Sure, I’m taking the state to court to reform our ballot question petition rules, but we have lots of good changes to make at the…
Tag: initiative
I’ve said and explained on many occasions that this year’s House Bill 1094, the most egregious provisions of which are now encapsulated in SDCL 2-1-1.3–2.1.1.9,…
The Legislative Research Council needed just eighteen days to study SD Voice’s latest proposed initiative and determine that, by their best guess, repealing the new and…
Well, darn it! The Deadwood gambling industry decided not to try placing an initiative on the 2020 ballot to allow ’round-the-clock hooch sales at their…
Any political speech that begins with “I am a jerk” clearly deserves a full hearing. Bob Newland spoke to the South Dakota Libertarian Party convention…
South Dakota Community Action, a Sioux Falls group led by Paul Thronson and Nick Zachariasen, has submitted and received LRC review of a sixth draft…
Roz Brown of the Public News Service gets one of South Dakota’s top pundits to explain the inherent philosophical flaw in the Republican Party’s 2017…
Lee Strubinger talked to me today about my failure to refer House Bill 1094, the petition circulator registry and badging requirement that will take effect…
Sorry, folks! No referendum. I sought to suspend and refer to the 2020 ballot House Bill 1094, the odious, volunteer-killing, and likely unconstitutional requirement that…
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…