Predictably, do-nothing Representative Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) failed to push Senator Sue Peterson’s (R-13/Sioux Falls) Senate Bill 223 through the House Thursday. While I am pleased…
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The Board of Elections showed its usefulness last November in shooting down one of Secretary of State Monae Johnson’s worse ideas: replacing nominating petitions with…
Yesterday was a noteworthy day in initiative trivia (initiatrivia?) in that it was not noteworthy. Speaker Jon Hansen and his fellow South Dakota Republicans, who…
Senator Sue Peterson (R-13/Sioux Falls) is acting funny. Even though she’s a Republican, she has put forward two bills that would encourage more democratic participation…
By a narrow 7–5 vote, House State Affairs yesterday approved an amended House Bill 1095, making Representative Rebecca Reimer’s (R-26BChamberlain) proposal to reduce candidates’ time…
Proving that January is a rotten month for circulating petitions, the drive to refer rezoning for a data center in Sioux Falls to a public…
The House saved South Dakota from another costly courtroom defeat yesterday, voting 28–38 to kill House Bill 1087, Rep. Travis Ismay’s (R-28B/Vale) patently unconstitutional proposal…
Representative Rebecca Reimer (R-26B/Chamberlain) is out to rob candidates of two to three weeks of petition circulation time. Right now, party candidates for most partisan…
The Republican war on initiative and referendum kicks off this Session with House Bill 1087, in which rookie Representative Travis Ismay (R-28B/Vale) invites yet another…
RV Voters Purged? Petitioners working to refer zoning for a data center to a public vote in Sioux Falls learned this week that they need…