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Tag: Initiated Measure 21
Even elitist Republican Speaker G. Mark Mickelson admits that the initiative and referendum process is “very cool.” It certainly was cool in 2016, when it…
The payday lenders may have shut down their loan shark shops in South Dakota following the voters’ sensible and overwhelming judgment last November that charging more…
Amidst the Legislature’s zeal for repealing Initiated Measure 22 (and rubbing that repeal in voters’ faces), I’ve been keeping an eye out for signs they might…
Victoria Lusk reports that payday lender Check’n Go is closing its doors next week, thanks to voters’ wise decision to cap short-term interest rates at 36%…
The fact that Dusty Johnson is running for Congress is pretty cool. But even cooler is the likely reason that we know he’s running now: the swift enactment…
Sioux Falls/Las Vegas loan shark Chuck Brennan stayed mostly quiet during fight between rate-capping reformers and payday lenders on this year’s South Dakota ballot. The…
Steve Hildebrand gets to spike the ball. Unbowed and unbeaten by the vile and false attacks of his big-money opponents, the co-sponsor of Initiated Measure 21 celebrates…
Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard just hammered a stake through the heart of the payday lenders’ big lie that Initiated Measure 21 is a liberal Obama-Clinton plot. After telling…
The payday lenders have adopted the same offensive, fact-free strategy as Pat Powers and the South Dakota Republican Party: when you can’t win a campaign on…