South Dakota Democratic Party chairman Ben Nesselhuf vows that we Democrats have nothing to do with the series of robocalls and other attacks that anonymous entities have been launching against the South Dakota Republican Party's Legislative leadership for the past…
Posts tagged as “Charlie Johnson”
District 8 Senate candidate Charlie Johnson is a good guy (not to mention a brave Madville Times sponsor!). The South Dakota Educators Political Action Committee, affiliated with SDEA, are good folks, too. But might Charlie be too good a guy?…
Lots of my Democrat friends are knocking the Governor's celebration of not just balancing the state budget (again, as we always do, by law) but running a $47.8-million surplus. House Minority Leader Bernie Hunhoff notes that the "achievement" of piling…
Young Madison journalist Becky Froelich helps write up Charlie and Allen Johnson's longstanding organic farm operation down in Orland township— —edit: Make that Charlie, Allen, and Aaron Johnson. According to Froelich, Aaron was toiling away selling seed and ag products…
Recall that the Lake County Auditor's office almost torpedoed Charlie Johnson's bid for District 8 Senate by writing "Lake County" instead of "District 8" in the "We, the undersigned qualified voters of" blank on his nominating petition. Fortunately, Judge Barnett…
Whoo-hoo! Really, I said that. I read the news that Judge Mark Barnett ruled that Secretary of State Jason Gant incorrectly rejected* Lake County organic farmer Charlie Johnson's District 8 Senate nominating petitions, and I said, "Whoo-hoo!" News doesn't do…
We can't sue the Porcupine Post Office for closing before 5 p.m., but we can take Secretary Gant to court! The Rapid City Journal reports that the South Dakota Democratic Party is challenging Secretary of State Jason Gant's rejection of…
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh! When it comes to running for Senate, I guess we District 8 Dems are cursed. In 2010, we didn't get our Senate candidate, Clark Schmidtke, on the Dem ballot because we sent the petitions to Pierre by certified mail…