During the 2010 campaign, Kristi Noem squared her soapbox scorn for the 2009 federal stimulus with her eager votes to save South Dakota's budget with the stimulus by saying that if she and her Legislative colleagues hadn't voted to take…
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When South Dakota conservative activist Barb Lindberg and her Black Hills pals failed to get enough signatures to refer two state laws related to health insurance reform on the ballot, I ascribed it to a pragmatic decision by most rightwingers…
I confess: I want to gloat over the Tea Party's failure to gather enough signatures to refer Senate Bills 38 and 43 to a public vote, especially when contrasted with the South Dakota Dems' successful submission of nearly 23,000 signatures…
Barb Lindberg and her West River Tea Partiers may not make next Monday's referendum deadline, a regrettably anonymous South Dakota legislator tells National Review Online: Lindberg was unable to give NRO an estimate of the signatures her group has collected…
Dog bites man: the Rapid City Teabaggers "Citizens for Liberty" send out some crazy propaganda to drum up last-minute signatures for the petition drive to refer two innocuous new South Dakota health care laws to a public vote. Click on…
Fellow Dems! Are you thinking of running for Kristi Noem's U.S. House seat in 2012 but worry you won't be able to come up with enough campaign material? Please. Worry no more. Thanks to Rep. Noem's vote for the draconian,…
We're all pretty clear on the fact that South Dakota's latest attempt to make abortion impossible violates the Constitution. But did you know that state-level efforts around the country to defund family planning clinics may violate the Constitution and federal…
Candidate Kristi Noem demonstrated noteworthy social media savvy at the start of her campaign for U.S. House last year. Now Steve Jarding and the South Dakota Alliance for Progress are fighting Facebook with Facebook—specifically, with online ads warning voters that…