by Donald Pay Forty years ago a multi-national waste management company sought to bury South Dakota in the nation’s low-level radioactive waste. Governor William Janklow…
Tag: lobbyists
In a small detail from Boobgate, Mike Mueller, husband of censured Senator Julie Frye-Mueller, testified Tuesday night that he has registered as an unpaid lobbyist…
Reviewing the lobbyist registry for the 2023 Session, I find 156 individuals signed up so far to hang around the Capitol this winter persuading our…
I know lobbyists are people, too, but if you want a reason to conduct more Legislative Sessions online, check out Bob Mercer’s tweet from the…
We’ll get to see who, if anyone, shows up this morning in Senate Local Government to testify for or against Senate Bill 180, the retread…
According to Bob Mercer’s headline, municipal electric lobbyists say “Different legislators should have been chosen.” A couple hundred thousand voters across South Dakota express their…
Prior to Senate State Affairs’ summary execution of Senator Reynold Nesiba’s (D-15/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 157, a real effort to improve civic engagement by removing unfair…
Hearing Republican legislators Al Novstrup and Lana Greenfield passionately defend nepotism at Aberdeen’s February 2 crackerbarrel reminded me that I should see how Kristi Noem’s family and friends…
Can legislators shoot advertisements soliciting donations for lobbyists at the Capitol? Representative Tom Pischke (R-25/Dell Rapids) thinks so. At 1:26 in this public Facebook video,…
The first person Kristi Noem hired was a lobbyist. But South Dakotans mostly shrugged at the repeal of IM 22 in this year’s Legislative races…