Libertarian Kurt Evans got 20.05% of the vote Tuesday against incumbent State Auditor Steve Barnett (who, among possible successors to Governor Dennis Daugaard in 2018, was the second-most popular Republican on the ballot, behind only Marty Jackley). If Evans had…
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Keep your new day job, Shantel. If South Dakota's election results have any bearing on the hotly anticipated 2018 gubernatorial contest, Marty's got you beat by over 30%. Now that Minnehaha County Auditor Bob Litz is finally done wiping the…
Libertarians and schadenfreudists gloated in August about fielding six candidates for statewide office compared to the Democrats' three. Let us catch up with those six Libertarians and their march toward zero. The Libertarians' nominee for Public Utilities Commissioner, Ryan Gaddy,…
Blog compatriot Ken Santema is running for State Treasurer as a Libertarian. I could in good conscience vote for Santema. He knows his numbers, and his current effort to produce the most reasonable and original conservative reporting in the state…
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned a Brookings correspondent's report that Chad Haber and Annette Bosworth had lured students to a campaign event with an ad in the SDSU Collegian promoting marijuana legalization. The comment section lit up with a…
I see South Dakotans Against Prohibition plan to disrupt the South Dakota State Fair with a protest parade in favor of medical marijuana and industrial hemp. Organizer Cody Gardner of Huron says he has 150 protesters ready to march and…
South Dakota Libertarian Party Executive Committee member Bob Newland may have just cut the number of Libertarians on the South Dakota ballot by one third. Amidst a Facebook discussion of the "huge success" of the SDLP convention last Saturday, I…
O.K., I've had enough. There's some crowing going around about the South Dakota Libertarian Party's "huge success" in recruiting candidates at its convention last Saturday. The Libertarians found warm bodies for six of the seven statewide slots filled directly by…