Adam St. Paul invited me onto the radio yesterday to talk about my run for District 3 Senate. Our 12-minute conversation is available online at…
Tag: referendum
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…
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 have been asked by more than one friend if we should refer House Bills 1177 and 1196 to a public vote. My tentative answer…
More blogging on the radio! KSOO’s Patrick Lalley chose not to sing and invited me on air to talk about Legislative antipathy toward ballot measures…
In more good news for ballot question fans, House Bill 1005 passed the Senate yesterday. HB 1005 passed in much better form than it appeared in…
However the Republicans’ three initiative-wrecking amendments fare in House State Affairs this morning, a bunch of democracy defenders will hold a press conference in Sioux…
Patrick Lalley keeps letting me come on his radio program. Today on KSOO, we talked about initiative, referendum, and our overreaching Legislature. Here’s today’s Patrick…
LRC finally posted the House State Affairs amendment to HB 1275, and I can report with some relief that, in addition to lowering the number…
Frerichs Says Respect the Voters, Leave Initiative and Referendum Alone! At the end of yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel, my neighbor and local orchestra teacher Joe Berns…