According to his first-quarter campaign finance report, M. Michael Rounds paid the bull-riding Alexandria, Virginia, funsters at LVH Consulting $7,000 to help him figure out how to raise money. In May, Jim DeMint's Senate Conservatives Fund paid LVH Consulting $7,811.56…
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I don't go to Tea Party rallies to make mischief. I save the mischief for afterwards. Here are some photos from today's Tea Party "Constitution Rally" at Memorial Park in Rapid City. Video and commentary coming up tomorrow. Stay tuned!
With her support for more government surveillance, more ag welfare, and more military spending, Rep. Kristi Noem will have as hard a time winning Jim DeMint's seal of approval as M. Michael Rounds. The far-from-liberal rag Pierre Capital Journal smells…
As the Republican spin machine celebrates spending tax dollars on legislators' dues to a private, pro-corporate lobbying organization, Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) establishes his crossover conservative-independent cred by agreeing with Dems like Rep. Bernie Hunhoff that sending your tax dollars…
Dakota War College sniffs with disdain at an upcoming info session on urban chickens in Pierre. Branding Dakota Rural Action "liberal" (and we know that's a fightin' word in the conservative lobe of the South Dakota Blogopshere), DWC's Pat Powers…
Never do I feel the urge to pronounce potpourri as poopery more strongly than when I use it in conjunction with the word conservative... My conservative friends are up to various forms of monkey business this week: The Republican Liberty…
As Senator Tim Johnson confirms the open playing field we've been assuming for quite some time, a well-funded out-of-state conservative PAC puts some teeth in the threat to the GOP machine's hope that achievementless former Governor M. Michael Rounds would…
Indeed, my heart is gladdened: the Displaced Plainsman reports that conservative and liberal politicians tend to overestimate the conservatism of their constituents. LK points to Garance Franke-Ruta's hypothesis that legislators get a right-skewed impression of their constituents through exposure to…