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…
Tag: initiative
The Legislature’s interim task force on initiative and referendum will meet one more time this week Friday. After approving nine draft bills that on balance…
Neal Gabler writes that the most successful lie that chronically myth-making Republicans have foisted upon us is that liberals are unwelcome deviants from America’s conservative…
De Knudson came to Aberdeen today to see some old friends and collect signatures for the Open Primaries South Dakota initiative petition. Amidst that business,…
What does it mean if the Legislature holds task force subcommittee meetings on campaign finance reform and nobody shows up? Senator Jordan Youngberg (R-8/Madison) concludes…
Joe Kirby, De Knudson, Chuck Parkinson, and friends are finally circulating their initiative petition to create open primaries in South Dakota. They got the Attorney…
In 2015, payday lenders tried to delay circulation of the payday loan rate cap petition by challenging the Attorney General’s official explanation of the measure.…
The South Dakota Board of Elections meets on September 27 to consider new legislation for 2018 and hold public hearings on a bunch of small…
The Government Accountability Task Force, another pretense of concern created by the Legislature to distract us from the repeal of the campaign finance reform we…