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…
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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…
The GOP spin machine has slobberingly cited Republican pollster Glen Bolger's claim, published Tuesday, that Mike Rounds is leading Rick Weiland 48–24 in South Dakota's U.S. Senate race. Even Mike Rounds doesn't believe that wishful result. Check out this fundraising…
Rick Weiland, Larry Pressler, Mike Rounds, and Gordon Howie "debated" on South Dakota Public Broadcasting last night to prove who ought to be South Dakota's next Senator. Here are the most important observations to come from the debate: Gordon Howie…
If Senator Tim Johnson was planning to engage in the climax of the campaign to replace him, I thought he would simply match Senator John Thune's pro-Rounds pitch with a warm, fuzzy pro-Weiland ad. This evening, an hour before the…
Mr. Ehrisman wonders why we haven't seen a big Governor Dennis Daugaard endorsement ad for Mike Rounds for Senate. Well, Senator John Thune is on the air telling folks to send him Rounds to join him for No Theater: Be…
Republicans are desperate to beat back Rick Weiland's October surge. Alas, the only way the National Republican Senatorial Committee sees fit to do that is through more falsehood: The two biggest lies in this ad are the claims that (1)…
Over a year ago, the Council for a Livable World endorsed Rick Weiland's Senate campaign. I noted at the time that the anti-nuclear group's endorsement shouldn't concern boosters of Ellsworth Air Force Base, since Ellsworth doesn't pack nukes any more.…