Representative Tony Venhuizen (R-13/Sioux Falls) got the House to go along with his attempt to gum up Medicaid expansion with a work requirement, but he…
Tag: initiative
House Bill 1200‘s geographical quota for constitutional amendment petitions would make it practically impossible for citizens to put constitutional amendments on the ballot. But no…
When I received the Eighth Circuit’s solid affirmation of my challenge to South Dakota’s unconstitutionally early 12-month deadline for submitting initiative petitions, I considered teasing…
I was talking with an acquaintance with a fair political background but no knowledge of South Dakota politics or my own political activity. I mentioned…
The South Dakota Republican Party’ latest attack on direct democracy is House Bill 1200, which would impose a geographical quota on petition signatures to place…
In 2018, South Dakota voters incorrectly and anti-democratically approved Amendment Z, the single-subject rule for proposed constitutional amendments. In 2021, Governor Kristi Noem and the…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again… but first sit around and wait for four years? In another attack on the right of…
In 2002, Bob Newland led a campaign for a constitutional amendment (Amendment A) to give defendants the right to argue the merits of the laws…
Libby Skarin of the ACLU urges South Dakotans to talk about abortion: …if we want to make it clear that the majority of South Dakotans…
Remember what I said Tuesday about how any activists interested in launching an initiative petition drive needed to submit their language by Wednesday to avoid…