James Nord checks in with South Dakota’s initiative petitioners and gets both Melissa Mentele and G. Mark Mickelson to cite 15,000 as their current signature…
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Pat Powers hates anything that challenges his Republican sponsors’ absolute control of South Dakota politics. Thus, Pat Powers hates ballot measures, in which the voters…
Instead of denigrating democracy like elitist Republicans do against insolent citizens who dare challenge the supremacy of the Legislature, the Chiesman Center for Democracy has…
The South Dakota Democratic Party isn’t just sounding the alarm about all the harm the Trump Administration is doing to rural America (check out their…
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…
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…