So maybe this explains the Rhoden surge in the Madville Times primary poll? Rep. Stace Nelson loses focus in the final push for a primary upset. While his sole target should be frontrunner Mike Rounds, he slips into taking potshots…
Kyle on Friday! You betcha! Oglala Lakota College is hosting an open political forum this Friday, May 16, starting at 1 p.m. Mountain at the Piya Wiconi Campus Academic/Public Library in Kyle. According to the presser in my box, Republican…
I hear the emcees at GOP dinners around South Dakota frequently invoke the apocryphal "Reagan's 11th Commandment" to deter primary candidates from denigrating each other. So does that include doing bunny ears to your fellow Republicans? Bunny ears on Lora…
It must be a Larry thing. I've been hovering over the Federal Election Commission's website, eager to review the professed finances of South Dakota's U.S. Senate candidates. But so far, the only financials I can look at are among the…
Saturday's debate among all of the GOP Senate candidates crystallized for the challengers their primary mission: concentrate all fire on the frontrunner, Marion Michael Rounds. Spending time picking on Larry Rhoden is a waste of time (Stace!). Trying to step…
On Friday, I reported that Marion Michael Rounds had posted a video for his U.S. Senate campaign consisting of himself delivering an over-polished, inauthentic pitch backed entirely by stock photographs of non-South Dakotans. On Sunday, Roll Call caught the story…
Looking for a Republican Senate candidate who will challenge Marion Michael Rounds on his enthusiastic promotion and continued defense of South Dakota's EB-5 visa investment program, now under investigation by the feds? Forget Jason Ranvsborg. He's still practicing talking points…
Balanced budget? What balanced budget? asks Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton): The general appropriations bill SB 187 for this year increased spending from last session’s HB 1185 general appropriations bill by about $169 million and 124 new full time state employees.…
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