"Embattled" (that's David Montgomery's first word) Secretary of State Jason Gant goes LBJ and tells us today he won't for a second term. This announcement comes after a clear vote of no confidence from his own party as Senator Shantel…
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Aberdeen blogger Ken Santema declares current Secretary of State Jason Gant unfit for service. He says Gant has demonstrated an inability to carry out two primary responsibilities of his office, chief elections officer and top notary public. He notes that…
Backers of Rep. Stace Nelson's campaign for U.S. Senate are floating on Twitter the claim that Nelson got the most votes of all South Dakota State Representatives yet gets called "unelectable" by the Rounds-Wadhams campaign machine. I haven't seen the…
Lacking any grasp of policy or strategy, GOP Senate candidate Annette Bosworth likes to campaign by analogy: Bosworth pointed to Alieta Eck, another independent physician currently running for New Jersey’s open Senate seat, as an example that others in her…
We're getting what feels like a lot of churn in the Legislature, and it's not even an election year. In the last couple months, four three* legislators have chosen not to complete the terms to which their neighbors elected them…
A paragraph should have a topic sentence and sentences that support it. Here's what passes for a paragraph in the Rapid City Journal as Michael Sanborn warns Brendan Johnson and Kristi Noem not to challenge their respective party front-runners in…
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.... Monday I complained that Secretary of State Jason Gant was asleep at the switch again, this time denying the public useful information about the 2014 election schedule. One commenter felt…
A commenter gets me wondering just what the deadlines are for submitting nominating petitions for the 2014 primary in South Dakota. Answer: March 25, 5 p.m. I found that date by paging through South Dakota Codified Law to statute 12-6-4.…