Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers final passage yesterday of four bills relating to corruption: Today #SDLeg gave final passage to HB1052, HB1073, HB1076, and SB27 –…
Tag: Initiated Measure 22
As I told Greg Belfrage on KELO Radio Friday, the main problem with the so-called “replacement” bills is that IM22 was meant to check the power of the Legislature, but the “replacement”…
Let’s try this—the first Dakota Free Press Podcast! I met Aberdeen comedian Spencer Dobson at last Saturday’s crackerbarrel. I’m not nearly as funny as Spencer,…
No one hit the panic button on House Bill 1073 yesterday, House State Affairs approved HB 1073 unanimously with amendments. HB 1073 is one of…
The single truest statement of today’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel came from Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark): Every time someone’s made a comment today that’s anti-Legislature, it’s been…
Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill 1069 yesterday, thus making the “emergency” repeal of Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, the first enacted bill of the 2017…
Who needs Saturday Night Live? The floor debate leading up to the Senate’s 27–8 vote to repeal Initiated Measure 22 with the doubly unconstitutional (multi-subject, bogus emergency clause) House…
Governing notices the South Dakota Legislature’s attack on people power (see all the bills here), particularly the effort to repeal Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, with…