Under our discussion of the 33 bills enacted immediately under “emergency” clauses, Donald Pay points out a glaring contradiction in the Legislature’s emergency placement of…
Tag: initiative
The Legislature passed nine new laws this year that weaken our right to vote on laws and constitutional amendments. We will have two chances in…
South Dakota, the state that first enacted initiative and referendum, may be about to kill it. People keep asking me whether we should refer any…
I filed two candidate petitions at the Secretary of State’s office in Pierre yesterday, one for Brooks Briscoe, one for myself. Secretary of State Shantel…
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…
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…