Speaker G. Mark Mickelson and I get to occupy the same inches in the that Sioux Falls paper. As you would expect, our comments to…
Tag: petitions
Speaking of petitions, Terry LaFleur failed to make the Republican gubernatorial ballot. He thought 2,034 signatures would be enough. But the statutory threshold for statewide…
Marty Jackley broke the petition-sampling table, so Shantel Krebs had to order a new one! Last Monday, our aspiringly gubernatorial Attorney General submitted his nominating…
The Legislature passed nine new laws this year that weaken our right to vote on laws and constitutional amendments. We will have two chances in…
South Dakota, the state that first enacted initiative and referendum, may be about to kill it. People keep asking me whether we should refer any…
I filed two candidate petitions at the Secretary of State’s office in Pierre yesterday, one for Brooks Briscoe, one for myself. Secretary of State Shantel…
Speaking of running for county commission, the petition requirements in Minnehaha County demonstrate how Republicans and Democrats have rigged the system to keep independents off…
I have been asked by more than one friend if we should refer House Bills 1177 and 1196 to a public vote. My tentative answer…
Yesterday wasn’t all good for ballot measures in the Legislature. The Senate barely passed House Bill 1177, Rep. Drew Dennert’s part in the Republican push…
Today is the deadline for all Legislative committees to move bills to the House and Senate floors. Assuming a quorum made it back to Pierre…