David Lias posts a press release from the South Dakota Democratic Party decrying the use of taxpayers' dollars to campaign for corporate welfare. Today's knocker-twister: the South Dakota Municipal League has published its October edition of South Dakota Municipalities with…
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I receive the following curious e-mail from someone claiming to represent "Veterans Against Unethical Politicians," the name used by whoever put out the September 17 robocall attacking Senator Tim Rave (R-25/Baltic). "Veterans Against Unethical Politicians" is named as one of…
...and Stan Adelstein... and country-club Republicans. Credit my eager readers for getting me thinking about this: Senator Dan Lederman's Rushmore PAC is leading the litigious countercharge to protect the thin-skinned GOP Legislative leadership from free speech. Where does the Rushmore…
District 8 Senate candidate Charlie Johnson is a good guy (not to mention a brave Madville Times sponsor!). The South Dakota Educators Political Action Committee, affiliated with SDEA, are good folks, too. But might Charlie be too good a guy?…
I can think of only two logical explanations for Mitt Romney's reiteration of the GOP's Drill Baby Drill energy plan: He just got some big donations from Big Oil executives. He's a catastrophic millennialist: Jesus is coming, so why save…
Rep. Kristi Noem refuses to debate Matt Varilek on the Freedom Stage at the State Fair September 1, because she says that debate host South Dakota Farmers Union is an unfair, partisan organization. As evidence, the GOP spin machine submits…
Secretary of State Jason Gant doesn't know if the coordinated attack on the GOP leadership of the South Dakota Legislature violates campaign finance law. Neither the robocall, the postcard, or the e-mail calling Reps. Lust, Cronin, and Gosch and Senator…
PP? P-U! Dakota War College dissembles again. Pat Powers takes another gratuitous swipe at Senator Angie Buhl with a misleading headline and incomplete facts. Powers claims that Sen. Buhl is "bringing in the PAC bacon from out of state." However,…