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Posts tagged as “Mitch Fargen”

More Brain Drain: Fargen Heads for California

The brain drain continues: former District 8 Representative Mitch Fargen leaving South Dakota. After years of able service to both the South Dakota Farmers Union and the Democratic Party, love and California call his youth and talent away: Now it’s…

Toft vs. Haggar-Squared! Fargen to the Falls!

Oh, the excitement! New candidates are racing to get their petitions in (Charlie, get 'em right!). Secretary Gant announces a political head-to-head that I would pay money to watch: Carmen Toft of Sioux Falls has filed to run as a…

Fargen Makes Way for Parsley and Lindsay in District 8 House

District 8 is the first and so far only two-seat legislative district with Democratic candidates for both seats. Scott Parsley and Roy Lindsay are ready to take on right-wing Santorum booster Leslie Heinemann from Flandreau. One Flandreau man Parsley and…

Who Gets Kolbeck’s Seat? Daugaard’s PUC Options

The peanut gallery offers numerous nutty suggestions for the seat Commissioner Steve Kolbeck is abdicating on the Public Utilities Commission June 17. Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard gets to pick a replacement for the only Democrat in statewide elected office (besides…

SB 158: Stricherz, Fargen Stand for Environment over Uranium Mining

Representative Patricia Stricherz (R-8/Madison) broke with the Chamber of Commerce leadership of her party and voted against SB 158 yesterday. This bill is a favor for Powertech, a company that wants to mine uranium in the southern Black Hills. SB…

District 8 Delegation Draw Committee Assignments

While I wait for the really juicy bills to pop into the hopper in Pierre, I note with mild interest that our own freshwoman State Representative Patricia Stricherz (R-8/Winfred) has been assigned to two committees: Education and Health and Human…