Posts Tagged ‘South Dakota’
SD AG Marty Jackley’s Closing Argument
Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:36 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 27 October 2010 12:51
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SD: Attorney General Investigating Democrats’ Early-Vote Rallies
Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:16 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 20 October 2010 01:15
From the ArgusLeader.com:
South Dakota’s top law enforcement official confirmed today that his office is investigating whether three rallies held by Democrats last week violated state law by offering people food in exchange for a chance to cast early ballots.
The state Republican Party filed a complaint with Attorney General Marty Jackley’s office last week after reports that Democrats planned to hold “feeds” on three reservations. Democrats advertised the feeds as an opportunity for voters to get something to eat, followed by the chance to be transported by volunteers to polling places for early voting.
“The state has received various complaints about offering of food in exchange for or to induce voting,” Jackley said. “We are treating the matter under our normal procedure of accepting any information, and making further determinations as the facts or evidence may justify.”
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SD: Secretary of State Hopefuls Take the Stage
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 10:27 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 23 September 2010 01:54
From capjournal.com:
The audience of 15 at the Secretary of State candidate forum on Wednesday got some good background on the candidates, but little information on where they stand on issues.
GOP nominee Jason Gant, Democrat Ben Nesselhuf and Constitution Party runner Lori Stacey appeared at the question-answer event sponsored by the Pierre Young Professionals.
Nesselhuf and Gant agreed on most topics during the evening, while Stacey advocated the elimination of electronic voting machines, revamping the state’s petition process and claimed that she was one of the people that created the Tea Party political movement “years before it was popular.”
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South Dakota Enters Immigration Debate
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 11:58 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:01
From Rapid City Journal:
South Dakota is joining other states in filing a legal brief that backs Arizona’s immigration law, Gov. Mike Rounds and Attorney General Marty Jackley said Tuesday.
South Dakota will support state governments’ joint authority with federal officials to enforce immigration laws, the two Republican officials said.
The state will not be a party in the U.S. Justice Department’s challenge of the Arizona law but will join other states in filing a “friend of the court” brief, Jackley said. Michigan is taking the lead in that effort, so South Dakota likely will bear no costs as it acts in a supporting and advisory role, he said.
The Arizona law, which would take effect July 29, would require state and local police to question and possibly arrest illegal immigrants during the enforcement of other laws such as traffic stops. Opponents have said the law will lead to racial profiling.
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SD: GOP Picks SoS Candidate; Finalizes Ballot
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:12 Written by rslcpol Friday, 2 July 2010 09:04
From Fairfield Citizen:
Both major parties firmed up their candidate lineups for the November general elections Saturday at their state conventions.
State Sen. Jason Gant of Sioux Falls won a three-way battle for the South Dakota Republican Party’s nomination to run for secretary of state.
Gant, 33, won the nomination on the second ballot, defeating Deputy Secretary of State Teresa Bray and state Rep. Tom Deadrick of Platte.
Gant and other Republicans said they’re worried that the Democratic candidate, state Sen. Ben Nesselhuf of Vermillion, would weaken controls on voting by allowing registration on Election Day and doing away with some voter identification requirements.
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SD: Attorney General Race takes Shape
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:37 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:41
From ArgusLeader.com:
A rescheduled murder trial has forced Beadle County State’s Attorney Mike Moore to abandon his plans to run for attorney general in November.
That probably leaves the field to two candidates – Huron lawyer and former state lawmaker Ron Volesky on the Democratic side and present Attorney General Marty Jackley on the Republican side.
Both Volesky and Jackley will seek their parties’ nominations at the state conventions next week.
Jackley, a former U.S. attorney for South Dakota, starts off with the advantage of incumbency. Gov. Mike Rounds appointed him to the seat after former Attorney General Larry Long took a post as a circuit court judge.
Jackley has won the endorsements of 65 of 66 state’s attorneys, and he was a fixture on the Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner circuit. He said he’s been concentrating on the work that needs to be done in the office and letting politics take care of itself. He’s heard of no other names in GOP circles that might challenge him at the convention.
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SD: GOP Lt. Governor Leads in Governor Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:37 Written by rslcpol Wednesday, 16 June 2010 12:38
From RapidCityJournal.com:
South Dakota Lt. Gov. Dennis Daugaard, coming off his Republican primary win last week, continues to hold a commanding lead over Democratic challenger Scott Heidepriem in the gubernatorial race in South Dakota.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Daugaard earning 52 percent of the vote, while state Sen. Heidepriem, D-Sioux Falls, picks up 36 percent of the support. Three percent prefer some other candidate, and 9 percent are undecided.
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SD: Lt. Governor Leads Fundraising in Governor’s Race
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:55 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 1 June 2010 01:18
From Rapid City Journal:
In a race defined early on by money raised, Lt. Gov. Dennis Daugaard heads a pack of five GOP candidates into the final nine days of a gubernatorial primary campaign he has led from the start.
Daugaard raised about $400,000 in 2007, before any of the other four candidates had even filed papers to officially begin their campaigns. He raised another $500,000 in 2008 and $750,000 in 2009.
That is a substantial take for a South Dakota governor’s race leading up to the election year. It more than doubled the $700,000 raised by the end of 2009 by state Sen. Dave Knudson, R-Sioux Falls, and is even farther ahead of the other three candidates — state Sen. Gordon Howie, R-Rapid City, rancher Ken Knuppe of Buffalo Gap and former Brookings Mayor Scott Munsterman.
Much of the lieutenant governor’s funding has come from prominent Republicans, including cabinet members, who had also donated to Gov. Mike Rounds. The governor added weight to the cash connection with his endorsement of his lieutenant governor, whom Rounds predicted as his successor in casual comments to a Rapid City Journal reporter three years ago.
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SD: AG says Health Insurance Mandate is Illegal
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 12:59 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 27 May 2010 01:19
From ArgusLeader.com:
South Dakota’s role in a challenge to the federal health reform bill might help solve a legal question on the power of government, but it also might jeopardize a key source of money for making reform work.
South Dakota is one of 19 states arguing that the federal government has no authority to force citizens to buy health insurance, as the new law requires.
“If we allow the government to do this with health insurance, what’s to say they can’t make you buy any product?” asked Marty Jackley, state attorney general.
A hearing on whether the Constitution allows such a requirement, called the individual mandate, will be Sept. 14 in a federal courtroom in Florida.
Most Americans already have health coverage. Those who don’t must buy insurance beginning in 2014, at perhaps $2,000 to $3,000 a year, or else face annual penalties reaching $700 or more. The mandate will bring new money into the insurance pool to help pay for other elements of the reform.
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South Dakota Supporting Montana Gun Rights Lawsuit
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:50 Written by rslcpol Friday, 9 April 2010 01:48
From SiouxCityJournal.com:
South Dakota is supporting Montana in a lawsuit over its right to regulate firearms.
A bill passed by the South Dakota Legislature and signed by the governor this year says the federal government can’t regulate guns that are made and sold within South Dakota. It’s patterned after a Montana law that’s the subject of a pending federal lawsuit.
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