No one should be surprised that I would like to see the GOP majority in the South Dakota Legislature weakened and ultimately overthrown. I see the tension between the GOP leadership and some John-Birchy conservative activists like Rep. Stace Nelson…
Posts tagged as “Stace Nelson”
Representative Stace Nelson dropped by the blog yesterday and commented that he'd had "a rotten day." What the... oh, that: Representative Stace Nelson, who lives just outside of Mitchell in Hanson County, says he is being moved off the House…
The South Dakota Legislature exerted more one-party rule yesterday, passing the Republicans' redistricting plan without amendment. Democratic Reps. Kloucek, Elliot, Wismer, Blake, Lucas, and Gibson all moved to amend the plan; all were roundly defeated on mostly party-line votes. Mea…
South Dakota's legislative redistricting committee has released maps of the new district boundaries it approved on Tuesday. Check out the big map: As Bob Mercer notes, the committee tweaked the original proposal to keep Rep. Frank Kloucek (D-19/Scotland) from having…
State Agriculture Secretary Advocates Dairy, Despite Questionable Cluelessness About Local Concerns The DENR's Water Management Board met Wednesday, July 13, to discuss, among other things, Water Rights Application No. 7239-3 from Hanson County Dairy. Brookings County dairy entrepreneur Michael Crinion…
I read with great relish the conversation on Dakota War College about State Representative Stace Nelson's (R-25/Fulton) complaint over the publication of a smoke-out vote on House Bill 1198 during this year's Legislative session. Rep. Nelson complained that the vote,…
My favorite freshmen aren't just sitting on their hands and letting the party leadership tell them what to do: they're proposing bills! My own District 8 Rep. Patricia Stricherz has floated HB 1055, which tells employers they can't block employees…