Various observers have raised concerns that South Dakota's use of the EB-5 visa investment program may have opened our doors to Chinese spies and mafia. Now, two years after Iowa Senator Charles Grassley started beating the drum about the possible…
Tuesday's debate in the House Health and Human Service Committee over House Bill 1058 suggests that some South Dakota lawmakers spend more time listening to the uninformed paranoia of constituent e-mails than (a) reading what the bills before them actually…
Boy, if the Mugwumps are concerned about letting the Department of Health give them orders, wait until they see the Department of Revenue's plan to grab their paychecks and bank accounts. Senate Bill 59 is the Department of Revenue's proposal…
The South Dakota Banking Commission has yet to take any public action on Brown County's request that it investigate EB-5 czar Joop Bollen's SDRC Inc. for possible evasion of bank franchise tax. Director of Banking Bret Afdahl sent SDRC Inc.…
Senator Larry Tidemann, Chair Senator Phyllis Heineman Senator Jean Hunhoff Senator Blake Curd Senator Larry Lucas Representative Dan Dryden, Vice Chair Representative Melissa Magstadt Representative Justin Cronin Representative Mark Mickelson Representative Susan Wismer These ten South Dakota legislators, the current…
Pat Powers notices that Mike Rounds got campaign money from TURPAC, the National Turkey Federation PAC. $5,000, according to Open Secrets, the fourth-highest amount TURPAC gave to any of its favored seventeen Senate candidates. Rep. Kristi Noem got $2,500 in…
Now that the election is over and South Dakota Republicans have held their noses and pushed their flabby candidate into the U.S. Senate, can Republicans finally speak some truth about the EB-5 visa investment program? Attorney General Marty Jackley acknowledges…
Republicans trying to deflect criticism of Senator-Elect Mike Rounds for his scandalous EB-5 visa investment program have often brought up an analogy to President Obama and the Solyndra affair. But it turns out the Department of Energy's loan program created…
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