I had promised to post the vote on Senate Bill 40 this last week, and then I flew to the east coast for a visit to my daughter, so I wanted to get back to the topic.
As of this writing, SB 40 will go to the House State Affairs committee in the coming days. It may be a while, as the House is supposedly going to take a look at reworking it to make it more palatable, as it was a close vote in the Senate. Stay tuned for more on this.
Like make Dems run in primaries also?
Yep, this is the Dems fault too, damn them!
It’s a very interesting issue. The state Republican Party has declared its opposition. The insaner of Republicans believe that Republican legislators are required to follow the party’s orders, and will lose their minds if their legislators don’t do as they are told. The Republicans who understand civics know that once in office, elected officials represent all their constituents, not just the ones who gave them money.
Get the popcorn ready
Folks had better think very hard on this one.
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Thing is .. if there is a legitimate reason why there is so much consternation in the party, this kind of rules change backfires.
Casting people like me as Godless hun at the gate or whackadoodle is a moron’s errand.
To chastise and avoid a backfire one must have high ground!
You are correct to point out how the relationship changes; very insightful!
It’s not that Haugaard would have been that bad.
It’s that Rhoden’s friends would have been angry to lose bragging rights and influence in Pierre, who would have then used their money, power, and influence to prick their networks to make life less fun (childish)? The opposite of what a good civic minded Republican should do?
The thing about not playing it straight is it’s a short term strategy.
I think the political capital being spent now was accumulated by forward thinking people who understood long term thinking.
It’s good when these kinds of bills get proposed, though.
You can see everyone and what needs work.
On the tip of every South Dakota Senator’s tongue should be, “will I be proud of this 100 years from now?”
In the future (the future is now) historical forensics heuristics coupled with AI will be able to review the entire record of private and public emails, recorded conversations, and officially submitted comments to understand who might have been responsible for what.
The legalities are questionable of using the communications while people are still alive, while the moralities of collecting the communications without knowledge of people is being swept under the rug.
When someone says, “it’s not a fair game”, I think that some people don’t know or believe that everything is recoroded.
EVERYTHING.
Every nose pick.
Every flatus.
If your conversations aren’t currently within the boundaries of policy and law, don’t worry.
The boundaries of policy and law are quickly moving, and it will likely move over your past communications which can be used to condemn and excommunicate you from marketplaces without due process.
If the SD Senate majority never truly cared about the rule of law, but managed to keep that a secret for decades, can it de-cloak itself without a quick sanitation?
Again, I like these kinds of bills.
They are helpful in decision making.
That is all.
yes very helpful in decision making. We will find out who listens to all their constituents and who “dances with the one that brung ’em.”
Because it’s pretty obvious this is coming down to a disagreement as to who is better at choosing nominees, the primary voters or the convention delegates?
Have some crayons ready to serve with that popcorn!
Hopefully the SD House amends this giving the Governor candidate his or her pick of whomever they want as Lt Gov without a convention tragedy upsetting that pairing and leave the rest of one on one constitutional offices alone. No need to follow the Senates nuclear option here.