We now get our first overlap between referendum and initiative petitioning. With the Attorney General’s (not the Surgeon General’s?) legally required explanation in hand, New Approach…
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We’re entering the final thrilling weeks of our referendum push! I’m walking around Aberdeen (and friends and allies are working Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and elsewhere) with…
The Pennington County Democrats are hosting a public information session on the referendum drives against Senate Bill 69 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and Senate Bill 177…
Two proposed ballot initiatives have cleared another hurdle to petition circulation. On Wednesday, Attorney General Marty Jackley published his explanations of the initiatives proposed by Bob Newland…
Want a double dose of democracy? Aberdeen’s League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Commerce are hosting a candidate forum this Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m. at…
Shannon County officially becomes Oglala Lakota County on Friday, although the county’s official website has already put “Oglala Lakota” in its header. This name change poses…
Friends, readers, citizens, lend me your signatures! I have two events where you registered voters can come sign the petitions I’ve taken out to refer the Legislature’s incumbency…
In other referendum news, our hardy team of petition circulators in Sioux Falls just added some star power. The dean of Sioux Falls talk radio and erstwhile two-term…
The petition drives to refer Senate Bill 177 (the youth minimum wage) and Senate Bill 69 (the “incumbency protection plan,” as one circulator calls it) are charging…
Dang. As a petitioner and avid defender of the First Amendment, I want to go to war on the United States Postal Service for kicking…