The payday lenders’ failed lawsuit against Attorney General Marty Jackley’s official explanation of Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, was evidently nothing personal. The same company…
Tag: campaign finance
We’ve discussed in previous blogging how the inordinate amount of time our members of Congress spend in Washington at their parties’ call centers raising campaign cash keeps them from studying the…
As a Senate candidate, I’m telling my District 3 neighbors that I will fight corruption by being a watchdog, just as I do here on the…
Correction 12:23 CST: An eager reader tweets me the link to Heartland Values PAC’s FEC report for last year. It shows two $5K contributions to…
Our ballot measures stop at ten—medical marijuana doesn’t make the cut! Secretary of State Shantel Krebs and her team finally finished reviewing the medical marijuana petition…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs reminds campaigners of all stripes that their year-end campaign finance reports are due in her hands by Monday, February 1. Hop…
I’ll give Pat Powers a little credit: he appears to be realizing that reprinting press releases from his Republican sponsors adds no value to the South Dakota…
What is it about doctors turning out to be sham candidates? Just like Dr. Annette Bosworth when she ran for Senate in South Dakota in…
South Dakota Democratic Party chair Ann Tornberg has been ringing the fundraising bell with a twelve-day holiday e-mail push. But post-Citizens United, do state political parties…