I have a three-point plan for South Dakota to invest in schools, roads, and natural resources instead of the failed voo-Daugaard-onomics of the last four years. Finding money for teacher pay, road repairs, environmental protection, and parks may sound like…
Posts tagged as “Bob Mercer”
Joop Bollen has finally complied with the Government Operations and Audit Committee's request for information about the EB-5 visa investment program that he ran for the state. GOAC has posted his November 10 e-mail response (plus the page 20 that…
Bob Mercer beats up on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Susan Wismer in a withering assessment of her campaign. He says Wismer and running mate Susy Blake are about to make unwanted history by lengthening the GOP's grip on the governor's office…
Oh my. Did you see the EB-5 document Bob Mercer posted today? Mercer reports this letter "was given" (Bob! Passive voice?! You're killing me!) "to EB-5 recruiters for South Dakota in August 2007 to be used in pursuing investors in…
Hey, Republicans! When we ask you questions about Mike Rounds's use of the EB-5 visa investment program for economic development, stop shouting It's a federal program!!! Even Bob Mercer isn't buying that dodge: Rounds and Weiland have run TV ads…
You want to talk about recycling old news? Forget Pat Powers's blogular burpage trying to distract us from a new and important piece of the Rounds Administration's facilitation of Joop Bollen's rule-breaking exploitation of the public trust. Let's look at…
Yesterday Sixth Circuit Judge Kathleen Trandahl upheld a hearing examiner's May ruling that Attorney General Marty Jackley can keep secret his investigation of Richard Benda's death. Judge Trandahl's ruling applies SDCL 1-27-1.5(5), which exempts criminal investigation records from our public…
Bob Mercer knows how to strike when the iron is hot. The South Dakota journalist asked Attorney General Marty Jackley to release the records of his investigation of Richard Benda's suspicious death last December. AG Jackley rebuffed Mercer on extra-legal…