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Only one set of numbers really counts

So Billy S. asks in his inimitable style (you know, calling people a “dick” is the level of his political discourse) what I think of KELO’s poll numbers. At least now, they’re not online but, as I recall from this evening’s news, they were 50 percent “Yes” and 41 percent “No.”

I first heard about […]

No accountability in campaign finance report

South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-Chief Bill Stegmeier’s Judicial Accountability committee (a/k/a “the BS committee) has filed its pre-election campaign finance report. To say it makes interesting reading is an understatement. In fact, it might even border on a criminal reading.

Let’s start with the bottom line. The BS committee brought in $28,348.90 in contributions, of which $25,902.90, […]

J.A.I.L.’s Lies – Part 13

My turn on the op-ed pages came Tuesday. What appeared was a version of what began as another post in this series. It also could have been titled “J.A.I.L.’s Ultimate Lie.” For what it’s worth, what follows is the original draft of the post before I edited and rewrote it for submission to the local […]

Why we need E: “prison slave labor”

I think he’s done it. I think he’s really gone off the deep end.

South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-chief Bill Stegmeier bought a full page ad in the Sioux Falls Shopping News asking, “Why are Judges, Lawyers, and Politicians, opposed to Amendment E?” The answer? South Dakota Prison Industries “is the largest employer in the state” and […]

That handwriting is more clear

I’m not claiming to be prescient or anything like that but I want to point you to the concluding paragraph of one of my posts three weeks ago:

Can you see the handwriting on the wall? If and when Amendment E is defeated, Stegmeier and crew will point to this biased [Zogby] push poll and […]