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SD Dist 11 State Senate Gen Election: Stalzer and Cool

SD Dist 11 State Senate Gen Election: Stalzer and Cool

SD Legislative District 11. Screenshot of map from SD LRC website on 5/13/16. South Dakota legislative District 11 has  a general election for State Senate. District 11 has part of West Sioux Falls and then some area west of Sioux Falls. The incumbent Sen David Omdahl is not seeking reelection. Republican Rep Jim Stalzer decided to switch over to the Senate to run for this seat. Tom Cool is in…

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House State Affairs has 5 bills on Fri Feb 19, Article V compact, ABLE accounts, and new pistol permit

House State Affairs has 5 bills on Fri Feb 19, Article V compact, ABLE accounts, and new pistol permit

On Friday, February 19, at 7:45 am the SD House State Affairs committee will take on 5 bills. This is compiled using the agenda at the time of composing this post. Agendas can and do change! One way to listen to these meetings live is via the audio links on the Schedule page of the LRC website. While there you can also view the status board for the meetings as they are going on. HB…

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A look at the South Dakota 2015 Freedom Index

A look at the South Dakota 2015 Freedom Index

Earlier this week the South Dakota Freedom Coalition released the South Dakota 2015 Freedom Index (click the link to download as PDF). Freedom is an obvious topic for me, so I thought it would be worthy to look at this years freedom index bill by bill. The index scores ten votes for the SD State Senate and SD State House. Eight of the votes are the same for each chamber. There are also two votes…

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Senate State Affairs has six bills on Fri Feb 6

On Friday, February 6th, at 9:00 AM the SD Senate State Affairs committee will take on 6 bills.

They moved this meeting to an earlier time and different room. With the bills being taken up I’m not sure there will be enough time for this lineup.

SB 1 – SoDakLiberty Posts – Finance improvements on the public highways and bridges by establishing or increasing the motor vehicle excise tax, taxes on…

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Article V bills before the House State Affairs committee on Jan 26

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On Monday, January 26th, the House State Affairs committee will take up two bills. Both of these bills are in regards to an Article V convention of the states. A year ago I wrote a post trying to get people to understand an Article V Constitutional Convention is not the way to fix problem in DC. My thoughts have not changed since that time. Yesterday at the Aberdeen…

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