On Wednesday, I challenged Lisa Furlong’s (or should we just call it Rod Aycox’s now, since his Georgia-based company provided all of the $1.7 million necessary to…
Tag: petitions
The good news: Secretary of State Shantel Krebs continues to validate petitions right on the schedule I calculated on Christmas Eve and updated last week. The bad…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has certified the first of eight initiative petitions submitted at the beginning of November. Yesterday Secretary Krebs said Jason Glodt’s petition for the so-called…
Main Street Square is a wonderful addition to downtown Rapid City. Alas, the non-profit that manages Main Street Square doesn’t like the First Amendment. Seth Tupper reports…
I ask to sign a petition, and this petition circulator not only refuses to let me sign but threatens to call the cops. Here’s my encounter with…
Chad Peterson e-mails from Vermillion to report a suspicious petition circulator on the University of South Dakota campus. Peterson says he encountered the circulator yesterday in…
Let me try to keep my editorializing to a minimum and simply show you what I saw around town this morning. On my way out…
Three petitioners carrying the fake 18% rate cap petition were ejected from the Brown County Fairgrounds today for petitioning without permission of the NESD Celtic Faire and Games, the…
On Thursday, Angela Kennecke sought some legal perspective from Attorney General Marty Jackley on the allegedly illegal tactics of out-of-state petition circulators. A.G. Jackley was somewhat…
Let’s focus on one element of Deputy Secretary of State Kea Warne’s advisory e-mail to petition circulators, the law requiring petition circulators to witness each signature they…