The new Sparrow redistricting map enacted last month has won praise from Democrats for drawing, in the words of South Dakota Democratic Party chairman Randy…
Tag: gerrymandering
Representative Mark Willadsen (R-11/Sioux Falls) will need to change the name of his Legislative campaign committee, “Mark Willadsen for SD House of Representatives Dist. 11.”…
Launching a once-in-history impeachment proved easier than completing the once-a-decade drawing of Legislative districts. Negotiations and cartographic scribblings dragged on at the Capitol through a second…
A couple of Twitter friends point out one radical bit of gerrymandering in the House-favored “Grouse” redistricting map proposed by Representative Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen): Vermillion…
How far will Kristi Noem go to please Donald Trump? How about handing him your driver license data so he can circumvent a court order…
Voters thumbed down a proposal to get rid of gerrymandering with an independent redistricting commission in 2016. Chuck Parkinson fell 9% short of the signatures…
Former District 25 legislator Dan Ahlers tells the Federal Election Commission he’s running for U.S. Senate. That’s great—call me when Ahlers announces, and we can…
Former Dell Rapids legislator Dan Ahlers wants to do some more legislating… by the people! He’d like us to vote on amending the state constitution…
Senator Al Novstrup needs to learn when not to play his word games. Teaching him that lesson last night was Representative Susan Wismer. At the…
The SDGOP spin blog really overworked itself trying to portray local reporting on the advantage Republicans derive from gerrymandering as “fake news.” Three consecutive posts…