Alas, Attorney General Mark Vargo’s incorrect explanation of the proposed ballot initiative to repeal the state sales tax on food has delayed the petition drive…
Tag: initiatives
Last month, Attorney General Mark Vargo issued draft explanations of two initiatives proposing to repeal South Dakota’s sales tax on food. The Attorney General’s drafts…
The only sign of progress in South Dakota’s election results is that South Dakotans chose to expand Medicaid. Overriding years of Legislative inaction rooted in…
Mark Vargo made a mistake yesterday. The Attorney General read the initiatives proposed by Dakotans for Health to repeal South Dakota’s state sales tax on…
John Fiksdal, whose company Media One is part of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce, is taking the Chamber’s call to Vote NO on Amendment…
When Senator Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Lake Kampeska) craftily moved the vote on Amendment C, the 60% vote threshold for fiscal ballot measures, to this year’s primary…
According to the Secretary of State’s ballot question website, only one initiative petition was submitted yesterday, the Medicaid expansion amendment sponsored by the big hospitals…
If you’re looking for a quick two weeks of work, the four committees circulating ballot question initiatives would be happy to put you to work.…
Sponsors of South Dakota’s proposed initiated constitutional amendments have two weeks and two days to collect their 33,921 petition signatures and submit their completed petitions…
Republicans have another bill attacking the initiative process in South Dakota. Representative Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence), with the backing of my neighbor Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen)…