In his address to the Legislature two weeks ago, Governor Larry Rhoden told legislators he “would love it if” House Bill 1044, the Rural Health…
Tag: ballot questions
When citizens put constitutional amendments on the ballot, Representative Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) gets all worried that voters will destroy rural residents’ rights. But now when…
One of the arguments Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Jon Hansen (R-25/Dell Rapids) has made in his ongoing war against initiative and referendum is that he…
First a novel, now a paper in the South Dakota Law Review! My friend Reynold Nesiba emailed me back in January: “Of all of the…
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…
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…