My Republican neighbors like to complain about "activist judges" and President Obama's executive orders. But when it comes to gay rights, these conservative complainers should take a chill pill. By overturning gay-marriage bans and extending benefits to same-sex couples, judges…
Posts tagged as “Larry Pressler”
In a symbolic committee vote Wednesday, Senator Tim Johnson had the good sense to reject rank Big Oil propaganda and vote against the Keystone XL pipeline... sort of. The Senate Energy Committee approved Senator Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) pro-Keystone XL bill…
Oh, Bob Mercer, you kidder! Delivering some crafty political satire (or maybe just baiting me), Mercer rolls out of bed this morning to suggest that Democrat Rick Weiland can't win and should abandon the U.S. Senate race to give Independent…
Independent candidate for U.S. Senate Larry Pressler thinks the low turnout in Tuesday's primary is a problem. One way to address that problem, says Pressler, is to have more public debates! Because of the low turnout apathy in the primary,…
Marion Michael Rounds was surely not out sweating in the summer heat going door to door for votes. He was probably happy to see the media (including me) distracted by one illegitimate candidate's continuing self-immolation. But then KSFY, bless their…
Independent candidate for Senate Larry Pressler writes the lead-in for what should be the first question at tonight's debate among the GOP Senate candidates on SDPB: Obamacare is here to stay. Our new U.S. senator will have to do the…
Kevin Woster's debunking of the Larry Pressler-closet story provokes Joel Rosenthal to recount a locker-room meeting with the veteran Senator and newly minted Independent candidate. Rosenthal says he was "barely clothed in a towel after showering" when Pressler "literally bumped…
Jason Ravnsborg's latest campaign video claims that he is the "ONLY U.S. Senate candidate with relevant military experience." Ravnsborg drove supplies around combat zones and now does intel as an Army Reservist. Fellow Republican candidate Rep. Stace Nelson chased and…