In 2016, then-Representative Don Haggar of Sioux Falls voted against adding a half-percentage point to our sales tax to raise our teacher pay. (In the…
Tag: campaign finance
The SDGOP spin blog notes a couple dozen campaign committees that have still not filed their pre-general campaign finance reports, which were due October 22.…
Like true South Dakota Republicans, the Senate Republican Campaign Committee seems unable or unwilling to follow its own rules. Remember that August 19, 2018, e-mail…
Political hack Jason Ravnsborg is already stacking the Attorney General’s office with political cronies. Ravnsborg says he’ll hire Timothy Bormann as chief of staff. Bormann…
Senator Jim Bolin and his fellow Republicans really do look at the Senate as their own little country club. They even charge dues. A source…
The Senate Republican Campaign Committee in South Dakota is no piddly PAC. They started this election year with $54,753.98 in the bank. SRCC took in…
G. Mark Mickelson got swamped by Big Tobacco in his unsuccessful Initiated Measure 25 campaign to fund vo-techs by raising our tobacco tax. But he…
As Senator Stace Nelson notes in my bubbling Election Eve comment section (don’t we all have to go to work tomorrow?), Republican Representative Kyle Schoenfish…
I was hoping to compare the money raised by the five candidates for District 7 House. However, two weeks after the submission deadline, one of…
Even elitist Republican Speaker G. Mark Mickelson admits that the initiative and referendum process is “very cool.” It certainly was cool in 2016, when it…