Joe Kirby of Open Primaries South Dakota got hold of me yesterday after my blog post on his group’s new open-primary amendment and shared the draft amendment his group…
Tag: initiative
Joe Kirby and De Knudson are telling the press about their intention to bring another open primaries amendment to a public vote in 2018: Joe Kirby,…
Conservative Republican and former legislator Fred Deutsch says the “Death with Dignity” ballot measure is all death and no dignity. Rejecting the petitioners’ preferred terminology and claims of compassion, Deutsch…
The Legislative Executive Board’s memo on pending initiatives indicates that ballot question committees Represent South Dakota and South Dakota Voter Protection may avoid circulating competing ballot measures. As…
The Legislature’s Executive Board spent some time yesterday talking about the greatest threat to their club, initiative and referendum. A Legislative Research Council brief on initiatives…
Greg Belfrage went to town on Represent South Dakota and their proposed Voter Protection and Anti-Corruption Amendment on his KELO Radio show this morning. Belfrage…
Here’s a twist: Roxanne Weber and Nicholas Rasmussen of South Dakota Voter Protection did not submit one draft of an initiated constitutional amendment to protect the…
A second initiated amendment is afoot! A new website, SDVoterProtection.info, which appears to have been published just yesterday, says that Roxanne Weber of Pierre and…
Yesterday Represent South Dakota submitted a constitutional amendment to the Legislative Research Council for review. Here’s the full text of that amendment for our review.…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…