While everybody had their eye on Kristi Noem’s unconstitutional effort in the South Dakota Supreme Court to take away our constitutional right to write our…
Tag: petitions
The hospital lobby has finally filed its final Medicaid expansion initiative petition for circulation. The Secretary of State stamped the petition approved on March 25,…
Hospital Lobby May Launch Medicaid Expansion Petition in April; Competing Petitions Expect Coalition
In the undercard to PBS NewsHour’s report on the effort to reverse South Dakota’s resistance to Medicaid expansion, Dan Bush suggests the hospital lobby may launch…
Senator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) promised a clean-up amendment to improve his devious Senate Bill 77, which will crush citizen initiatives by forcing petitioners to use…
In my conversation with Amy Scott-Stoltz Sunday about how to circulate ballot question petitions, I emphasized that volunteer circulators do not have to register with the…
Amy Scott-Stoltz, president of the League of Women Voters, interviewed me last night to put together a helpful video for all South Dakotans who would…
Maybe this event was in the works before Pam Cole’s job change, but the former Democratic Party exec may be out earning her money as…
Senate Bill 77, the 14-point-font rule designed to crush initiative petitions, isn’t on its way to the Governor’s desk yet. The bill just needed concurrence…
House Local Government pushed forward the Republican war on ballot measures Thursday. The committee’s Republicans happily passed Senate Bill 77, Senator Al Novstrup’s petition-crushing requirement…
…And We Still Need a Ruling on Petition Deadlines! This news will be no comfort to the family of Joe Boever and all South Dakotans…