Last spring, Governor Kristi Noem replaced experienced educator and former legislator Jacqueline Sly with dentist and conservative toady Richard Meyer on the Board of Education…
Tag: David Johnson
Republican whackadoodles showed up in Pierre yesterday to oppose Senate Bill 40, the party elites’ plan to remove lieutenant governor, attorney general, and secretary of…
It’s not just the local grouchy, unorganized radical right-wingers who would destroy the Republic and the Republican Party, in that order, who are lobbing futile…
Yesterday I said it took three tries to kill state funding for Governor Kristi Noem’s Rapid City shooting range. I spoke too soon: gun advocates…
South Dakota Republicans aren’t the only gun nuts who’ve been pushing bills to nullify federal laws regulating firearms. Republican legislators across the country are ignoring…
Mayor Schaunaman is not going to be happy: some Republican legislators are actually trying to crack down on drone snooping! Representative David Johnson (R-33/Rapid City)…
Let’s connect some campaign finance dots and talk about the influence of out-of-state money in South Dakota politics. Back in November, Shining Light PAC, the…
Last spring, Rapid City politico Jordan Mason misrepresented my blogging in an unsuccessful attempt to paint Brown County Sheriff Mark Milbrandt as a liberal lawman.…
SDGOP Convention Had Voter Fraud, Delegate Ejections… and DiSanto Sending Progressive Smoke Signals?
Paging Krebs and Kobach: the only evidence of voter fraud in South Dakota this year comes from the Republican Convention, where Pennington County Republican delegates…
I made more than a little deal out of the Citizens for Liberty Legislative scorecards on general and fiscal conservatism. Republicans voters did not. There…