In a remarkable double-header this morning, Greg Belfrage interviewed liberal blogger me at 8:05 and Republican State Senator Stace Nelson at 8:35 as his first guests of 2017. Holy cow—that’s…
Tag: corruption
We would like to blame Mr. Sveen, but we’re not going to do that. —Reed Rasmussen, attorney for the defense, saying the second-most interesting thing…
As I read through the court documents in Curd et al. v. South Dakota, the GOP legislators’ lawsuit to overturn Initiated Measure 22, I find one remarkable passage…
Governor Dennis Daugaard identified Initiated Measure 22 as Budget Enemy #1 in his budget address yesterday. He says the $4.9 million ($9 times 546,615 currently…
I’d love to write a novelization of the South Dakota EB-5 scandal, but I feel like I have to wait until every single strand of…
Republican District 17 Senator and retired judge Arthur Rusch and Democratic candidate for District 17 House Mark Winegar are having a semantic disagreement over the GEAR…
My friend Russell Graeff is working hard to beat Stace Nelson in the District 19 Senate race. He continues to work the ballot measures for Election Day…
Remember how last spring Attorney General Marty Jackley said the Legislature wasn’t going far enough to fight corruption? He’s at it again, calling for tougher penalties for…
KSFY dispatches its Aberdeen bureau to cover the riveting District 3 Senate race! Alas, Mondesir mispastes my statement on corruption to Initiated Measure 22. The clip…
“Gant Scam Continues!” hoots an eager reader in my inbox. Why, yes, it does. Along with drafting reforms (and a couple deforms) to election and petition law,…