Warming up for Attorney General Marty Jackley’s press conference in Platte today at 1 p.m. Central, Angela Kennecke goes to town on the state’s GEAR UP…
Tag: corruption
The corruption in Pierre is so bad— —How bad is it?!— —it’s so bad that even the local paper in this government town has to admit that…
Unable to come up with any rational defense of the man who gave him a cushy state job, GOP Pat Powers offers this feeble flacking for former Secretary…
Republican Secretary of State Shantel Krebs previews (pre-empts?) the campaign message you’ll hear from South Dakota Democrats in every campaign in 2016: “I’d heard from bankers, I’d…
Bob Mercer and I are reading and thinking the same things. That historic state flag isn’t the only thing that went missing under Jason Gant’s Secretary of…
Yesterday Jason Glodt and Marsy’s Law—today Aberdeen gets the three-play: city, school, now county commission! The Brown County Commission is evidently so sick of hearing folks slag IT…
Bob Mercer did fine work over the weekend summarizing the main findings in the 18-page letter USCIS sent the Governor’s Office of Economic Development on September…
Remember how House Majority Leader Rep. Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) said this week that South Dakota doesn’t need an ethics commission because the Legislature had thoroughly investigated the…
Rick Weiland and Don Frankenfeld get some TV time for their Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption initiative petition, currently circulating at a street corner near you. Hailey Higgins…
Like the Benda/Bollen/GOED/EB-5 scandal before it, the Westerhuis/Melmer/MCEC/GEAR UP scandal is prompting Democrats to push for a state ethics commission. (Job #1 for such a commission:…