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Brown County Democrats Front Porch Conversation with District 1 legislators On Thursday, February 11, the Brown County Democrats held another Front Porch Conversation in Aberdeen. This forum highlighted the three Democrat legislators representing District 1:
A few words with Rep Steven McCleerey at the Brown County Fair
A few words with Rep Steven McCleerey at the Brown County Fair
Rep Steven McCleerey at the Brown County Fair. Photo by Ken Santema 08/12/15 Over the next few weeks I will be posting short interviews with local state-level elected officials I ran into at the Brown County Fair. None of these were in-depth, they were just a chance to catch up with some elected representatives. Actually I started this series last week with my post about Rep Dennis Feickert (D,…
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A few words with Rep Dennis Feickert about the County Government Interim Committee meeting today and tomorrow
A few words with Rep Dennis Feickert about the County Government Interim Committee meeting today and tomorrow
Rep Dennis Feickert speaking on the SD House floor. Photo by Ken Santema 02/25/15 Today (Aug 19) and tomorrow (Aug 20) the County Government Interim Committee is meeting in Pierre. With the Blue Ribbon Task Force looking into education this committee will probably get little attention. But, I find it odd funding about education can be discussed without talking about county government funding.…
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Ag Land Assessment Task Force meeting on Monday, July 20
Ag Land Assessment Task Force meeting on Monday, July 20
Land in west river SD. Photo by Ken Santema 07/12/15 On Monday, July 20, the Agricultural Land Assessment Implementation and Oversight Advisory Task Force will have its first meeting in Pierre. The agenda for the meeting can be found here. Ag Land Assessment has been a huge issue each year in Pierre, and will likely continue to be. In the 2015 session there was an attempt to “Make an…
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Senate Transportation committee has 2 bills on Fri Feb 20
On Thursday, February 20th, at 9:00 AM the SD Senate Transportation committee will take on 2 bills.
** This meeting is important. Next Tuesday is the last opportunity for committees to get the bills from their chamber moved on to the floor. This committee does not have a scheduled committee meeting until next Wednesday.
SB 185 – SoDakLiberty Posts – Increase the motor vehicle excise tax rate and…
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SD 2014: District 1 is blue, no general election for legislative races
South Dakota Legislative District 1
This will be the first in a series of thirty-five posts looking at the SD legislative races going into Election Day 2014. To start the series I will look at District 1. This district is a very blue district, no Republicans were even found to run for a legislative seat. The district includes Day, Marshall, and Roberts counties; plus a weird N-NW portion of Brown…
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Legislators petition Johnson on Glass-Steagall
A bipartisan group of South Dakota legislators asked Sen. Tim Johnson to hold "immediate, emergency hearings" about reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, a repealed 1933 law that, among other things, separated commercial banks and investment banks.
"There is strong support for the Glass-Steagall Bills in the Senate and the House," the petition reads. "Our people are facing economic and social ruin. The collapse of Detroit, which used to be the U.S. arsenal of democracy, is the handwriting on the wall for economic ruin across our once strong United States."
It's signed by an interesting mix of Democrats and conservative Republicans. Democratic signers include Jim Bradford, Jason Frerichs, Dennis Feickert, Kevin Killer, Dean Schrempp and former lawmaker Frank Kloucek. Republican signers are Tim Begalka, Ryan Maher, Stace Nelson, Betty Olson, and former lawmakers Patty Miller and Lyndell Petersen (whose name is misspelled "Peterson").
Momentum for the call came from the successful passage this year of a joint resolution supporting reinstating Glass-Steagal. Senate Concurrent Resolution 6 narrowly passed the state Senate 19-16, but overwhelmingly passed the House 67-2.
The petition was released to the press by activist Tim Luke.
But Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, isn't interested in revisiting Glass-Steagall.
"Throughout my Chairmanship on the Banking Committee I have made oversight of Wall Street reform a top priority and have held a number of hearings on this issue of systemic risk – most recently on July 11," Johnson said in a statement. "We have learned at those hearings that most economists say a return to Glass-Steagall would not address today’s challenges. Size, risk and complexity are not synonymous, and I believe Wall Street Reform passed by Congress in 2010 provides the tools necessary to end ‘too big to fail.’"
