South Dakota Senate Republicans yesterday declared that neither young people's labor nor the popular will matter when they want to cut business a break. On a party-line 26–7 vote, the Senate yesterday passed Senate Bill 177 which would set the…
Posts tagged as “initiative”
The South Dakota Family Coalition for Compassion failed to find a legislative champion for its proposal to legalize medical cannabis. Melissa Mentele of SDFCC says her group is fine tuning the bill they drafted to circulate as an initiated measure.…
There is another sign that House Bill 1216, the repeal of the property tax cap, will not pass: the Governor doesn't support it. He sent Mike Houdyshell from the Department of Revenue to offer the only opponent testimony in House…
Senator Corey Brown wants to have a fight over initiative and referendum signature counts. Seeing that the people and press were outraged by his democracy-hating Senate Bill 166, the Senator from Gettysburg asked that his bill be tabled, but not…
Senator Corey Brown (R-23/Gettysburg) does not lose gracefully. His Senate Bill 166 was a spiteful and crassly political ploy to weaken voters' right to legislate via initiative and referendum. The press blasted him, a variety of citizens and groups rose…
Senate Bill 166, Senator Corey Brown's spiteful and sinister attack on your right to legislate via initiative and referendum, hits Senate State Affairs tomorrow morning, Friday, at 9 a.m. Friends and neighbors, now would be a good time to call…
Get ready for an initiated measure to banish Standard Time and put South Dakota on Daylight Savings Time year-round! In his testimony on House Bill 1127 yesterday, Rep. Dan Kaiser (R-3/Aberdeen) told House State Affairs that he brought HB 1127…
Gee, I just thought Senator Corey Brown's Senate Bill 166, his proposal to raise by 88% the signatures necessary to get an initiative or a referendum on the ballot, was just another cynical Republican ploy to defang democracy and insulate…