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Senator Rave Forgets His Audience: Voters Should Hear Lobbyists, Too

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…

Rave: Legislature Not Good at Investigating

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…

Varilek Defends SNAP; Food Stamps Moral, Watchful of Waste

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…

SD Dems Raise More Per Voter Than SD GOP

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…

SDGOP Chair Gripes Dems Put Politics over Policy, Ignores Numbers

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…

Obama Bags Bin Laden; Life Goes on in South Dakota

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…

Tim Still Raving about SHS SDSU Job; Change Subject Much?

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…