Another petition is street-ready! Doug Kronaizl announces on Represent South Dakota’s Facebook page that Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has approved his group’s South Dakota…
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Amendment S, the crime victims bill of rights, may be unconstitutional… in Montana. The ACLU, counties, lawyers, and even a victims’ rights advocate are suing…
Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) wants us voters to decide whether to raise our wholesale tobacco tax to reduce tuition at our regionally uncompetitive…
Joe Kirby tells me that Open Primaries South Dakota has submitted a revised draft of its open-primary amendment to the Attorney General. The text submitted yesterday…
Here’s a twist: Roxanne Weber and Nicholas Rasmussen of South Dakota Voter Protection did not submit one draft of an initiated constitutional amendment to protect the…
A second initiated amendment is afoot! A new website, SDVoterProtection.info, which appears to have been published just yesterday, says that Roxanne Weber of Pierre and…
Yesterday Represent South Dakota submitted a constitutional amendment to the Legislative Research Council for review. Here’s the full text of that amendment for our review.…
Represent South Dakota wasn’t able to stop the Legislature from repealing Initiated Measure 22, the anti-corruption measure voters passed last November. Thus, they are proposing a constitutional…
…and other historical notes! Senate Joint Resolution 2, Senator Jim Bolin’s proposal to make it harder for us to amend our state constitution, survived a bumpy…
When House Bill 1141 hit the hopper, I complained that prime sponsor Representative David Lust was picking too many insiders who view ballot measure as…