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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 […]

Awaiting that campaign finance report

With today being the deadline for pre-election campaign finance reports, it will be interesting to see if and when the state gets a report from “South Dakotan’s (sic) for Amendment E.”

As I’ve pointed out before, state law requires any “ballot question committee” to file campaign finance reports. That term is defined as “any two […]

E as in rhymes with hypocrisy

PP stays up later than I do so he picked up on South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-chief Bill Stegmeier’s lawsuit against the No on E Committee. PP makes several good points but in looking at the pleadings, something jumped out at me.

You may recall that the Amendment E people have taken to holding up a ruling […]

“Amendment E based on a lie”

The Rapid City Journal certainly pulled no punches with its editorial today urging a “No” vote on Amendment E. And the Journal nailed the J.A.I.L.ers in an area they’ve been skating around since the measure made it to the ballot.

The editorial says:

Supporters of the judicial accountability law say judges in South Dakota need […]