Democratic candidate for U.S. House Tim Bjorkman continues to speak like a budding Bernie Sanders. The judge-turned-campaigner says corporate money controls Congress, and he’s calling…
Tag: campaign finance
Speaker of the House G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) announced this week that he is abandoning one of the three ballot measures he has proposed…
Call Speaker Mickelson! Out-of-staters are trying again to co-opt South Dakota’s ballot question process! The South Dakota Right to Life booth at the Brown County…
In an unusual announcement for a ballot question committee, Represent South Dakota says that, as of August 12, it had collected 16,484 petition signatures, over…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson has received approval from the Secretary of State to start circulating his unconstitutional proposal to ban out-of-staters from contributing to ballot…
Attorney General Marty Jackley released his explanation yesterday of Speaker G. Mark Mickelson’s proposed ballot initiative to ban contributions to ballot question committees from people,…
After running without analysis Dusty Johnson’s false claim of record fundraising for his U.S. House campaign, Dakota War College further exposes its in-the-tankedness for Team Dusty…
While I was out doing original reporting, the SDGOP spin blog was printing anonymous memy bunk and its sponsors‘ press releases. Boring… and, in the…
A month after Aberdeen’s local election, Elisa Sand notes that three of our ten local city council candidates went above and beyond campaign finance requirements…
Pat Powers has it out for Shantel Krebs, who ousted his old and incompetent patron Jason Gant from the Secretary of State’s office in the…