Two sure signs that Speaker Spencer Gosch (R-23/Glenham) is a couple shells short of a six-shooter: he says Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck “is…
Tag: openness
On June 29, Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack (R-29/Union Center) pled a 2020 DUI charge down to careless driving and got a fine and six…
Senate President Pro-Tempore Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) made public the names of the 27 Senators who signed the letter calling for the November 9 Special Session…
Bob Mercer leads the charge for open records and gets results. He apparently has challenged Legislative leaders’ unconscionable decision to keep secret the names of…
Faced with the momentous prospect of conducting the first impeachment in South Dakota history, our Republican leaders default to their usual secrecy, treating the removal…
The Legislative Research Council’s draft Issue Memorandum on Special Sessions notes that we restrict the scope of a Special Session to ensure that the public knows…
The Legislative Research Council is withholding from the public the criminal investigation documents released to legislators considering impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. LRC director…
Kristi Noem served in the Legislature for a couple of terms before running off to Washington to play Congress. Does she really not understand how…
But am I just doing Kristi Noem’s dirty work by continuing to post and share the police interrogation videos she leaked to bury Jason Ravnsborg? South…