HB 1069 is signed! IM22 is dead.

Pat Powers

From my mailbox:

Governor Signs House Bill 1069

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed House Bill 1069, An Act to repeal and revise certain provisions related to campaign finance and to declare an emergency. This bill repeals Initiated Measure 22.

“The circuit court enjoined Initiated Measure 22, finding it unconstitutional ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’ It has not been in effect, and it is extremely unlikely that it would ever come into effect,” said Gov. Daugaard. “For that reason, it makes sense to repeal this unconstitutional measure. Over the next few weeks, I will work with legislators to honor the will of the voters – by passing bills to regulate gifts from lobbyists and to strengthen ethics and campaign finance laws.” 

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29 thoughts on “HB 1069 is signed! IM22 is dead.”

  2. Props to the legislature and Governor for killing an unconstitutional measure pushed by outside provocateurs.

    1. Lemmings in the gallery cheerIng on the lemmings goIng over the cliff.

      2 years from now, look back and thank the decisive leadership of the three blind mice when the Democrats gain back numerous seats.

      The way 1069 was passed created a fund raising bonanza for the Dems and a billy club on those who helped push it through.

      3. Been paying visits to pot shops in Colorado? Fundraising bonanza for Dems??? Baaaaahahahahahahaha!

  3. Thanks to our Governor and legislators for dealing with this issue. There were a large amount of ill-informed knee-jerk reactionists that had no idea what the bill was about, or more likely, didn’t want to understand what the bill was about.

  4. Now that IM22 is officially dead, the question turns to whether the Legislature will proceed with rational, constitutional ethics reform. If the alternative bills currently under consideration all die a quiet death, or something toothless passes, it will provide ammunition for IM22 advocates and a new entree for Represent.Us to attack from a different angle.

    1. There will be nothing rational about it. I got into an argument on Facebook with somebody who insisted that South Dakota has had absolutely no campaign finance laws at all. He really believed this.
      I had fun posting a screen shot of the SOS email about year-end campaign finance reports and asked if we have No campaign finance laws why was I required to do this every year?
      Because it is something of a pain, although much easier now that we can do them online.

      Legislators confronted with angry mobs complaining about our lack of campaign finance laws should take their campaign finance reports with them, perhaps distribute copies, and ask the people “if we have had no campaign finance laws why did I have to file this with the Secretary of State?”

      2. Hey Tara, what brand were those gold watches everybody got, and are they selling them on eBay?
        Shouldn’t you be monitoring this?

        1. Anne it’s not the watches it’s the 40 years of one party establishment. Come on it’s time to drain the swamp.

        2. lol. Anne, what really needs to be monitored is the EB-5, Mid Central and those 7 deaths.

      3. Who, the socialists? Why not do us a favor and move to where others already agree with your socialist viewpoints? Why do liberals always have to pee in every swimming pool?

  5. I think the organizers messed up big time… if they REALLY wanted this to pass, they should have introduced it as a constitutional amendment, not an initiated measure. That would have taken away the argument that it was unconstitutional because, hey, it’s part of the state constitution now!

    The cynical part of me thinks they introduced this as an IM in the hopes the Legislature would vote it down and so they could have ammunition come 2018.

    But as Dennis Miller says, “That’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.”

    1. It is hard to understand the mental state of people who think every outcome they don’t like is evidence of corruption or conspiracy.

      1. I didn’t vote for it myself, the idea of publicly-funded elections was way too much for me. I’m just looking at it from an impartial point of view.

  6. Did those who voted for IM 22 even know what was in it at all, other than it was supposed to cure all corruption in SD? I don’t think so. Did they understand the “democracy credit” part? I don’t think so. Did they realize that it would not have prevented Gear Up or EB5 problems? No; I think that’s why it passed. I personally believe that most all legislators that we elect in SD are good people simply trying to do the right thing as they see it and they are not corrupt, crooked, or evil; those who supported this must have believed that anyone sent to Pierre was being bought, was lying, etc; and that is ridiculous; but if they didn’t feel this way, what in the world did they think the purpose of IM 22 was? As it is, the only one who did lie about it, received a lot of money to support it, and thus is corruptible and can be bought, is its sponsor!

    1. by now it is apparent that the South Dakota legislature has been infiltrated by reptilians and aliens who are going to dose us with mind-controlling drugs via chemtrails and vaccines. Those gold watches are really telecommunication devices through which they get their orders from the Mothership.

  7. Rick should Thank the legislature. Ironically, this means he’ll continue to get paid by the out state, dark money people.

    Weiland for SDDP chair!

    1. You can believe CNN Fake news

      I will believe Judge Barnett the ruling judge would said the word UNCONSTITUTIONAL himself

  10. Ms. Beal,
    Don’t know about gold watches, but Douglas School District sells its surplused computers to employees for $25 and they sell them on Craiglsist and eBay for $250. That is only a few $10,000’s, but what do they skim off in other ways?
    If the administrators and employees are deserving, then be upfront and involve the taxpayers who are funding it.

    1. What does the entrepreneurial activity of Douglas School District employees have to do with IM 22?
      IM 22 had nothing to do with Gear Up or EB5, and it certainly had nothing to do with school district rummage sales.

      Told y’all there was nothing rational about this.
      Aliens. Ancient astronaut theorists believe it was aliens.

  11. What is irrational about objecting to School Business Managers using their authority to bypass State Law and sell at stupidly low prices to friends and relatives? Schools do not have “rummage” sales and we taxpayers are not here to support financially, their staff’s “entrepreneurial activities” selling items we bought for Students.
    What Douglas did amounts to embezzlement and/or theft, and violates the mission given to them by taxpayers when they were hired. That is what voters sought to address with IM22, EXACTLY!

    “I didn’t steal it you Honor, someone secretly sold it to me for a few cents and I had a rummage sale on Craigslist” …”I’m an entrepreneur!… with a GREAT supplier”.

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