Mickelson measure prohibiting out of state contributions to ballot question committees submitted over 18k signatures just now pic.twitter.com/URIoO7jXzG — Shantel Krebs (@SOSKrebs) November 6, 2017
And the money starts flowing in. Out of state group ‘Open Primaries’ is apparently sending a pile of cash to its South Dakota allies who want to prevent independents and third party candidates from making it to the November ballot by eliminating them in the June primary: A national nonprofit has pledged $140,000 to help […]
From the Argus Leader: If 2016 was the year out-of-state dollars poured into the state to influence votes on ballot initiatives and constitutional amendments, 2018 should be the year South Dakota decides to put a stop to that practice, Rep. Mark Mickelson said Monday night. After pushing an unsuccessful set of proposals in the Statehouse […]
The Liberal out-of-state Special Interest group Represent.US is back at it, attacking legislators who have the unfortunate task of cleaning up their legislation that was declared unconstitutional by Judge Barnett, and enjoined from taking effect. Seriously. Who has gotten a gold watch, all expenses paid vacation, or a million dollars form a lobbyist? That’s why […]
In my Sunday Argus this morning (which I get for the full week of online access, as well as the Sunday ad inserts, since the ads generally out number news) this full page advertisement appeared attacking newly elected Senate Majority Leader Blake Curd. The ad appears to come from out-of-state group Represent.us, the same one who […]
You know you’re dealing with out-of-staters in this instance. Because people from South Dakota would probably know who “John Daschle”… I mean “Tim Daschle”.. I mean they’d know who the guy on the right is.
Remember the 1.3 million raised from out-of-state sources that the Yes on Amendment V people are reporting? They’re quick to retort “Yeah, but Thune raises money from out-of-state.” So, morally, who is in the right? Friend of the blog Michael Wyland has an essay that was published today at “The Nonprofit Quarterly,” which delves into […]
From KELOland comes the story on how the liberal out-of-state interests have done their darnedest to try to but the election on Amendment V – Putting nearly 1.3 MILLION into the ballot measure which would hide party affiliation on the ballot, and to eliminate independents from the fall election: The campaign finance report — filed […]
Bob Mercer is reporting today on how the group calling itself the South Dakota Gun Owners (which is directed by a Colorado man) is pumping out-of-state dollars into several state legislative primary campaigns: The Rapid City-based organization known as South Dakota Gun Owners, which is not the National Rifle Association, has put a total of […]
Did I miss something? When I started reading the campaign finance report recently filed by Democrat Snake Oil salesman “Slick” Rick Weiland, who has been calling for a ballot measure and affiliated organization called “South Dakotans for Ethics Reform;” promoting removing PAC money from campaign finance, ethics reform, and empowering small donors, I swore I […]