*Correction! Turns out the dozer drivers lived up to my expectations! The Secretary of State’s submitted-signature count was highly inflated by the office’s counting methodology,…
Tag: initiative
With South Dakota voters successfully placing a whole passel of good democratic measures on the 2016 ballot, Republicans naturally want to continue their assault on South Dakotans’ constitutional…
We’re two steps toward the Rick Weiland trifecta! Yesterday Secretary of State Shantel Krebs certified the Anti-Corruption Act initiative petition. Secretary Krebs calculates that 18,122 out of…
Lisa Furlong, the payday lenders’ front woman for their fake 18% rate cap, didn’t respond to reporters yesterday seeking her reaction to the certification of her petition as Amendment U…
The good news: Secretary of State Shantel Krebs continues to validate petitions right on the schedule I calculated on Christmas Eve and updated last week. The bad…
The real 36% rate cap on payday loans is on the 2016 ballot! Cap the Rate SD informs me that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs…
With one initiative petition certified and seven more pending, interested citizens may be wondering about the viability of challenging any of these petitions. The first consideration is…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has certified the first of eight initiative petitions submitted at the beginning of November. Yesterday Secretary Krebs said Jason Glodt’s petition for the so-called…
That Sioux Falls paper’s new political reporter decided to write a Sunday piece about the South Dakota Democratic Party. Dana Ferguson’s report included the following statements:…
Connor Byron Hanson is on trial for the January murder of Anthony Lee Gabriel of Sioux Falls. But don’t call Gabriel a “victim,” at least not during…