I have been asked by more than one friend if we should refer House Bills 1177 and 1196 to a public vote. My tentative answer…
Tag: initiative
More blogging on the radio! KSOO’s Patrick Lalley chose not to sing and invited me on air to talk about Legislative antipathy toward ballot measures…
Another petition bites the dust. Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced today that the independent redistricting petition submitted by Charles Parkinson four months ago appears…
The top-two open-primary amendment sponsored by Joe Kirby and De Knudson will not be on the November ballot. Secretary of State Shantel Krebs yesterday rejected…
Alas, the Legislature is not listening to constitutional or practical conservative sense on House Bill 1007. The hoghoused bill, which now simply reads, “No initiated…
Democracy won a few battles in the Legislature yesterday. Most notably, the House killed House Bill 1275, which would have required ballot question petitioners to obtain…
However the Republicans’ three initiative-wrecking amendments fare in House State Affairs this morning, a bunch of democracy defenders will hold a press conference in Sioux…
One candidate hoping to march straight from the Women’s March to Pierre is Sheryl Johnson, Democrat for District 11 House. Johnson posts her concern for…
Patrick Lalley keeps letting me come on his radio program. Today on KSOO, we talked about initiative, referendum, and our overreaching Legislature. Here’s today’s Patrick…
BiPartisan Dakotans, a Rapid City PAC run by Jody Severson and Jeff Masten, has set up a website to counter the Republican Legislature’s war on…