I rode hard on David Mitchell Saturday for not completely filling out his District 20 House nominating petitions and argued that his effort to have a judge fill in the blanks was unlikely to succeed. The intrepid David Montgomery posts…
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Eager reader and legislator Stace Nelson comes through with a link to the story the second Democrat asking a judge to put him on the ballot. Mitchell's David Mitchell (yes, if you're working on a punchline, he's already heard it)…
We can't sue the Porcupine Post Office for closing before 5 p.m., but we can take Secretary Gant to court! The Rapid City Journal reports that the South Dakota Democratic Party is challenging Secretary of State Jason Gant's rejection of…
Yesterday I wondered for how many of the South Dakota Legislature GOP primaries Gordon Howie would try to take credit. The answer this morning: all of them! A statewide effort was launched to recruit conservative Christian candidates to challenge the…
Rep. Brian C. Liss says a lot of stupid things. His justification for referring HB 1133 is not one of them: Rep. Brian Liss, R-Sioux Falls, said he supports the idea of planning, but the measure passed by this year's…
Wow! Here's something that happened under my radar: Americans Elect announces that it has filed 15,609 signatures with Secretary Gant to land a spot on South Dakota's presidential ballot. That's just about double what they needed to make the ballot.…
If you want to circulate petitions, visit SDEA's Facebook page and say so! They'll send you a petition packet! Let me be clear: By far, the biggest reason I'm excited about SDEA's decision to seek a referendum on HB 1234…
Kudos to Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker, for vetoing his city council's move to extend the terms of city commissioners and the mayor himself from two years to three. Kooiker, who has largely stayed out of the public debate until…