Mitchell Superintendent Joe Graves usually flacks for whatever the state wants. But at last night's Mitchell school board meeting, he threw arch-conservative opponents of the dreaded Common Core standards a bone: During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve…
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Steve Sibson lost another election last night. Incumbent GOP Senator Mike Vehle whooped Sibby 65% to 35%. But have to love our favorite representative of the wingnut wing of the South Dakota blogosphere when he says this about his performance:…
Steve Sibson says a lot of crazy things. He says democracy is a form of socialism. He says we don't need the 13th, 15th, and 19th Amendments. He calls me a New Age Theocrat and suspects me of being a…
Twelve of the newly drawn South Dakota Legislative districts have Republican primaries for Senate; fifteen have GOP primaries for House. I keep looking for signs that even one of the radical wingnuts whom Gordon Howie claims as members of his…
The Mitchell Daily Republic's Tom Lawrence provides some sharp observations from last week's Davison-Hanson County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner that anti-Establishment candidates may find instructive. The Davison-Hanson County GOP includes two of the biggest anti-Establishment candidates in the state: Rep.…
Big blooming ballots! The Secretary of State's office was busy with all sorts of petitions today. Here are some of today's highlight filings from the official candidates list and the ballot measure page: I heard rumors that Frank Kloucek was…
Blog neighbor Steve Sibson has a terrible tendency to go off the rails. For example, only Sibby can turn a friendly discussion of continued corporate welfare for Big Ag into a battle over New Age theocracy and other figments of…
As I get ready for today's big "Day of Action" to gather the final signatures necessary to refer House Bill 1230, I think of one of the few folks who flatly refused to sign my petition. One Republican woman heard…