The South Dakota Democratic Party is trying to make hay of Congresswoman Kristi Noem's refusal to relieve herself of $2380 in donations her campaign received from corrupt, disgraced, and disbarred South Dakota banker Lee C. Peterson. (Disbanked? What's the financial…
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Congresswoman Kristi Noem is in the bug-beset Black Hills today. She's convening a field meeting of her House Natural Resources subcommittee to discuss the pine beetle epidemic. We've allowed trees to grow unnaturally thick in the Hills, making an easy…
Mr. Sanborn's class warfare argument on the Hanks-vs.-Kooiker mayoral contest in Rapid City got me wondering not just who's voting for whom but who's donating to whom. The Rapid City Journal covered this topic pre-election as did Emilie Rusch on…
Yes, this deserves an exclamation point. David Montgomery's report on the big PAC money driving state legislature campaigns includes this interesting undercard: Secretary of State Jason Gant plans to totally computerize our state campaign finance records. Journalists and bloggers rejoice!…
I take it all back: Congresswoman Kristi Noem is a genius. Just look at her new political action committee. She didn't just call it "Kristi-PAC," the way some other pols just slap their name on their slush funds. She and…
Uh oh: I get an e-mail from Pat Powers, chief operating officer of the Secretary of State's office, announcing fines for candidates and committees who failed to meet yesterday's campaign finance filing deadline. I quickly scan for "Lake County Democrats"...…
During this year's Congressional campaign, Dakota War College made the patently absurd spin-claim that Kristi Noem would not get a whole lot of support from out-of-state groups, that her campaign would win mostly on local, grassroots, South Dakota efforts. DWC…