Three of every four dollars spent on Open Primary measure coming from out of state group

Pat Powers

The Open Primaries group, which hopes to keep those pesky independent and third party candidates from cluttering the fall ballot (by eliminating them in the summer) has filed their year end campaign finance report.

And it certainly shows that once again, this is not a local effort:

Open Primaries 2017 Year End Campaign Finance Report by Pat Powers on Scribd

Locally, the group raised $45,000, with over half of that (28K) coming from sponsor and rich guy Joe Kirby. But the lion’s share came from out-of-state group Open Primaries, Inc, who put in $155,000 towards the ballot.

So, 22% of what they raised came locally, and 78% from one single group, out of state.

6 thoughts on “Three of every four dollars spent on Open Primary measure coming from out of state group”

  1. If it makes the ballot VOTE NO!

    Democrats can’t win so they are just trying to change the rules like last year.

  2. Hey! Wanna know what’s super cool about our ballot? No matter how the measure gets there, South Dakotans get the final say! Isn’t that so rad? Last time I checked, Open Primaries Inc, Harvey Nichols, and anyone else from out of state doesn’t get to vote in our elections. Thank goodness our democracy is protected it literally it’s most fundamental level.

    1. Not if no one hears the opposition to this junk they are proposing like how awful Marcy’s Law was…everyone bought into “It’s for Victim’s rights” and did not have $1M to tell why it was going to cost our state a lot of money for little actual rights that we didn’t already have on the books.

    2. They don’t vote but their money buys a lot of influence for those voters that rely on soundbites when they enter the voting booth. Out of state interests should leave their money in their own state, period.

  3. Funny – I was convinced to vote against Marsy’s Law the moment I read (and every single time it was reported on afterwards) the the State Bar and most state attorneys opposed it. I don’t recall that information being tough to locate. Guess most South Dakotans must not have agreed, which – shocker! – happens from time to time.

  4. I hope that this does not cause anyone else to think that the ban on out-of-state money, which is in its latest incarnation IM 24, is a good idea. Free speech is a fundamental right that should not be violated simply because people do not like what is being sad or by whom it is being said.

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