The South Dakota Legislature continues to propose meddling with the people’s right to initiative and referendum, as State Representative Tina Mulally has introduced HJR 5004 this week to double the signatures needed to get initiated measures on the ballot, and raising the number required to bring a constitutional amendment by half again:
You would think that Tina has something against the people bringing measures for a vote of the public?
The measure is co-sponsored by Rep’s Aylward and Rice, and Senators Lauren Nelson, Tom Pischke, and Carl Perry, because he’ll add his name to anything.
Here we go again. Legislators doing everything they can to interfere with the public’s right to decide issues directly. They never stop putting up barriers for these initiatives.
Under God, the people rule. The folks in Pierre need to learn to get out of our way.
This is obviously terrible policy, and an outright power grab by some members of the Legislature. Please contact your legislators and urge them to vote against this travesty!
How about raising the number of signatures need to be on the ballot for any elected position in state governemnt to 50% + 1 of eligible voters in your district.
Send them to Pierre only to have them try to eliminate the voters that sent them
Add the requirement that they have to be fully vaccinated with verification.
Everything thing the far right does is against the voice of the people and for self preservation of their power.
Very anti democratic .
-They don’t want the people to vote for constitutional officers.
-They don’t want open primaries.
They want the “Party” to control everything.
It is good you are piping up now. Where were you and your fellows back when the inaners amongst us were being voted into the (R) slots with a 17% turnout? Rally your road dogs and get ready for a real Conservatives with Common Sense thump-back the next go-round, right?
The Authoritarians/ Fascists.
But they are the party of law and order Just ask those 1500+ that got pardoned
Under God, the people rule in SD.
Under God a majority of the 17% who voted in the primary rule.
No. The People just Rule. There is no god.
You put your god in grudznick’s government and I’ll put my government in your church. Get ready for that Coven party.
Are we missing the hypocrisy here? She’s one of the “we the people “ crowd. Yelling about transparency and how the government answers to the people, etc. except when they get elected they don’t want people they disagree with being able to change things that they don’t want changed.
It should be really really hard to get garbage measures on the ballot.
Unfortunately most voters are complacent and don’t follow what’s going on in Pierre.
The word needs to get out. On FB, newspapers, etc. The same 10 people pitching about it to each other is ineffective
how much more of this are we going to tolerate? RL 21 was presented as a way to stop the CO2 pipeline. That wasn’t what a No vote did at all, and all Summit had to do was sit down and shut up until the votes were counted.
Every ballot measure vote we have had has been influenced by misleading advertising, so maybe this latest round, where people thought they were voting against the pipeline but they weren’t, will make people wake up.
That’s a very optimistic view.
Until these legislators start seeing seats turn over and understand voter intolerance of their nonsense.. things won’t get any better
Think about it though, how close did we come to amending the state constitution to not only allow abortion but to forbid the legislature (and by inference, the department of health) to impose any regulation on the “effectuation” of a woman’s decision to have a first-trimester abortion. This wording suggested there would be no Department of Health inspection of the facilities or the cleanliness of the instruments used, or the training and credentialing of the providers.
The proponents actually claimed such a mess would be beneficial for women’s health, and 176,809 people voted for it..
I hope if the pro-abortion fools try this again, they will at least comprehend the importance of using clean coat-hangers.