Speaking of wild referendum propaganda, we Democrats are still working on our petition to refer House Bill 1230 to a public vote. We having a statewide "Day of Action" tomorrow, Saturday, June 18 to gather signatures for our petitions. Here…
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Folks seeking to refer House Bill 1230 to a public vote in 2012 have until June 27th to gather signatures and submit petitions to Secretary of State Jason Gant. The issue is not partisan; the issue is priorities. If money's…
The South Dakota Farmers Union is throwing its support behind the drive to refer HB 1230, Governor Daugaard's economic development grant fund law, to a public vote: "When we're cutting funds to public education, agricultural research, agriculture education, and other…
I don't like to reprint too many press releases from my party chair; I worry such reprints would make me sound too much like a certain past prominent party-propaganda-parroting blogger. (Besides, my chances of getting a nice patronage job for…
The Madison City Commission approves a tax kickback as a special favor to one business, and what does everyone come to the commission meeting to complain about? Pit bull regulations. Several pit bull owners spoke in defense of their pets,…
Discover the Unexpected... government transfer of wealth.... I knew it! The dog ordinances on Monday's Madison City Commission agenda are a ruse to distract us from the corporate welfare our commissioners plan to hand out. Madison is taking sales tax…
Senator Tim Johnson sees an easy way to shave another $4 billion a year off the federal budget: stop subsidizing the richest oil companies: "High-priced oil threatens both our energy and economic security. We have a homegrown solution — ethanol,"…
As South Dakota Democrats collect signatures to put Governor Dennis Daugaard's myopic and ineffective corpoate handouts to a public vote in 2012, Bob Mercer notes that the governor's math justifying the handouts is a little off: The Daugaard administration also…