Don't shout "Success!" just yet, but state Democratic Party chairman Ben Nesselhuf appears to have earned his pay for the month. A press release from the South Dakota Democratic Party announces that it and its petition partners are submitting 22,791…
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That Saturday petition push must have paid off for Huron voters seeking to recall Mayor Dave McGirr. Petitioners needed 1250 signatures to trigger a recall election; organizers said Thursday they have submitted about 1500 signatures for the county auditor's approval.…
Madison just gained a competitive advantage over Watertown. Voters in Watertown rejected a city ordinance that would have allowed mixed martial arts events within city limits. The nays beat the ayes in last night's vote 59% to 41%. Over the…
Barb Lindberg and her West River Tea Partiers may not make next Monday's referendum deadline, a regrettably anonymous South Dakota legislator tells National Review Online: Lindberg was unable to give NRO an estimate of the signatures her group has collected…
Speaking of wild referendum propaganda, we Democrats are still working on our petition to refer House Bill 1230 to a public vote. We having a statewide "Day of Action" tomorrow, Saturday, June 18 to gather signatures for our petitions. Here…
Dog bites man: the Rapid City Teabaggers "Citizens for Liberty" send out some crazy propaganda to drum up last-minute signatures for the petition drive to refer two innocuous new South Dakota health care laws to a public vote. Click on…
There are two referral movements afoot in South Dakota. Democrats are gathering signatures to refer Governor Dennis Daugaard's economic development grant program (also known as futile corporate welfare) to a public vote in 2012. Teabaggers are gathering signatures to refer…
Pat Powers isn't blogging anymore, but he still sends me more interesting news than than his old stomping grounds. Powers e-mails a press release from Secretary of State Gant announcing that Barb Lindberg of the Rapid City Tea Party (well,…