In the undercard to PBS NewsHour’s report on the effort to reverse South Dakota’s resistance to Medicaid expansion, Dan Bush suggests the hospital lobby may launch…
Tag: initiative
Want to stop the anti-transgender nonsense in Pierre? Call a Constitutional Convention. My thoughts on the matter of calling a Constitutional Convention started not with…
Amy Scott-Stoltz, president of the League of Women Voters, interviewed me last night to put together a helpful video for all South Dakotans who would…
Longtime marijuana advocate and petitioner Emmett Reistroffer is trail-ballooning an initiative to give South Dakotans the ability to recall more elected officials. The only officials…
Maybe this event was in the works before Pam Cole’s job change, but the former Democratic Party exec may be out earning her money as…
I haven’t had much to say about the Legislature’s Democratic caucus this Session, since there aren’t enough of them to make much difference on the…
Senate Bill 77, the 14-point-font rule designed to crush initiative petitions, isn’t on its way to the Governor’s desk yet. The bill just needed concurrence…
Just yesterday, the A.G.’s statement for the independent redistricting initiative popped up on the Secretary of State’s website. The letter is dated and stamped received…
Pam Cole left her job as executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party last month. But she didn’t leave campaigning for progress in South…
House Joint Resolution 5003, Representative Jon Hansen’s (R-25/Dell Rapids) nefarious effort to erode our initiative power by imposing a 60% vote threshold on any initiative…