Republican Ron Slaba Running to Replace Betty Olson
The good news: Rep. Betty Olson (R-28B/Prairie City) can't run for South Dakota House this year! The bad news: it's only our unwise and unnecessary term limits, not conscience or popular pressure,...
View ArticleRep. Nelson: Open GOP Caucus Meetings, End EB-5
Rep. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) makes my day with two new bills aimed at the arrogant secrecy of his own party. Notoriously averse to omnibus bills, Rep. Nelson keeps his bills short. House Bill 1172...
View ArticleHB 1177: Republicans Strip Local Governments of Road Safety Authority
Have we killed the "Republicans support local control" lie yet? If not, see House Bill 1177, in which a herd of Republican legislators attempt to stamp their casual attitude toward highway safety on...
View ArticleDairy Trivia: SD Ag Dept Targets Small Dairy Run by Brookings GOP Chair
The state Department of Agriculture made a gross error last month in announcing that Brookings County dairy Jerseydale Farms was selling raw milk with dangerous bacteria in it and closing down the...
View ArticleRounds, Bosworth Both Fake Conservatism
Marion Michael Rounds and Annette Bosworth Haber are equally fake Republican Senate candidates. In Pierre last night, Rounds gave the friendly Hughes-Stanley Lincoln Day Dinner crowd a display of...
View ArticleOklahoma Republican Seeks Info on EB-5; SDGOP, Take Note!
In more EB-5 irony, some of the folks most passionate about investigating the EB-5 visa investment program that Republicans like Mike Rounds so eagerly promoted in South Dakota are Republicans from...
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RNC Tries to Trick Donors with False Membership Expiration Warning
An eager reader forwards a fundraising letter he received from the Republican National Committee, who insist that America is lost if he doesn't send his $25: RNC Fundraising Letter Feb 2014 Obama...
View ArticleStace Nelson Lures Republicans into Voting Against Republican National Committee
Rep. Stace Nelson continues to demonstrate how not to make friends among his fellow Republicans. This afternoon, Rep. Nelson brought to the House floor House Concurrent Resolution 1023, yet another...
View ArticleFrankenstein Fights Indian Voting Rights in Montana, Tries Blocking Good Lawyer
Rapid City lawyer and shiny Republican light Sara Frankenstein likes working on Indian voting rights cases. She does not, alas, like Indian voting rights. Frankenstein tried to defend South Dakota...
View ArticleMathew Wollmann, Big Young GOP Gun for District 8 House
Rep. Scott Parsley's decision to run for Senate again has left an open seat for District 8 House. And before local Dems could come up with a candidate, Republicans have found a powerful candidate,...
View ArticleSchoenbeck: Annette Bosworth Is a Fraud
All you nice out-state Republicans getting post cards from Base Connect, pay attention.... Pat Powers continues to dismiss my investigation and criticism of fake Senate candidate Annette Bosworth as...
View ArticleDemocrats Lagging in Legislative Candidate Recruitment; 89 Seats to Go
Last week, Democrats had 12 candidates filed for seats in the South Dakota Legislature. This week, with just six days left until the March 25 deadline, we have sixteen. Eight in the Senate, eight in...
View ArticleGOP Mud-Wrestling: Miller Encouraged to Challenge Krebs for SOS
Here I thought Shantel Krebs was the South Dakota Republican Party's hero, or at least their dutiful heavy, for uprooting the scandalously incompetent Jason Gant from the 2014 candidates' garden. But...
View ArticleRepublicans Surprised That Their Farm Bill Doesn’t Cut Food Stamps
An eager reader waves at me Alan Guebert's column on surprises in the Farm Bill and asks what I think. I think I'd like to hear an explanation from Rep. Kristi Noem. Guebert notes that Republicans in...
View ArticlePat Miller Announces; GOP Says Heave Ho, Shantel Krebs!
I'll say this for South Dakota Republicans: they can be pretty clever. First they get Senator Shantel Krebs to do their dirty work and pressure Secretary of State Jason Gant not to run for re-election....
View ArticleTop Ten Questions for Tomorrow’s GOP Senate Primary Debate
I'm so excited to see all five Republican Senate candidates get grilled by SDNA journalists tomorrow in Pierre! Here are the top ten questions I hope our Fourth Estate will pitch: Do you agree with...
View ArticleRounds Pulls out of Siouxland Republican Women’s Forum Tuesday
The next big public forum for South Dakota's Republican U.S. Senate candidates happens Tuesday (tax day! good timing for a conservative audience!) at the Good Samaritan Jerstad Center in Sioux Falls....
View ArticleDistrict 23 GOP House Candidates Dodge K-12 Responsibility, Back Keystone XL…
Kudos to Ken Santema for making the drive out to Ipswich for Monday's District 23 GOP House candidates forum. His summary of the candidates' responses to audience questions is a useful guide for voters...
View ArticleRavnsborg Says Rounds and Nelson Unelectably Scandalous; No Dirt on Rhoden?
Instead of going to the Franklin and gambling my life savings (that would have taken about ten minutes), I gambled my life and went to the Lawrence County Lincoln Day Dinner at the Spearfish Holiday...
View ArticleHappy Couple to Sue South Dakota for Marriage Equality: GOP Ignores Own Ideals
Mayor Betsy Hodges of Minneapolis officiated at the wedding of two South Dakotans Saturday: “Congratulations to this fabulous couple. Twenty-seven years together. Twenty-seven years of family....
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