Chamber of Commerce members say the darndest things. Today's laugh line comes from David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber, discussing his disappointment with the failure of Referred Law 14, Governor Dennis Daugaard's corporate welfare plan: The biggest problem…
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Governor Dennis Daugaard's mouth has been writing checks that his electorate won't cash. Bob Mercer reports that Governor Daugaard lured Bel Brands (based in France!) to Brookings with an open-ended promise of corporate welfare worth at least $4.5 million. Daugaard…
KELO actually tries to apply a little heat to Governor Dennis Daugaard for saying the voters who turned down his two (count them! two!) signature pieces of legislation Tuesday were just tired and stupid. Sensing the Facebook rage over the…
South Dakotans spanked Governor Dennis Daugaard hard at the polls Tuesday, overturning two of his signature pieces of legislation with resounding No votes on Referred Laws 14 and 16. Predictably, Governor Daugaard denies that any such thing happened. He says…
...but not the folks who vote for those bad policies. Governor Dennis Daugaard's director of policy and communications Tony Venhuizen said last night that it was "Not a great election for Republicans nationally. But it's shaping up to be a…
Intelligent conversation does happen on Facebook. Last night I found some smart South Dakotans having a civil and substantive discussion about Referred Law 14, Governor Daugaard's corporate welfare slush fund plan. Injected into the conversation was a review of a…
Excellent! The 2012 Legislative campaign is going exactly as I planned. By placing three significant policy issues on the ballot, we voters have forced legislative candidates to talk about real substantial questions about our priorities in Pierre. Nathan Johnson reports…
The Mitchell Daily Republic editorial board is really bad at political arguments. They have endorsed Referred Law 14, Governor Dennis Daugaard's "Large Project Development Fund, based entirely on hopes and wishes. The Mitchell editors acknowledge the very clear problem of…