Campaign finance reports are in for South Dakota’s serious gubernatorial candidates: Candidate Balance 1/1/2017 Raised Spent Cash on Hand 12/31/2017 Kristi Noem $1,807,135.40 $900,751.97 $566,192.56…
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Every candidate for Governor, Democrat and Republican, appears to support Amendment W, the effort to undo the Republican repeal of IM 22 and restore the…
Legislature Quickly Fixes Corporate-Donor-Reporting Loophole; “Entities” Give 2.2% of Sutton’s Money
Nicely done, Legislature! Yesterday the Senate cast the final unanimous vote for House Bill 1003, which corrects the Legislature’s omission of businesses and unions (“entities”,…
A year and a day ago, Senator John Thune, Senator Mike Rounds, and Representative Kristi Noem all said they looked forward to working with the…
Score one for the South Dakota Democratic Party. Their attack on Marty Jackley’s touring the state to campaign on office time may have fallen flat…
Seth Tupper does the homework on the Jackley travel budget question and finds the Democrats and Kristi Noem are probably wrong to imply that Marty…
Kristi Noem is campaigning like a Democrat. You’ll recall that on Sunday, I reported on the record-high travel expenses the Attorney General’s office incurred in…
My report of the amount of federal estate tax Kristi Noem’s family had to pay after inheriting her father’s assets in 1994 may be off…
The SDGOP spin blog says Kristi Noem’s fundraising e-mail blast to supporters “sets the record straight on false attacks on her family.” Yet her political…
Christopher Vondracek of Courthouse News Service reviews the documents surrounding the much-mythologized settlement of the estate of Rep. Kristi Noem’s father and comes to the same…