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…
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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…
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…