Out of 66 counties where candidates filed to run for sheriff this year, 39 had just one candidate for the job. Two counties—Todd and Hand—had…
Tag: open primary
The top-two open-primary amendment sponsored by Joe Kirby and De Knudson will not be on the November ballot. Secretary of State Shantel Krebs yesterday rejected…
The glut of bills in the hopper include some measures closely connected to initiated measures that have either made the ballot or may still make…
Still no word from Pierre on which if any of the eight initiative petitions submitted this fall have enough signatures to make our 2018 ballot.…
Neal Gabler writes that the most successful lie that chronically myth-making Republicans have foisted upon us is that liberals are unwelcome deviants from America’s conservative…
De Knudson came to Aberdeen today to see some old friends and collect signatures for the Open Primaries South Dakota initiative petition. Amidst that business,…
Aberdeen joins the fall celebrations of sport this weekend with both high school and university homecomings. I’ll participate tangentially in the jockocratic jubilation—and you can…
Joe Kirby, De Knudson, Chuck Parkinson, and friends are finally circulating their initiative petition to create open primaries in South Dakota. They got the Attorney…
KELO Radio’s Mark Russo misreads Joe Kirby’s open primaries amendment and the newly released Attorney General’s explanation. Russo mistakes the Kirby amendment for last year’s…
Joe Kirby tells me that Open Primaries South Dakota has submitted a revised draft of its open-primary amendment to the Attorney General. The text submitted yesterday…