I just want to celebrate with Senator Angie Buhl O'Donnell and the South Dakota Democrats, who joyfully announce that vile, discriminatory, and unconstitutional Senate Bill 67 is dead! But I can't. Prime sponsor Senator Ernie Otten (R-6/Tea) withdrew the bill…
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Now that the Legislature is in session, the time-wasting machine is kicking into gear. Senate Bills 62, 63, and 64 start what I feared: a cycle of time wasted misfocused on analyzing the Common Core standards instead of implementing real…
Oh joy. District 6 sends conservative Republican Ernie Otten to represent them in the Senate, and what's the first thing he does? Gets together with Rep. Lance Russell (R-30/Hot Springs) to write a gunslingers' bill. Well, they didn't really write…
Scott Ehrisman posts an e-mail exchange indicating that most of the Legislative candidates in District 6 are cool with three debates. Contrary to my initially erroneous and unfairly maligning post last week, Tea Republican Senate candidate Ernie Otten is willing…
UPDATE 19:28 MDT: No, he is not. As Michael Larson, teacher and debate coach at Lennox High School informs us below, Mr. Otten is not dodging any debate. He has not declined to appear on stage one-on-one with Mr. Schriever.…
Republican Sen. Dan Lederman's Rushmore PAC (which filed its organization papers with the Secretary of State's office one business day after Pat Powers resigned from the Secretary of State's office to go work for Rushmore PAC) has endorsed twelve Legislative…
Republican Ernie Otten has not suffered the indignity of his Republican Governor and Republican Secretary of State endorsing his Republican opponent in his Republican primary race. (His campaign has enjoyed the indignity of out-district PACs sending flyers filled with lies…
We're a week out from a big election; it must be time for the lying creeps (or is it just one creep, David Astin?) of the Family Matters PAC to send out more bogus pink campaign flyers. This year, Astin…