The Walker and Bosworth petition frauds suggest the need to change our election calendar to allow more time to review nominating petitions. Our North Dakota neighbors just voted to change their calendar for ballot measure petitions. In last week's primary,…
Posts tagged as “initiative”
In the South Dakota Legislature,"deferred to the 41st day" usually means dead. But House Bill 1096 reminds us that resurrection is a simple matter of majority vote. With HB 1096, Rep. Herman Otten (R-6/Tea) wanted to ban campaign signs on…
They may not have made a convincing case, but they made it to enough people to get the first job done! Organizers of the "Any Willing Provider" initiative have submitted 29,000 signatures to the Secretary of State to place that…
And another Dem rides the bus... to Pierre, this morning, with over 25,000 signatures calling for a statewide vote on raising South Dakota's minimum wage! The South Dakota Democratic Party sends out a press release celebrating its apparently enormously successful…
Kudos to Lake County Democrats Lorri May and Shirley Harrington-Moore! The county party announced on Facebook last night that these two ladies have collected the most signatures in the state for the minimum-wage initiative petition. Good hustle, Lorri and Shirley!…
This blog has remained mostly ambivalent toward the "any willing provider" initiative that supporters hope to put on next fall's ballot. Up until last week, I hadn't heard anything about it outside of this little chunk of the blogosphere, either.…
Busy Dems are happy Dems! The South Dakota Democratic Party calls its faithful friends to action today and tomorrow. Today the Dems plan to do some shouting about the government shutdown in front of Congresswoman Kristi Noem's Sioux Falls office…
I'm undecided and taking input on the "any willing provider" initiative. Independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Myers obliges with commentary that matches a sentiment I've heard in my comment section: we need an "any willing provider" to challenge monopoly power in…