The American Legislative Research Council is celebrating 40 years of protecting profits from democracy this week in Chicago. ALEC will host hundreds of members of the legislatures they have co-opted to further instill in them the values of crony capitalism.…
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Former South Dakota Republican Party exec Joel Rosenthal joins other prominent Republicans and a whole bunch of angry South Dakotans in saying that the new Republican-backed policy of giving taxpayer dollars to the partisan, conservative American Legislative Exchange Council is…
As of this early morning, 791 people have signed this online petition protesting our Legislature's use of tax dollars to pay dues to the crony-capitalist American Legislative Exchange Council for all 105 of its members and their travel expenses to…
Our Legislature has reversed some previous good sense, deciding this year that South Dakota is so flush with cash that we can afford to pay for memberships and travel expenses for every legislator to go to the partisan lobbying meetings…
The South Dakota Democratic Party smells another winning issue in the GOP leadership's picking of your pocket on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange Council: But you don't have to take us partisans' word for it. Chairman Nesselhuf posts links…
As the Republican spin machine celebrates spending tax dollars on legislators' dues to a private, pro-corporate lobbying organization, Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) establishes his crossover conservative-independent cred by agreeing with Dems like Rep. Bernie Hunhoff that sending your tax dollars…
This winter, the South Dakota Legislature decided to spend an extra half-million dollars on itself, even though its own Research Council never said they need the money. House Speaker Brian Gosch (R-32/Rapid City) and Senate Majority Leader Russell Olson (R-8/Wentworth)…
Remember the half-million dollars that the Legislature added to its own budget, giving themselves twelve times more money to play with than they could find for each K-12 teacher in South Dakota. The Legislative Research Council never said they needed…