From Twitter, Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch is lamenting legal action that has been initiated to compel disclosure of House members who signed off to call a special session for purposes of impeachment:
Why is the Argus Leader, South Dakota Newspaper Association, and KELO suing the hard working men and women of the LRC when it was my decision to keep the Ravsnborg Spec Ses correspondence confidential? If you want to come after someone, come after the one who made the decision. pic.twitter.com/L6ZKlEJZ8t
— Spencer Gosch (@SpencerGosch) November 20, 2021
IsLRC the custodian?
I’m not sure Spencer knows how the legal system works…
The Speaker of The South Dakota House of Representatives has every right under current South Dakota Statutes to keep any vote by members present hidden from public scrutiny. If you don’t like the current rules then try changing them before calling foul on a process which has run smoothly for dozens and hundreds of years. This enables a process of legislative leadership intuitive upon ranking by an extremely close, almost familiar styled organizational skill set not seen in any other business type based upon profit usually. The process of good Government is one akin to making good sausage. That being the final product is much more easily swallowed than the transformation.
That may be, Charlie. But if you think otherwise, the way to find out is to request the records and, if the request is denied, appeal the decision. And you make that request to the custodian of the records, and that’s LRC.
The Argus is doing exactly the right thing to eventually let a judge decide if the speaker had the right to keep this list secret or not, and everyone will eventually abide by that decision. I don’t understand why the speaker is so indignant that sometime would avail themselves of that process.
Exactly correct. Which is the process the Court was referring to when they said the media had requested the wrong remedy and denied the Writ of Mandamus a few weeks back.
If the Speaker wants to blame somebody, blame the Legislature for passing the open meeting law. Oh, wait . . .
This should be changed. It seems the people should be informed of the actions of their legislators. After all, they are supposedly acting in their behalf.
This seems like Ravnsborg would want to know if the impeachment was legitimate.
Why is Spencer afraid of a little sunshine? Make the list public.
One would think Ravnsborg would want to see that it’s a legit process.
Weren’t senators just telling GOAC not to have any sunshine?
https://news.yahoo.com/senators-dont-want-former-appraiser-215504785.html
Who needs sunshine?
The gov hunt list is no longer public after Daugaard opened it up.
SD was once called the sunshine state.