The EB-5 scandal is so dangerous to Republicans that the state party is lying to its own voters. An eager reader says the SDGOP is sending out the following letter to registered Republicans: Wow—talk about missing the point! Let's go…
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We have Mike Rounds's responses to the Government Operations and Audit Committee's questions about his Office of Economic Development's use of the EB-5 visa investment program. The answers are by turns combative (he accuses legislators of defamation) and evasive. Let…
Dick Wadhams and the South Dakota Republican Party are really good at hearing only what they want to hear and not what is actually said. Rep. Kathy Tyler (D-4/Big Stone City) spent 20 minutes Monday laying out the case that…
For today's reality-denial special, we have fake U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth saying that the big takeaway from Jonathan Ellis's February 23 exposé of her serious financial troubles is not that she tricked South Dakotans out of their money with…
The South Dakota Democratic Party has called for a special prosecutor to investigate "the $550,000 theft of taxpayer funds by Northern Beef Packers and SDRC, Inc." The SDDP, like me, wonders why Attorney General Marty Jackley is declining to take…
South Dakota GOP Senate candidate Marion Michael Rounds went to Iowa last week to rub shoulders with Rick Santorum. The Displaced Plainsman notes that Rounds got to hear Santorum brand Ronald Reagan and every honest demographer in America a Marxist:…
Regular readers know I don't go for conspiracy theories. But give me three instances of the powers that be portraying anti-Keystone XL activists as terrorists, and I can't help thinking we face an orchestrated corporate PR campaign. First public officials…
Has your government ever labelled you a potential terrorist? My state government may have just done that to me. Last Tuesday, May 14, five Black Hills school districts—Rapid City, Sturgis, Deadwood, Custer, and Hot Springs—participated in a terrorism response drill.…