South Dakota Legislature takes Rick Weiland to task for lying about IM28 language to media

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The leaders of the South Dakota State Legislature have issued a letter today to Initiated Measure 28 sponsor Rick Weiland about mischaracterizations he’s making to the media about the South Dakota Legislative Research Council supposedly approving language he used in the measure – when it couldn’t be farther from fact. In a letter from Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck and Speaker of the House Hugh Bartels:

Letter to Weiland Re IM 28 by Pat Powers on Scribd

In several interactions with the media and public on IM 28, you have attributed your proposed language to being based on LRC recommendations contained in the LRC’s review from December 2, 2022. Most recently, you stated that the “human consumption” language came “on advice from the South Dakota Legislative Research Council.” You have also been quoted in another article stating that same thing.

and..

The second reason we are asking you to refrain from stating that the LRC advised you to use the phrase “anything sold for human consumption” is because the LRC did not recommend using that language. In fact, the LRC recommended something entirely different than the language you are sponsoring and that will be on the November ballot.

Not a lot of ambiguity there.

Read the entire letter to make a call for yourself as to the degree of untruth and misinformation contained in the IM28 Ballot Measure advertising.

11 thoughts on “South Dakota Legislature takes Rick Weiland to task for lying about IM28 language to media”

  1. A State Income on Noem’s watch would be the beginning of the end for her in South Dakota.

    Noem should have pushed harder last session for the bill on the table instead of this nonsense bill brought this year.

    1. ~ A State Income on Noem’s watch would be the beginning of the end for her in South Dakota. ~

      Sour grapes much? She has held the highest office in SD. Can’t go any higher than that.

      She is a great governor.

  2. There has been misinformation on
    IM 28.
    Leaders Bartel & Schoenbeck explain
    the reasons to vote No on IM.28.
    Senate elect Carl & Sheryl voted NO
    on IM 28.
    Your vote matters!

    1. Carl, how was the black nazi dinner in Sioux Falls with Toby?

      Did you have to pay the $250, or just sell your soul to attend?

  3. To be clear, the letter doesn’t take a position on the ballot issue. It asks the sponsor to refrain from making misstatements involving the work of our staff

  4. Best evidence yet that the drafters main goal was to force an income tax on SD. Whinny Weiland was told how to do what he claimed he wanted to do. WW rejected that advice, he pushed the language he wanted and then denied that it was his language!

  6. No way in hell can Ricky win a SD statewide election, so now he’s the king of ballot measures.
    Table for 3 please.

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