AFP-SD Launches First Annual Legislative Scorecard 

Pat Powers

AFP-SD Launches First Annual Legislative Scorecard 

SIOUX FALLS, SD—Americans for Prosperity-South Dakota (AFP-SD) today launched its first annual legislative scorecard to highlight the work state lawmakers put in to remove barriers for South Dakotans. The scorecard launch includes direct-mail, digital advertisements, and personalized  thank you- notes from activists. The grassroots organization plans to highlight these efforts at upcoming events in Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

South Dakotans may view their legislators’ votes on important legislation that AFP-SD tracked on the first-annual South Dakota Scorecard website.

AFP-SD State Director Don Haggar issued the following statement:

“Americans for Prosperity-South Dakota is excited to launch its first annual legislative scorecard that seeks to enhance transparency between lawmakers and their constituents. We applaud the hard-work that our legislators put into this year’s legislative session and look forward to continuing to work together to break down barriers for all South Dakotans.”

Background:

Votes included in the 2019 Legislative Key Vote Scorecard were announced to lawmakers through key vote alerts.

AFP-SD identified three different levels of recognition for lawmakers:

  • Recipients of the Torchbearer Award: both paved the way on important legislative reforms and kept an impeccable record on AFP-SD’s priority bills.
  • Policy Leaders: paved the way on important legislative reforms during this year’s session.
  • Legislative Champions: identified by lawmakers’ impeccable record on AFP-SD’s priority bills.

22 thoughts on “AFP-SD Launches First Annual Legislative Scorecard ”

  1. Rep. Borglum has some explaining to do. She ran as a conservative, but has flunked both the AFP and FHA scorecards. She has been going to Lincoln Day Dinners across the state like she is running for a statewide office, but her voting record isn’t nearly conservative enough to get through a primary.

    2. So what does it tell you about the Rapid City group, Citizens for Liberty, that they elected Borglum who flunked both AFP and FHA scorecards?

      It tells me there’s a lot of suckers in Rapid City.

  3. Can we rate AFP on being conservative, as they would get a failing grade it appears…

    standing with the ACLU…heck Nelson for all his fault never did that

  5. The rumor is there is a conservative group, that is encouraging Stace to run for US Senate or House.

    1. There’s always a group of Democrats calling themselves conservatives wanting to create chaos in the Republican primary. They always seem to find a few useful idiots to stir things up

    2. Yes, please! Mr. Nelson should run for the Senate or the House! Perhaps the House. Mr. Dusty would enjoy those debates.

    3. Highly support this idea! He’s lose and we wouldn’t have to respect any office he holds or listen to him.

      Stace is an outright loser in life. Maybe that’s why he’s so miserable and deadest on making the rest of us feel that way too.

      1. No it is an out of state organization. They may have a branch office in South Dakota but that is about it. It does the bidding for the Koch Brothers not South Dakotans.

  8. I don’t understand the opposition to allowing counties to raise taxes to build detention facilities. Isn’t that the business of the residents of that county?
    What does it cost a county, which does not have a jail, to have deputies chauffeuring detainees between their own county courthouse and a neighboring county’s jail? What do the host counties charge to keep another county’s detainees?
    If a given county commission decides it’s costing them way too much money and they could save money by building and staffing their own jail, isn’t that their business? If they are contemplating raising taxes to cover projected costs of sending detainees to neighboring counties, why shouldn’t they raise taxes in their own counties? If they study the problem and figure out that in the long run, their county will save money if they have their own jail, why is that any concern of AFP?

    1. Simple, it’s growing government and raising taxes.

      First, building more jails is just treating the symptom of our poor criminal justice system. We don’t need more jails in this state.

      Second, do you really think they would save money by building, staffing, and maintaining a new jail?

      A lot of the conservative movement, AFP included (Trump too), is moving away from the status quo “tough on crime” “lock ’em up” mentality. Allowing counties, that currently don’t have their own sales taxes, that new authority would move in the opposite direction.

      1. Isn’t the best government the local one? If the residents of unincorporated township decide its time to get incorporated, form their own township board, etc, would AFP complain about it being a “big government” move?
        At what point do they stop complaining about “big government?”
        At some point, the alternative to government is anarchy. Why not let counties govern themselves?

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