Senate Bill 151 shows how differently two legislative chambers can view a issue. This anti-corruption measure, creating new provisions for reporting and investigating public corruption, breezed…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…
In October 2015, shortly after Scott Westerhuis killed his family and himself to avoid facing the punishment for stealing millions from taxpayers via the GEAR UP…
More corruption in South Dakota: A former Highway Patrol trooper pleaded guilty Monday to grand theft of nearly $70,000 seized during his time in law…
In trivia from yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel… Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) compared his anti-refugee bill to his mom’s anti-nuclear waste bill, saying both are simply measures to…
Who needs Saturday Night Live? The floor debate leading up to the Senate’s 27–8 vote to repeal Initiated Measure 22 with the doubly unconstitutional (multi-subject, bogus emergency clause) House…
Bob Mercer is feeling better. His first back-on-the-attack Capitol Journal will make legislators feel worse: The Wollmann episode stirred the dust about past incidents involving…
Senate State Affairs kept the “Repeal the Will of the Voters!” train rolling today, voting 7–2 (Republicans, including my District 3 Senator Al Novstrup, all aye, Democrats…
Joining the House Democratic caucus (minus Representative Shawn Bordeaux, who was excused) yesterday in opposing the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 were Republican Representatives Mike Stevens,…
Representative Mathew Wollmann (R-8/Madison) resigned from the South Dakota House today over his admitted sexual misconduct with Legislative interns over the last two years. In another case…