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Turbiville, Romkema Reject Liss’s Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill; Nelson Hedges

By caheidelberger on 2012.01.29

Senator Tom Nelson (R-31/Lead) is a co-sponsor of HB 1261, recklessly radical Rep. Brian Liss's (R-13/Sioux Falls) attempt to pretend he's Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and get some Koch Brothers' money. Yesterday's District 31 crackerbarrel in Spearfish happened before Nelson's colleague Senator Stan Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) came to his senses and remembered that public employees have a right to collective bargaining.

Senator Nelson avoided the well-deserved boos Rep. Liss got in Sioux Falls by dancing around the issue, saying his sponsoring a bill doesn't mean he'll vote for it, that it's a discussion worth having...

...yadda yadda yadda. Get with the program, Senator Nelson. Reps. Turbiville and Romkema just say no, they won't support HB 1261. It's a bad idea, another effort by the misguided Rep. Liss to play Tea Party hack in Pierre.

Published in South Dakota

caheidelberger

13 Comments

  1. larry kurtz 2012.01.29

    Since i have nothing nice to say i've chosen to say nothing. Contrast the wishlist for the SD legislature with one for Minnesota's.

  2. Owen Reitzel 2012.01.29

    I heard Liss last night on the news blastiung unions. this guy doesn't have a clue and "radical" is too nice a word.

  3. Bill Fleming 2012.01.29

    Is this Liss's first time in office?

  4. BW Schwartz 2012.01.29

    Maybe they should observe and learn from the backlash that Walker's union busting has brought down on himself including a recall campaign that gathered more than a million signatures...almost as many votes as he received to get elected.

    And when done looking at Walker maybe they can look at Ohio Governor John Kasich whose public union busting measure was quickly and soundly overturned by voters and along the way made him one of the most unpopular Governors with his constituents (53% disapproval) in the country.

  5. caheidelberger Post author | 2012.01.29

    Yes, Bill F., Liss was a 2010 Tea Party winner. And BW, good point! Let's take our country back!

  6. Jana 2012.01.29

    For what it's worth, it seems that the Republicans see employees as mere commodities to be bought as cheaply as possible. Of course, we'll tout our people as our best asset...seems kind of a funny way to treat your assets.

    It also hits me as a little strange that the party that throws around platitudes like "freedom" "rights" and "liberty" wants to deny those very words to those workers that choose to organize.

  7. Steve Sibson 2012.01.29

    Great, more anti-conservative bigotry coming from the Marxist left. As if conservatives are not getting enough bigotry from the SDGOP Establishment nowadays. When are you people going to learn that the best way to obtain worker's rights is to provided more employment options via a competitive free-market system, not to be confused with the SDGOP fascist Big Goverment/Big Business monopoly capitalism.

  8. Owen Reitzel 2012.01.29

    So Steve. You're saying the police and fireman should work for minimum wage with no benefits? I wonder what kind of people they would attract?
    The only good thing for Liss is that policemen and firemen are professional and if either one was needed at his house they would still come to help-even it it was him.

  9. Bill Fleming 2012.01.29

    Owen, right. In fact, they might already BE at his house... picketing.

  10. Brett Hoffman 2012.01.29

    Sponsoring or co-sponsoring a bill doesn't mean he'll vote for it? That seems like a very strange assertion.

  11. Roger Elgersma 2012.01.30

    Liss told me in the campaign that the reason the wages are so low in South Dakota is because we have little transportation. So why does he not try to get us interstate hiways like everyone else has and locate us in the middle of the country so we do not have to ship so far.

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