Rep. Phil Jensen is not a happy camper. On May 25th, the District 33 Rapid City Republican lobbed some pretty harsh words at Governor Dennis Daugaard, who has endorsed his challenger, Mike Buckingham, for the District 33 Senate primary: "What's…
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Sen. Elizabeth Kraus (R-33/Rapid City) is leaving the Legislature. Kraus was the promulgator of South Dakota's anti-gay marriage amendment. Bob Mercer notes that this amendment resulted in part from Michele Bachmann's encouraging Kraus to be an even more ambitious bigot:…
Governor Dennis Daugaard has thus far kept a pretty tight focus on practical budget issues and stayed away from the culture war that some legislators insist on fighting. But Rep. Phil Jensen's hoghouse amendment of his own HB 1171 into…
Update: We still haven't passed a state budget. Mandy at DakotaWomen reports that our legislators are running scared from Rep. Phil Jensen's major screw-up of HB 1171, the now nationally known "shoot the doc" abortion bill. HB 1171 started as…
The South Dakota Legislature becomes a bigger embarrassment every day. At a crackerbarrel in Rapid City yesterday, Rep. Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) declared it a problem that American women marry whom they want: In the Western world... Muslim men are…