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Posts tagged as “corruption”

“It’s a Load, Mike”—New Video Mocks Rounds Evasiveness in Song

Is the cavalry coming for Rick Weiland? A second independent PAC has issued a video calling Mike Rounds to account for corruption in South Dakota's EB-5 program: Claiming responsibility for this video is Blue America PAC, a collaboration of liberal…

Rounds Let Bollen Break Securities Law? Democrats Hammering, GOP Yammering

Mike Rounds and the South Dakota Republican Party are having an awful time coming up with answers to the substantive charges of corruption surrounding Mike Rounds's economic development policies. Consider the latest revelations about misconduct under the Governor's Office of…

Woster Uneasy with Challenge to Rounds Propaganda

Reporter Kevin Woster feels so bad for Mike Rounds that he responds to the beating the GOP Senate candidate took this week by posting, without commentary or analysis, twelve reasons that Team Rounds says are why we "oughta like Mike."…

Tidemann: Legislature Pretty Much Done Probing GOED/EB-5

Senator Larry Tidemann (R-7/Brookings) says the Government Operations and Audit Committee's probe of financial misconduct in the Governor's Office of Economic Develoment and the EB-5 visa investment program are pretty much over. Over? I didn't even notice that they'd begun.…

Statehouse Reporting Declines; South Dakota Has Fewest Capital Correspondents

The Pew Research Center released a study yesterday on journalism in our state capitals. Pew finds 751 full-time statehouse reporters and 851 part-time statehouse reporters. Newspapers have retreated from the statehouses, but they still provide the largest portion of that…

Democrats Fail to Challenge Jackley, Leave Corruption Unchallenged

Some days my party makes my blogging harder. My friends Larry Kurtz and Leo Kallis did fine work this weekend providing the blogosphere with photos and analysis from the South Dakota Democratic convention in Yankton. I wish I could have…

Take the Lowe Road, Wismer: Talk Culture of Corruption!

One of the talking points Democratic nominee Susan Wismer needs to adopt from her vanquished primary opponent Joe Lowe is his talk of the "culture of corruption" fostered by the Rounds-Daugaard administration. Why? It's true! Fighting a "Culture of Corruption"…