Last night's KELO Senate debate was an example of substandard political journalism by South Dakota's broadcast media. Moderators Ben Dunsmoor and Don Jorgensen failed to live up to their own promised format, to manage the debate fairly, or to ask…
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Democrat Rick Weiland and Independents Larry Pressler and Gordon Howie spent the final debate of South Dakota's U.S. Senate campaign doing what they should have been doing from Day One of their campaigns: calling Republican Mike Rounds out on his…
On October 15, Gary Coe of Lead filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to create Many True Conservatives. Coe sells magic pills of unknown composition. By waiting so late to create his PAC, he can now sell political messages…
Elm Springs rancher Pat Trask boils the case against Mike Rounds into one simple message: Mike Rounds puts big money over the interests of South Dakota. "I voted for Reagan, Bush, Thune -- but I can't vote for Mike Rounds,"…
Finally, Rick Weiland and I have something we can disagree on. Our Democratic candidate for Senate is telling Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee to pull their ads against Mike Rounds. In a Monday press release,…
KELO misreads its own poll on the effect of Northern Beef Packers and EB-5 on the U.S. Senate race. "EB-5 Has Little Effect on Voters," says the headline, introducing Ben Dunsmoor's dismissal of the potency of the issue. But we…
In December 2008, International Code Council CEO Rick Weiland sent a letter to incoming Energy Secretary Dr. Steven Chu encouraging the Obama Administration to include $100 million for "grants to local governments to upgrade their building code enforcement to new…
Was all the excitement about a narrow South Dakota U.S. Senate race mere hype? The latest NBC-Marist poll says maybe. It puts Rounds back above 40%, Weiland back below 30%, and Pressler back where every bit of conventional wisdom said…