Rep. Rev. Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls) had another good idea shot down in the Legislature last week. Continuing to confound those of us who'd like all Republicans to fall into a neat category of people who are always wrong, Rep.…
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Annette Bosworth and Chad Haber's raffle-scam response is already falling apart. The damage-control letter Joel Arends submits to that Sioux Falls paper peddles the Bosworth-Haber claim that their second round of raffles failed due to employee misconduct. Arends says the…
There are three kinds of falsehoods: lies, damned lies, and stuff Annette Bosworth says. Now that Sioux Falls paper has decided the whoppers Annette Bosworth tells are too big to ignore. In a lengthy report, Jonathan Ellis confirms much of…
Yesterday Bob Mercer and the GOP spin machine called for resurrecting Senate Bill 33, the Indian Voter Suppression Act, with an amendment to require that private groups who fund voting stations and other elections administration activities reveal their funding sources.…
Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To avoid the DCI! Annette Bosworth has left the country with at least two consumer complaints against her pending in the state Attorney General's office. A South Dakotan contacted me this morning and…
In more race-based conclusion-jumping, the Madison Daily Leader editorial page is feeling queasy about the proposal to turn the South Unit of the Badlands into the first tribal national park. Letting the Lakota run the Stronghold, frets publisher Jon Hunter,…
News in the mainstream GOP spin machine's world: U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Stace Nelson says on his third quarter 2013 campaign finance report that he already had $18,835 in his campaign war chest when he launched his campaign this summer.…
—Why did the U.S.S. Bosworth sink? —Because of all the leaks. Various commentators have wondered why Annette Bosworth has not issued a formal response, not to mention refunds, for her land and motorcycle raffles that never were. Annette Bosworth did…