A year and a half ago, when Republican legislators scrambled to come up with a replacement for their petition circulator registry scheme that I destroyed…
Tag: First Amendment
In her weekly propaganda column, Governor Kristi Noem appeals to the phallus-y absolutism of the Second Amendment: The Constitution doesn’t always use plain language, but…
In another attack on the integrity of Northern State University and other-oriented public behavior, a letter to the editor in my local Monday paper claims…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…
…And We Still Need a Ruling on Petition Deadlines! This news will be no comfort to the family of Joe Boever and all South Dakotans…
That Dakota Dunes flag bill whose title cropped up briefly on the LRC website last month has officially emerged as Senate Bill 81, Senator Jim Bolin’s…
Among my small pleasures this relaxing morning is clicking on the SDGOP spin blog’s link to right-wing-extremist platform Parler and getting the “404 Not Found”…
I seem to recall that, back in 2017, when the South Dakota Senate prepared to offend democracy by repealing Initiated Measure 22, there was some…
Thinking about initiatives gets me thinking about petitions and the challenges folks will face come November when they start collecting signatures to place substantive policy…
But let’s not fall for Lee Schoenbeck’s nice-guy act, or for Julie Frye-Mueller’s hogwash about Lee’s being an “East River liberal.” The Watertown Senator may…