The deluge cometh—Lee Strubinger reports the Legislative Research Council has 640 bill requests on its desks, compared to 350 bill requests during week #1 of…
Tag: Jim Bolin
The first bills of the 2018 Legislative Session are in the hopper! As of this morning, I find 23 Senate bills, 15 House bills, and…
Senator Jim Bolin presented the Initiative and Referendum Task Force’s mostly bad reforms to the Legislature’s Executive Board Monday. Speaker and E-Board chairman G. Mark Mickelson…
Senator Jim Bolin keeps crying that we need to protect our state constitution, and yesterday the interim task force on initiative and referendum mostly agreed…
Senator Jim Bolin joins his colleagues Rep. Tim Reed and Senator Ernie Otten in the continuing Republican war against people power. Even though he said…
…But We South Dakotans Like Changing Our Constitution! Senator Jim Bolin wants to make it harder to amend the South Dakota Constitution. Last Session, Senator…
What can we learn from yesterday’s public testimony before the Legislature’s Initiative and Referendum Task Force? Most interested parties think initiative and referendum is good…
I love a good debate with Senator Jim Bolin. But I can’t fight him on Senate Bill 85, his effort to provide parents and students with…
Add to the Legislature’s attack on people power the freshly filed Senate Joint Resolution 2, a measure that would make it harder for us voters to…
Rep. Don Haggar and Senator-Elect Jim Bolin repeat for that Sioux Falls paper the threat they made to AP back in November: they want to kill initiative…