Update 13:25 CST: Hold on! The editorial I discuss below was originally published by the Rapid City Journal on November 15! The Bismarck Tribune reprinted it on November…
Tag: initiative
Three more ballot measures made yesterday’s submission deadline in the Secretary of State’s office. I’ll write up each of these newly submitted measures today. For…
Augustana poli-sci prof Emily Wanless tells KELO to chill out with its talk of voter fatigue a whole year before the election: Wanless doesn’t think discouragement…
This afternoon, South Dakotans for Ethics Reform, led by Democrat Rick Weiland and Republican Don Frankenfeld, handed Shantel Krebs a petition with 25,216 signatures to place the…
She smiles about it. Lisa Furlong crawls out of her undisclosed, media-proof hole in North Sioux City and submits a lie to the Secretary of State.…
Shantel Krebs is on the radio right now—oops! she’s back in the office, so here’s today’s big petition news: the real 36% rate cap petition is in!…
Pot didn’t win in Ohio last night, but redistricting did. 64% of Ohio voters rejected a ballot measure that would have legalized marijuana. 71% of Ohio voters…
Republican operative Jason Glodt handed Secretary of State Shantel Krebs just about 53,000 signatures yesterday on a petition to place a costly and unnecessary “crime victims’ bill…
Three posts?! I really should stop Glodting…. Amidst all the useful revelations of anti-conservative, budget-busting bureaucracy entailed in his “crime victims bill of rights” initiative,…
Republican activist Jason Glodt shoehorned his way onto the agenda of the Jolene’s Law Task Force yesterday. Co-opting precious minutes away from a meeting dedicated mostly to…