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: ballot questions
South Dacola reports that the business-class opponents of the proposed Wholestone Farms hog slaughterhouse in Sioux Falls have officially organized a ballot question committee: This…
We win! We win! You, me, my ballot question committee, every citizen who wants to put a law to a vote, every citizen who likes…
The Libertarian Party of South Dakota doesn’t think my ballot question committee is some lawless out-of-state liberal plot. Far from it: the Libertarian Party is…
The South Dakota Board of Elections meets tomorrow in by conference call. In addition to discussing where they’ll force us to write Jon Hansen’s redundant…
Ballot question committee SD Voice and Aberdeen pro-democracy activist Cory Allen Heidelberger have filed their response to the state’s arguments in their lawsuit challenging the…
RCJ: Banning Out-of-State Contributions to Ballot Question Committees Hypocritical, Unconstitutional
Now that the South Dakota Newspaper Association is party to a lawsuit seeking the repeal of Initiated Measure 24, the Rapid City Journal lets fly with an…
Representative Jon Hansen’s first Wednesday hoghouse was about creating cost and complication for ballot question sponsors at the end of the petition process. His second…
On January 6, I pointed out how the Secretary of State’s office had read statute exactly wrong in advising that ballot question sponsors need to…
Senate Joint Resolution 1, the plot to take away more of your voice and let legislators sit in Pierre for four years at a stretch,…