Can't get permanent Daylight Saving Time, can't get an Ethics Commission... do we have to initiate everything?! The South Dakota House decided Wednesday that a statewide Ethics Commission is a bad idea. Democrats had proposed not even a bill, just…
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Rep. Peggy Gibson (D-22/Huron) is ready to do some serious work in Pierre this session. Responding to her legislative colleagues' inaction on the EB-5 scandal, Rep. Gibson writes in last Wednesday's Plainsman that South Dakota needs an ethics commission to…
Campaign manager Rob Skjonsberg has had an awful time explaining away his boss Mike Rounds's foibles. Now he has to explain his own. The Nation's Lee Fang discovers that Skjonsberg used his position on the state Board of Economic Development…
Annette Bosworth may be getting down to the bare essentials of her fake U.S. Senate campaign with her latest press conference. Tuesday's event comes scantily clad in the following teasing release: The location of the press conference will be released…
Rep. Kristi Noem didn't send me these letters; my Dem friends did: Rep. Kristi Noem dated these two letters, on Medicare and the Farm Bill, October 18, 2012. She sent them on her Congressional letterhead and used her franking privilege,…
Pat Powers is as predictable as Kristi Noem. When Matt Varilek lands hard punches on the woman whose job he deserves to take, the GOP-mouthpiece blog tries concocting some silly technical argument to smear Varilek, hoping that people won't pay…
The National Association of Secretaries of State has handed South Dakota Secretary of State Jason Gant some nice résumé filler with an appointment to co-chair its Committee on Elections. NASS could have done South Dakota a favor and ordered Secretary…
When blogger Pat Powers grabbed the golden patronage ring after the 2010 election, his new boss, Secretary of State Jason Gant, said Powers wouldn't have time for political shenanigans: Secretary of State-elect Jason Gant says he didn't tell Pat Powers…