Apparently failing to recognize they have the White House on their side, Senator Al Novstrup and other Trumpist legislators have filed Senate Bill 124, an effort to…
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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 (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.…
Updated 2017.02.25 18:00 CST In their rush to repeal Initiated Measure 22, “South Dakota Lawmakers Are Showing Populism Is a Lie” (so goes the Washington Post headline).…
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…
Instead of picking an experienced legislator like Scott Parsley to replace ethically deficient Mathew Wollmann, Governor Daugaard fills the District 8 House vacancy with a partisan choice,…
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…
Senate Bill 67, our democracy-fearing Legislature’s attempt to make it 88% harder for South Dakotans to amend their constitution without Legislative interference, goes before Senate…
Last spring, Rep. Lana Greenfield (R-2/Doland) blasted the Deep Borehole Field Test, saying the Governor and the president of the School of Mines were pushing to bring…
Representative Mathew Wollmann (R-8/Madison) resigned from the South Dakota House today over his admitted sexual misconduct with Legislative interns over the last two years. In another case…