If I'm going to spin a tenuous hypothesis that Governor Dennis Daugaard is using his veto of HB 1228 to take a swipe at us green Lefties, then I am obliged to recognize his veto of HB 1248 as a…
Posts tagged as “Betty Olson”
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) drove a long way Saturday to say not much to her constituents. At the crackerbarrel in Belle Fourche, I think she spoke up four times: During introductions, she talked about her changing district and her…
House Agriculture and Natural Resources passed House Bill 1087 yesterday. This bill is Rep. Betty Olson's (R-28/Prairie City) latest attempt to kill conservation easements in South Dakota. Ostensibly, the bill only eliminates perpetual conservation easements by setting a thirty-year limit…
Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) hates conservation easements. Last year she co-sponsored two failed bills that sought to create all sorts of red tape for property owners who want to establish conservation easements on their land. Now Rep. Olson is…
Representative Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) gets the highest score of any South Dakota legislator on the shadowy SDFC's Freedom Index. Voicing her support for Governor Dennis Daugaard's two-year moratorium on acquisitions of land by the state Game Fish and Parks…