We start the Legislative week with twelve important bills to watch—important because, right now, they are meaningless: SB 104: “to protect certain easement holders and rural…
Tag: Stace Nelson
In trivia from yesterday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel… Senator Brock Greenfield (R-2/Clark) compared his anti-refugee bill to his mom’s anti-nuclear waste bill, saying both are simply measures to…
Governor Dennis Daugaard signed House Bill 1069 yesterday, thus making the “emergency” repeal of Initiated Measure 22, the Anti-Corruption Act, the first enacted bill of the 2017…
Bob Mercer is feeling better. His first back-on-the-attack Capitol Journal will make legislators feel worse: The Wollmann episode stirred the dust about past incidents involving…
Senator Stace Nelson is totally right to expose and prosecute the corruption among his party leadership. Senator Nelson is totally wrong to offer Senate Bill 89,…
Senator Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) is reintroducing the “no sex with interns” rule that the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee and the full Senate rejected two weeks ago.…
Senate State Affairs kept the “Repeal the Will of the Voters!” train rolling today, voting 7–2 (Republicans, including my District 3 Senator Al Novstrup, all aye, Democrats…
The House Select Committee formed to discipline former legislator Mathew Wollmann for having sex with interns met for 23 minutes today. Since Wollmann spared them most of…
Who knew what when? House Majority Leader Lee Qualm says he called for an investigation of fellow Republican Representative Mathew Wollmann’s sexual misconduct after Wollmann…
Al Novstrup talks a lot about how working in the Legislature is all about relationships. Maybe that’s why he keeps voting against banning sex between legislators and…