Sioux Falls restaurateur and known liberal Steve Hildebrand got to serve Governor Dennis Daugaard on Friday. As a tip, the Governor left a signal that if the Legislature wants to kill the minimum-wage increase we voters passed Tuesday, that would…
Posts published in November 2014
Libertarian Kurt Evans got 20.05% of the vote Tuesday against incumbent State Auditor Steve Barnett (who, among possible successors to Governor Dennis Daugaard in 2018, was the second-most popular Republican on the ballot, behind only Marty Jackley). If Evans had…
Bob Mercer agrees that the EB-5 scandal is far from over. Next Thursday the Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee meets to discuss what went wrong in then-Governor, now Senator-Elect Mike Rounds's EB-5 visa investment program. GOAC chairman Senator Larry…
I said Wednesday that Democrat Corinna Robinson failed to mount a credible campaign for U.S. House. I note that she failed to assemble a durable campaign team, raise enough money to be taken seriously, and provide useful synergy to other…
Here comes Shantel Krebs proving she's no conservative. Fresh off her victory in Tuesday's election for Secretary of State, the outgoing Sioux Falls legislator is promising all sorts of new laws (pause right there: that's the definition of liberal, right?)…
GOP spin doctor Pat Powers cobbles together an argument that South Dakota Democrats are still too liberal to win elections. He doesn't say one word about the actual ideological positions of any Democrat on the 2014 ballot; he just repeats…