Speaker G. Mark Mickelson tells Seth Tupper on RCJ’s new podcast that choosing not to run for governor was “freeing.” Apparently he means he’s now…
Tag: initiative
Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) has a good idea: let’s require ballot question committees to tell us who’s funding their petition drives while they are…
Initiative-hating Republicans are sure to portray the submission of over 50,000 signatures yesterday to place the Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption Act (we’ll see if IM22 2.0…
With Represent South Dakota’s circulators now off the streets, New Approach South Dakota is going all out, not just for its three initiative petitions (medical…
Doug Kronaizl of Represent South Dakota says over 50,000 of you have signed the petition his group will submit in Pierre tomorrow to place the…
Will they bring Batman? Represent South Dakota is inviting citizens mad about corruption in Pierre and the repeal of Initiated Measure 22 to join them…
After losing in circuit court last month, the pharmaceutical industry is asking the South Dakota Supreme Court to hear their argument that Attorney General Marty…
The Legislature’s task force on initiative and referendum wrapped up its work on Friday by taking the last good proposal it had, the Citizen Initiative…
Yesterday I erroneously complained on Twitter that, with just two hours to go before the Initiative and Referendum Task Force met, the Legislative Research Council…
During his campaign for Senate last year, Al Novstrup cried that the low point of his time in the Legislature was when I suggested a…