The most crushing, crowd-pleasing comeback of last night’s ballot question forum in Sioux Falls came from Amendment V campaign chairman Rick Knobe, just seconds after…
Tag: campaign finance
Sure, Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, comes from Democrat Rick Weiland’s efforts to reform South Dakota politics via ballot measure. But Weiland has assembled…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs convened her special bipartisan panel on campaign finance reform yesterday and found “solid support” for allowing businesses to contribute directly…
Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump in South Dakota… in fundraising. According to Christopher Doering’s reading of FEC reports through the end of July, Clinton has…
Ah, so now we have the real reason the Koch brothers are trying to defeat Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act. It’s not so much the “Democracy Credits” that…
Update 2015.09.15 10:19: The original August 9 version of this story reported 20 committees, with no opposition to 19, 20, R, or S. Since that…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs says she’s seeking public input and convening a committee to discuss campaign finance reform: Secretary Krebs says she wants campaign finance…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has appointed Freeman oilman Scott Stern to succeed J. Pat Costello as Commissioner of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. The Governor’s office provides…
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jay Williams offers a variety of informative policy statements in his responses to yesterday’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session. But he slips…
Bloomberg BNA reports on more frequent instances of political donors backing both liberal and conservative super PACs. The article provides this table showing organizations that have given money to super…