The House yesterday voted 58–11 for House Bill 1055, a seemingly harmless little bill from the Secretary of State that changes the timeframe for terminating…
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The Secretary of State has offered a handful of bills of keen interest to election nerds. Discussed by the Board of Elections last summer, none…
Republicans have been using high-sounding sighs about mental health as a way to distract us from sensible gun control measures to reduce the risk of…
I’d sure hate being Pat Powers, running a blog paid for by my party establishment and thus feeling obligated to run every disingenuous press release…
In other really pressing matters, Kristi Noem is raising money to “fight back” against the “Radical Left” to defend Donald Trump from impeachment. So Noem…
An eager reader suggests I look up the statutes on dissolving a political party. Nothing goes better with breakfast than reading South Dakota Codified Law,…
Meanwhile, in a sign that he’s caught Donald Trump’s detachment from reality, Senator Mike Rounds is claiming in a new fundraising e-mail that he has…
Former District 25 legislator Dan Ahlers tells the Federal Election Commission he’s running for U.S. Senate. That’s great—call me when Ahlers announces, and we can…
Senator Mike Rounds dispatches his wife Jean to put her name to a fundraising letter for his reelection campaign as well as a little fluffy…
The Sioux Falls Board of Ethics contrived an excuse last month to tell city council members that they shouldn’t collect signatures on municipal initiative petitions.…