Pat Powers sifts through the October federal campaign finance reports from our U.S. House candidates and finds Shantel Krebs outraising Dusty Johnson by 12% during fair…
Tag: campaign finance
The campaign finance draft legislation I was looking for last week is finally up on the Government Accountability Task Force’s website, just in time for…
Will they bring Batman? Represent South Dakota is inviting citizens mad about corruption in Pierre and the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 to join them…
The Government Accountability Task Force, empaneled by the 2017 Legislature to look into campaign finance rules, will hold its third and final meeting on Monday,…
If Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is serious about banning out-of-state money from South Dakota politics, he needs to expand his focus from ballot measures to…
Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) says he wants the Legislature to offer voters a chance to repeal the crime victims bill…
South Dakota Forward, one of the groups formed in reaction to the grave errors of the 2016 election, has organized itself as a political action…
What does it mean if the Legislature holds task force subcommittee meetings on campaign finance reform and nobody shows up? Senator Jordan Youngberg (R-8/Madison) concludes…
I like the Stace Nelson/Gordon Howie/Lora Hubbel wing of the South Dakota Republican Party. I keep hoping they’ll get serious and run a viable statewide…