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Republican Ron Slaba Running to Replace Betty Olson

The good news: Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) can't run for South Dakota House this year! The bad news: it's only our unwise and unnecessary term limits, not conscience or popular pressure, driving her out. (As a reader notes below,…

HB 1066: Armed Civilians in Courthouses Show Lack of Faith in Civil Society

Rep. Betty Olson's House Bill 1065, which would make concealed weapons permits free, distracts us from practical policy discussions. Rep. Olson's House Bill 1066 extends the distraction with a dangerous reversal of public safety law. The pistol-packing Prairie City representative…

HB 1065: Free Concealed Weapons Permits!

We have our first manifestation of gun worship in the Legislative hopper. Rep. Betty Olson brings us House Bill 1065, a measure to repeal the fee for concealed weapons permits. Currently, South Dakotans seeking to pack secret heat must pay…

Rep. Betty Olson: Big Ag Caving to “Evil” “Greenies”

In the Hidebound Worldview Department, Queen of Crotchety Commentary Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) now dismisses the ag-industrial lobby, as well as the state veterinarian and a bunch of other South Dakotans, as dastards and dupes. Rep. Olson is vowing…

Betty Olson To Carry ALEC Water Against Net Metering

Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) had fun on the taxpayers' dime at the ALEC conference this month: There were some great speakers at the policy summit: Rep. Paul Ryan, Sen. Ron Johnson, Sen. Ted Cruz, Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, Indiana…

Rep. Betty Olson Wants Armed French Teachers in Your School

Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) is revving up to keep me busy blogging this winter. She wants me to carry a gun in my classroom: As residents of Newtown, Conn., began burying the 20 children and six adults killed in…

Dear Betty Olson: Forget Mountain Lions! Real Killers: Spiders

Rep. Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) hates mountain lions. She also hates coherent essays, as I have the pleasure of reading each week in the pile of random observations she submits to the Black Hills Pioneer. But if you squint hard…