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Adelstein Endorses Not-Obama in Senate Race

Former State Senator Stan Adelstein took U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rounds to Israel to rub elbows and burnish his foreign policy cred in May 2013. Now the moderate Rapid City Republican blows the conservative dog whistle and tries to save…

Adelstein: Pressler Damaging Rounds/GOP Chances in Senate Race

From whom does Independent Senate candidate Larry Pressler take more votes, Republican Mike Rounds or Democrat Rick Weiland? I maintain that Pressler's prior Republicanism and Democratic unity behind their best statewide candidate mean Pressler's a bigger threat to Rounds. However,…

Adelstein Endorses Krebs; Dems Need SOS Candidate to Lead Conversation

Tomorrow morning, the South Dakota Republican Party will choose its candidate for Secretary of State. Since my Democratic Party has not yet announced any candidate for perhaps the most contestable office on the ballot this fall, the SDGOP may indeed…

Why Some Republicans Hate Republican Stan Adelstein

So Stan Adelstein resigns from the South Dakota Senate, and the opposite-of-classy Pat Powers can only gripe that Adelstein played political hardball with Pat's pals, the same kind of war-college hardball that those pals play with everyone else in their…

Adelstein Resigns from South Dakota Senate, Citing Health

Bad news for conscience and sanity in the Legislature: Senator Stanford Adelstein has resigned from the South Dakota Senate. Here's the press release from Adelstein's office: Senator Stan Adelstein today announced his resignation from the State Senate due to complications…

Republican Senator Renews Call to Expand Medicaid

Democrats and South Dakota's low-income workers again have a friend in Senator Stanford Adelstein. Rapid City's most interesting Republican renews his call for the Legislature and Governor Dennis Daugaard to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act: The proposed expansion…

Adelstein Commemorates Rescue of Danish Jews at Mt. Rushmore Saturday

With the help of Danish-American groups, the Mount Zion Temple and Synagogue of the Hills, Bishop Zellmer and the ELCA, and the Black Hills Area Community Foundation, Senator Stanford Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) is organizing a historical commemoration at Mount Rushmore…

Weiland Downplays Rounds’s Holy Road Trip with Adelstein

Senator Stanford Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) has taken M. Michael Rounds to Israel this week. Alas, Stan will probably bring Mike back to South Dakota. Rounds said his trip would help make him a better senator, if elected. “This will be…