As Secretary of State Jason Gant begins investigating a batch of campaign finance violations, the nice folks at the Center for Public Integrity remind us that South Dakota does a pretty poor job of keeping state politics honest. They dinged…
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Secretary of State Jason Gant continues to violate the public trust. He's been so busy inserting his incurably partisan self into local primaries that he hasn't managed to get all of the pre-primary campaign finance reports up on time. As…
Secretary of State Jason Gant is generally screwing things up in Pierre. But here's one thing he's doing right: the new searchable campaign finance database. With the pre-primary contribution reports due from candidates last Friday, we now have all sorts…
Montana is fighting the Supreme Court's logic-defying Citizens United in a lawsuit filed by a corporation, not a person, that wants to maintain its right to interfere in Montana state elections with unlimited and anonymous campaign donations. Twenty-two states have…
South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant has launched a potentially useful upgrade of the state's campaign finance reporting system. Gant's press release calls the new "Campaign Account Statement History" (CASH!) system "the most significant development in campaign finance for…
Bill Janklow made the news last week by closing his state campaign account and converting nearly $852,000 in old campaign donations to personal use. (Any of you old donors have a beef with that?) A month ago, another former South…
Back in July, I noted with scorn that Congresswoman Kristi Noem likes to give big campaign donors choice seats at hearings on her pet issues. Now the AP picks up on the story and finds more evidence of that pattern…