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…
Posts tagged as “EB-5”
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…
This morning's review of Dakota War College finds Pat Powers wallowing in blogospherical inferiority and hypocrisy again. Powers finds it useful to mock that Sioux Falls paper for not making a headline out of where Sioux Falls police found a…
David Newquist never makes for a cheerful read. But his blog posts make essential reading for anyone joining the Resistance to South Dakota's corrupt one-party rule. In his latest post, Newquist connects 9/11, Nazis, and the perversion of education into…
Last Friday, at the behest of lawyer Jeff Sveen, the Mitchell Daily Republic retracted a single statement that it printed four weeks ago asserting that Sveen was a "partner" of EB-5 czar Joop Bollen. Sveen has worked as Bollen's lawyer,…
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…
Four weeks ago, Denise Ross posted a stunning article in the Mitchell Daily Republic that put then-Governor Mike Rounds in the room in 2009 with key players in the EB-5/Northern Beef Packers/Epoch Star financing scheme. That statement called into question…
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…