Secretary of State Shantel Krebs called me a few minutes ago to inform me that Senate Bill 69 will now be known as Referred Law 19. Yes, that…
Tag: petitions
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs received two referendum petitions this morning at the State Capitol. On behalf of thousands of South Dakotans, I submitted petitions to…
Referendum petitions are due Monday after next, June 29. We’ll be busy counting and organizing our petitions next weekend, so this weekend is the last big weekend for…
Attorney General Marty Jackley is working to beat back the misinformation coming from diehard excusers of convicted felon Annette Bosworth. Saturday he told this blog that the state attempted to negotiate plea…
The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a lower court’s refusal to place accused petition fraudster Clayton G. Walker on the 2014 Senate ballot in South Dakota. The Eighth…
Point of journalist’s privilege: Pat Powers responds to Floridian political adventurist Peter Waldron’s formal request that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs investigate Rep. Steve Hickey’s alleged 2012 petition perjury by properly…
Bring out the long knives! Armed with the Annette Bosworth felony precedent, petition signers are accusing Rep. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) of committing the same crime in 2012…
Twelve citizens found Annette Bosworth guilty of twelve felony charges last night. Those twelve jurors had no political agenda, no personal stake in the outcome. They would have…
Nobody likes Senate Bill 69, the Incumbent Protection Plan. Democrats oppose it. Republicans of widely varied stripes oppose it. Independents oppose it. Rapid City’s Kim Wright,…
An Aberdeen veteran petitioning to refer the Legislature’s expanded definition of “veteran” to a public vote were expelled from Wylie Park by the city parks supervisor Saturday.…