As I listen to the audio of today's marathon Senate State Affairs Committee hearing, I hear Chairman Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic) open discussion of the big transportation bill with this injunction: Every member of this committee is well aware of the…
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The truest statement of the day comes from Sen. Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic), discussing calls from his colleagues Rep. Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) and Sen. Larry Lucas (D-26/Pickstown) to bring Mike Rounds, Dennis Daugaard, Joop Bollen, and Jeff Sveen in for questioning…
Senate Bill 233, the Critical Teaching Needs Scholarship Program, comes up for its first hearing this morning before Senate Education. If you followed South Dakota education policy last year, SB 233 should sound familiar: Last fall, voters overwhelming rejected comprehensive…
SDGOP chair Tim Rave has a hyperactive spin cycle. Rather than debating the merits of the farm bill and explaining his gal Rep. Kristi Noem's support for all the corporate welfare therein, he tries to make you think that Democratic…
The increasingly childish and still shyly pseudonymous Dakota War College touts an announcement from South Dakota Republican Party Chairman Tim Rave that the SDGOP is in better financial shape than the South Dakota Democratic Party... ...to which news every South…
Pot-kettle-black! If Secretary Gant certifies the HB 1230 referral petitions he received yesterday, we'll have plenty of time to duke it out on this issue during the 2012 general election. But South Dakota Republican chairman Tim Rave, who voted for…
President Obama, Navy Seals, and U.S. spies have killed Osama bin Laden. They have also killed every other news story for at least a couple days. So amidst the jubilation—and let's think about this a moment: when we have killed…
You'd think with supermajorities in the State Legislature, a lock on the governor's office, and two of three seats in our Congressional delegation, the South Dakota Republican Party wouldn't feel the need to manufacture bogus issues around a campaign they…