...or, as Lee Schoenbeck will remind us, dog bites man... Illegitimate U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth and campaign disastermind Chad Haber appear to have broken another law in circulating Bosworth's nominating petition. Here's the story an eyewitness tells me: On…
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Speaker Brian Gosch's effort to make Stephanie Strong pay his lawyer bills gets a hearing on March 22. Strong sued last year to get Gosch off the ballot for violating notary law by notarizing his own nominating petitions. Alas, she…
So far, everyone in the South Dakota House but yahooligans and Ron-Paulite gold backers Reps. Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) and Elizabeth May (R-27/Kyle) agrees that the Gosch clause in House Bill 1018 is a good idea. That's the election reform statute…
Rep. Brian Gosch will likely become Speaker of the South Dakota House today. I remain convinced that he gained his office illegally by notarizing his own nominating petitions last winter. Former Secretary of State Chris Nelson agreed last summer that…
I don't like to argue with the judge, especially not in a case filed too late by a gal who just can't win. Judge Kathleen Trandahl has put the final circuit court kabosh on Stephanie Strong's effort to hold Rep.…
Stephanie Strong had to screw up somewhere. Her lawsuit to get Secretary of State Jason Gant to throw Rep. Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) off the November ballot for violation of notary law has a solid statutory argument behind it (not…
Stephanie Strong speaks... and she gets a judge to compel Secretary of State Jason Gant to do so too... in court. Recall that Stephanie Strong made a brief news splash when she announced she would run against Rep. Kristi Noem…
Secretary of State Jason Gant plans to take no action on the illegally self-notarized petitions of aspiring House Speaker Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) or House candidate David Mitchell (D-20/Mitchell). Instead, he says he will ask the Legislature, including whichever of…