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Tag: initiative
I smell something funny in the fiscal impact statements on the marijuana-related ballot measures currently being petitioned around South Dakota. The Legislative Research Council has…
Proliferating ballot measures again capture reporter Bob Mercer’s weekend column attention. Mercer’s latest Capitol Notebook notes that with three measures already on the ballot and eleven…
The oddly redundant, ominously anti-First Amendment initiated amendment proposed by Jason Glodt (and approved by Secretary of State Shantel Krebs for circulation on Tuesday) appears to be…
Attorney General Marty Jackley yesterday released explanations for not one but two initiated constitutional amendments from Rick Weiland and Drey Samuelson, founders of TakeItBack.org. These are the…
I should have known better. Rather than finding some legal hammer to drop on Lisa Furlong and her belligerent, lying petitioners for trying to sabotage South Dakota’s…
A healthy, democratic petition mania continues to grip South Dakota. The Sioux Falls Historical Society is hosting a meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) night at 7 p.m. at the Sioux…
John Tsitrian thinks the South Dakota Government Accountability and Anti-Corruption Act, coming soon to a petition near you, is a good idea. The Rapid City blogger says…
Here’s the text of a letter to my Aberdeen neighbors that I’m hoping the Aberdeen paper will publish: From April through June, you saw me with…
Pat Powers’s response to the redistricting amendment about to hit the petition trail shows just how cheap his politics is. Instead of focusing on the merits…