In the Dogged Lack of Self-Awareness Department, Pat Powers expresses concern about a Secretary of State who might be engaging in concerted partisan activity while managing our…
Tag: Shantel Krebs
Mercer pitches, Krebs swings! Pierre political reporter Bob Mercer complained last weekend that South Dakota’s campaign finance laws gives PACs and unchallenged or inactive campaign committees too much…
The “recount” and second rejection of the medical cannabis petition raised a few legal questions about the status of that petition and the process that…
I’m not even in the Senate yet, and I already have a bill in the chute. Over the Memorial Day weekend, I noticed that a seemingly innocuous…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs announced late Friday that she has again rejected the petition filed by Melissa Mentele and New Approach South Dakota to…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has ruled against my challenge of Lisa Furlong’s fake-18%-rate-cap petition. In details she sent me this morning, Secretary Krebs says my…
Stooges of the payday lenders filed a specious challenge against Initiated Measure 21, the real 36% rate cap, on January 27. I filed a challenge…
Attorney General Marty Jackley’s appearance this morning in the initial hearing on Joop Bollen’s charges is not completely out of the blue. A.G. Jackley stayed overnight after…
Kinda surprising: Melissa Mentele’s filing of an affidavit to challenge Secretary of State Shantel Krebs’s rejection of her medical cannabis initiative petition. Really surprising: Secretary Krebs’s…
This week’s Don’t Give Up Award goes not to Rep. Fred Deutsch, who grimly promised today to spend all summer coming up with a stronger, better, faster way…