Mike Myers made the ballot on time, but not his press conference. The now-official Independent gubernatorial candidate was supposed to spend an hour with Republican gubernatorial candidate Lora Hubbel telling the press about corruption in South Dakota. He arrived nearly…
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In reviewing a big pile of vouchers, receipts, and other documents from the Governor's Office of Economic Development from 2009 to 2013, South Dakota's auditor general found that Governor Mike Rounds let slide some sloppy financial oversight. I find a…
On Wednesday I discussed how the Brandon Taliaferro case exposes the ugly politics in South Dakota's foster care system. Now, a postscript from the judge. A year ago, Judge Gene Paul Kean dismissed the state's case against Taliaferro, saying the…
We have sources telling the press that $450,000 of a $1,000,000 state grant to Northern Beef Packers for construction and equipment went straight into Richard Benda's pocket in early 2011 as a two-year advance salary for "loan monitoring." We have…
The South Dakota Democratic Party has called for a special prosecutor to investigate "the $550,000 theft of taxpayer funds by Northern Beef Packers and SDRC, Inc." The SDDP, like me, wonders why Attorney General Marty Jackley is declining to take…
The EB-5 visa program that is blowing up in South Dakota was supposed to end last year. But Congress and the President extended it through Fiscal Year 2015 last year with Senate Bill 3245. The Senate passed it by unanimous…
Rule #1 for any political scandal: follow the money. David Montgomery gives us an idea of how much money there is to follow in the EB-5 visa scandal facing South Dakota's state economic development program: millions of dollars in "closing"…
Pat Powers outs Pierre-area Republican Jim Sheehan as author of a new blog, Republican Territory. Sheehan has been playing Federalist Papers fitfully for a bit over a year, warming his quill behind a suitably Roman superhero pseudonym with a few…