Sorry, folks! No referendum. I sought to suspend and refer to the 2020 ballot House Bill 1094, the odious, volunteer-killing, and likely unconstitutional requirement that…
Tag: petitions
Pat Powers loves to post commentary from Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls when he thinks it will sow disunity and disillusion among Democrats. I suspect Pat Powers…
Come July 1, thanks to the first law signed oh-so-runway-swaggeringly by Governor Kristi Noem, insecure South Dakotans will be able to strut about town with…
Public radio is in for it today: Lori Walsh has invited me to talk about the People Power Petition Drive on In the Moment on South…
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this. After a less-than-successful home-based petition drive in 2017, Spearfish ballot question sponsor John Dale has taken…
That Sioux Falls paper does some work to fulfill the media’s civic duty to inform voters about ballot measures by running a front-page story (plus two…
Hey, petitioners! Don’t forget why we fight: Beautiful weekend coming up: great time to get out to the festivals and barbecues, talk to your neighbors…
South Dakota Democratic Party Chair Paula Hawks supports SD Voice’s petition to refer House Bill 1094, Rep. Jon Hansen’s volunteer-deterrent circulator registry and badge requirements.…
My friends at the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry have sent out a preview of circulating and pending ballot measures to their members…
I offer my readers the following profound legal question about the absurd complications our Legislature is using to make citizen petitions unworkable: My petition circulators…