The South Dakota Democratic Party announced last week that it has fielded candidates in 83% of South Dakota’s Legislative districts. 83% of 35 districts is…
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The backers of an initiated constitutional measure to abolish property tax and impose a retail transaction tax are lying to the public about its fiscal…
Speaking of the primary, Jon Hansen and Dusty Johnson both say they’ve submitted their nominating petitions with far more than the 2,171 signatures needed to…
We appear to be escaping this Legislative Session without any major whacks to initiative and referendum. But the Senate last week gave final approval to…
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…
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-26B/Chamberlain) 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…