Unlike some blogs, I only run press releases if they are news. Former State Fire Chief Joe Lowe is announcing that he's running for Governor. As a Democrat. Yup, that's news. Here's Candidate Lowe's announcement: Former State of South Dakota…
Posts published in November 2013
David Montgomery posts Richard Benda's death certificate online. I note three details of interest: The date filed is November 22, 2013, a full month after Benda's body was discovered. It took Charles Mix County deputy coroner Chad Peters one month…
Like Madville Times readers and Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers, the Mitchell Daily Republic is not satisfied with Attorney General Marty Jackley's conclusions that Richard Benda killed himself and that Benda's double-billed travel reimbursements and a diversion of $550,000 from…
The South Dakota Legislature convenes briefly Tuesday to hear Governor Dennis Daugaard deliver his budget address. It will be the first chance our elected officials have the chance to gather and look the Governor in the eye since Richard Benda's…
That went well. South Dakota ranchers protested earlier this month when Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade organizers assigned Joan Jett to South Dakota's parade float. We can't have some vegan PETA activist standing next to our fake rolling replica of Mount…
The South Dakota Democratic Party has called for a special prosecutor to investigate "the $550,000 theft of taxpayer funds by Northern Beef Packers and SDRC, Inc." The SDDP, like me, wonders why Attorney General Marty Jackley is declining to take…
Republican candidate for Senate Marion Michael Rounds skipped a public forum in Fort Pierre last week. The South Dakota Indian Business Alliance invited all U.S. Senate candidates to speak at its fall policy meeting. Democrat Rick Weiland had the temerity…
What's it going to take to get Dakota War College to talk about the EB-5 visa scandal? I've shown how the chair of the South Dakota Democratic Party was instrumental in approving the doomed EB-5 investment black hole Northern Beef…