Please see two of my endorsements below from Stand for Health Freedom and the South Dakota Freedom Caucus. It is all about FREEDOM! It is a huge honor to have Freedom Organizations support me in this race for state senate. Please vote for FREEDOM on June 2nd! God Bless!
In South Dakota, we pride ourselves on local control. However, there is a dark side to “local control” when it manifests as Special Purpose Districts (Road, Sanitary, Irrigation). These districts were designed to give neighbors a way to manage shared infrastructure, but the laws governing them—specifically SDCL 31-12A—have created a constitutional crisis in our rural…
Was looking at my county’s State’s Attorney website and looked at a few others for comparison. Most of the counties have the same text on their webpage. And that’s cool. Butte County has the same text twice. Again, totally cool. Minnehaha County’s State’s Attorney webpage is friendly. Same basic text, but a pic of the…
In South Dakota, the “Closed Loop” often relies on technical confusion to keep people out of court. Regarding Small Claims, there is a significant distinction between the Clerk of Courts and the Judge that the board’s lawyer likely used to get your case dismissed. 1. The Clerk’s Role: Procedural Acceptance In South Dakota, the Clerk…
This is a list of county audits you may be interested in. I was not very surprised to see that my own county, when audited, did not do well. My county director of finance, or whatever her title is, clearly is not following the law and hasn’t been for a couple audits now. Not sure…
Current Law is Unfair and Outdated South Dakota law (SDCL 31-12A-10) gives agricultural landowners only a one-time 60-day window to opt out when a road district is first formed. After that, there is no practical way for a farm, ranch, or nursery to leave the district — even if the land has been in legitimate…
is fighting tooth and nail to keep body and dashcam video from being considered pubic record. Of course it is public record, as so many other states have decided, but not South Dakota. Here we have legislators who will tell you they are strong advocates of government transparency. And then they will just stop discussing…