Attorney and city councilman Rob Ronayne rebuts three key points that local Republicans have been using to distract from rookie Mayor Travis Schaunaman’s blatant conflict…
Tag: ethics
The Sioux Falls Board of Ethics contrived an excuse last month to tell city council members that they shouldn’t collect signatures on municipal initiative petitions.…
My local paper finally catches up with my reporting and notes that the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce has indeed suspended the selection process for a…
If Aberdeen does need a new marketing campaign (and that’s still an open debate), Mayor Travis Schaunaman’s naked self-promotion has delayed its implementation. At Tuesday’s…
To prove that he has no conflict of interest, Aberdeen Mayor Travis Schaunaman uses the privilege of his weekly mayor’s column in my local paper…
Local attorney Scott Kuck serves on Aberdeen’s Board of Ethics (hey! there’s something I didn’t know we had!). Kuck models his ethical behavior with this…
Lobbyist extraordinaire Jeremiah M. Murphy stepped before House Education yesterday and made exactly the arguments that I made against Representative Kaleb Weis’s ill-advised Teacher Code…
Can legislators shoot advertisements soliciting donations for lobbyists at the Capitol? Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) thinks so. At 1:26 in this public Facebook video,…
Early voting is only three days away (get to your county courthouse Friday, 8 a.m., and be the first to vote!), and sample ballots and…
In his speech at the Brown County Democratic Party’s picnic in Aberdeen yesterday, attorney general candidate Randy Seiler said he plans to file a complaint…