Hot off the Mac—it’s the latest Dakota Free Press Podcast! In Episode #16, friend of the blog Joe Berns joins co-host Spencer Dobson to sit…
Tag: campaign finance
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson is proposing a second ballot initiative, this one to ban out-of-state financing of campaigns for and against ballot measures. Just like…
The Government Accountability Task Force, which was created by Senate Bill 171 to study campaign finance and held its first meeting yesterday, shares the Secretary…
The last invitation to a megabuck (well, technically, kilobuck) fundraiser for Marty Jackley‘s gubernatorial campaign suggests one area of support where Jackley may, surprisingly, get…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Marty Jackley plies the jock vote by announcing a family fun-draiser June 8 in Sioux Falls with professional athletes Chad Greenway and Mike Miller.…
The good news: Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Marty Jackley is coming to town to talk to constituents! The bad news: it’ll cost my sweetie and…
Bob Mercer’s report on the Legislative Executive Board’s meeting Monday contains a number of interesting nuggets. First, the Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force will be…
Dakota War College reads FEC reports and gives favorable coverage to Dusty Johnson, who buys ads on DWC, and critical coverage to Shantel Krebs, who has…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
The Aberdeen American News interviews local legislators— —oops! Wrong headline… Today’s front-pager has area Republicans signaling they want to revisit campaign finance, an issue on which they ran…