Part-time Governor Kristi Noem told the Sioux Falls Rotary Club today that “those documents 100% prove” that her daughter Kassidy Peters got “no special treatment”…
Tag: openness
On Thursday, Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch blamed his lackadaisical prosecution of the Ravnsborg impeachment investigation on the media, saying that journalists’ lawsuits to…
Press Files Second Lawsuit to Get Names of Legislators Who Called for Special Session on Impeachment
At the end of October, the South Dakota Supreme Court said Speaker Spencer Gosch didn’t have to make public the names of the Representatives who called…
The South Dakota Supreme Court leaves us wondering about the legitimacy of the upcoming Special Session to impeach Jason Ravnsborg. Yesterday the high Court shot…
Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack says, “There’s a substantial amount of misinformation out there” concerning his January 18, 2020, arrest in Meade County for driving…
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…
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…