On my front step this morning: We’ll honor you voters, say our Republican legislators, after overturning a law we voted on and approved less than three…
Tag: referendum
The Legislature waged half-war on the popular democracy yesterday, repealing Initiated Measure 22 but withdrawing a bill that would have put the process of amending the constitution out of reach…
Plus Bonus Advice for Machiavellian Republicans! Supporters of IM22 and direct democracy, your calls and letters to your legislators may be working. After three days of…
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…
What?! I’ve got to argue against Venhuizen? O.K. fine…. As President Trump declared his Presidency is about giving power back to the people, South Dakota’s Republican Legislature moved…
The South Dakota Republican Party begins this year’s attack on the people’s right to legislate at the ballot with Senate Bill 59, which includes two key provisions:…
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 best thing I heard Rick Weiland say at yesterday’s Brown County Democratic Forum is that his ballot measure organization, TakeItBack.org, is ready to refer…
Rep. Don Haggar and Senator-Elect Jim Bolin repeat for that Sioux Falls paper the threat they made to AP back in November: they want to kill initiative…
The Lincoln County Commission holds a public hearing on two proposed wind tower ordinances on Tuesday, December 27. The setbacks ordinance would increase the required minimum distance between…