—er, President Pro-Tem—Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) was on the phone with Lori Walsh on SDPB this noon making stuff up about Medicaid expansion, which…
In today’s ballot question surprise, Dakotans for Health has withdrawn its Initiated Measure 28, a proposed law to expand Medicaid. Dakotans for Health submitted a…
Dakotans for Health, the ballot question committee sponsoring Initiated Measure 28, pays me for a variety of work. Dakotans for Health is not paying for…
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…
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…
Monday’s weak committee approval of Senate Bill 186 foreshadowed its dismal prospects in the full Senate. Senator Wayne Steinhauer’s attempt to beat voters to the…
The Steinhauer/Rave gambit is on! Since the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations* announced its coalition and its plan to circulate a petition to write…
Evidently ballot measures can coax some Republicans to support Medicaid at least as much as they support marijuana. Senator Wayne Steinhauer (R-9/Wall Lake) went to breakfast…