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…
Tag: state legislature
Last week, Representative Susan Wismer and the rest of the Democratic caucus voted Aye on House Bill 1320, the 4.69-billion-dollar Fiscal Year 2019 budget. Rep. Wismer, a…
The Fulton Fulminator versus the Freeman Farmer: Freeman Democrat Ardon Wek filed his petition Friday to challenge Senator Stace Nelson for the District 19 Senate…
On Wednesday on the Senate floor, Senator Stace Nelson spoke passionately against Senate Bill 125, the measure that, as Nelson accurately put it yesterday on…
One-party corruption is so bad in South Dakota that even honest Republicans can’t investigate it. Reps. Dan Kaiser and Elizabeth May tried to get the…
The Legislature voted Thursday to raise taxes to fund K-12 education. But our wily legislators are shifting the blame for any higher taxes to local…
The Joint Legislative Procedure Committee approved yesterday a full 40-day calendar for the 2019 Session: This calendar has some logic to it: Nine weeks have…
Update 11:02 CST: In my original post, I erroneously accused the Legislature of failing to fix House Bill 1286 and South Dakota’s unconstitutional ballot access laws.…
…Would Trump Survive This Rule? In other action today, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee amended its “Professional Conduct and Civility” rule (Joint Rule 1B-3) to…
…Upon One-Fifths Request! The Legislature appears to be adopting a rule to rein in hoghouse amendments. On Tuesday, the Joint Legislative Procedure Committee voted 13–1…