In the race for Sioux Falls’s At Large City Council position, this week incumbent City Councilperson Theresa Stehly has finally filed a campaign finance report, which claims she’s raised nothing and spent nothing. (It’s unclear what period this is for, since she missed the checkbox explaining what the report was for). 2 28 2020 Citizens […]
New Law Finally Puts Illegal Robocallers on Notice By Sen. John Thune If you’re a Seinfeld fan like me, you probably remember the episode where Jerry receives a phone call from a telemarketer, interrupting his conversation with other characters on the show. Jerry tells the person on the other end of the line that he’s […]
Dialing in on Robocall Scammers By Sen. John Thune After the Senate recently passed my TRACED Act, bipartisan legislation that targets people who are behind illegal and abusive robocalls, I joked that if a Packers fan and a Patriots fan can work together (I teamed up with Sen. Ed Markey from Massachusetts), there’s hope for […]
Hanging Up on the Robocall Scourge By Sen. John Thune Believe it or not, there’s a bill in Washington that’s sponsored by a conservative Republican and a liberal Democrat; cosponsored by more than half of the Senate; supported by every single state attorney general in the nation, including South Dakota’s; and embraced by all commissioners […]
Ahead of Upcoming Hearing, Thune Discusses His Bill to Stop Robocall Scammers “I’m pleased that this bipartisan legislation has been embraced by all 50 state attorneys general, by the commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, and by major industry associations and leading consumer groups.” WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune […]
The lawsuit filed long ago against the persons alleged to be involved in illegal robocalls was dismissed late last week on a technicality by the judge hearing the case, but the principals involved in the case indicated that they may appeal: Second Circuit Court Judge Mark Salter in his order filed Monday said he decided […]
Consumers to Robocallers: Enough Is Enough By Sen. John Thune I think we can all agree that there’s at least one thing more annoying than having snow on the ground in mid-April: receiving an abusive or illegal robocall. And it doesn’t matter if it’s April or September, there’s never a good time to receive one. […]
The allegedly “non-partisan” League of Women Voters has been blasting out a particularly partisan message against Amendment V via robocalls across South Dakota. Take a listen: The South Dakota League of Women Voters is a branch of the national “non-partisan” group. So, in addition to hiding political affiliation, what other issues are they taking on? […]
Yesterday, he was blasting out a negative Robocall. But today., Stace Nelson’s attorney R. Shawn Tornow was in a courtroom trying to stop a lawsuit against Nelson and his indicted co-conspirator Dan Willard for a Robocall that took place three years ago. Unfortunately for Nelson, the case is proceeding forward. I’m told attorneys representing Rushmore […]
Just received this from a District 19 reader who was unfortunate enough to receive this Robocall over the dinner hour from State Senate Stace Nelson. They described it as “angry, and not just a little bizarre” going into the last day of campaigning before the vote on June 7th: Ironically, I’m told that Monday there […]