The South Dakota Legislature has finally caught up with other states and decided to offer training on “legislative ethics, professionalism, and sexual harassment.” All legislators…
Tag: R. Blake Curd
While I was out doing original reporting, the SDGOP spin blog was printing anonymous memy bunk and its sponsors‘ press releases. Boring… and, in the…
Several Sioux Falls Muslims and neighbors of other faiths attended a prayer service at the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls yesterday to protest Senate Concurrent Resolution…
Senator R. Blake Curd did something nice this week. The Republican Majority Leader had the opportunity to appoint a replacement for fellow Republican Drew Duncan on…
Who needs Saturday Night Live? The floor debate leading up to the Senate’s 27–8 vote to repeal Initiated Measure 22 with the doubly unconstitutional (multi-subject, bogus emergency clause) House…
Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) agrees with me that Senate State Affairs made a good move Friday by striking the constitutionally unworkable Section 2 from…
I get the distinct impression that Senate Majority Leader R. Blake Curd wasted time on the Senate floor Friday just to jerk his fellow Republican Senator Stace…
The headline on Dan Peters’s interview with Senator R. Blake Curd (R-12/Sioux Falls) is that the Majority Leader wants to delay the implementation date of voter-approved ballot measures…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 9–5 today to reject a rule barring legislators from having sex with pages and interns. Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) offered…
The supporters of Initiated Measure 22,the Anti-Corruption Act, are playing offense. Represent.Us points out in this fun Facebook video that two of the leading legislators who have sued…