South Dakota GOP Rushes To Repeal Ethics Reforms Passed By Voters
Source: MSN/Huffington Post
WASHINGTON ― Republican lawmakers in South Dakota are ready to declare a legislative emergency so that they quickly and completely wipe out an ethics and campaign finance reform law adopted by popular vote in November.
The measure, known as IM-22, passed with 52 percent of the vote. It is supposed to create an independent commission to oversee investigations into ethical misconduct by elected officials, impose tougher limits on campaign contributions and lobbyists’ gifts to lawmakers, place restrictions on lawmakers becoming lobbyists, increase disclosure by independent political groups, and set up a system to publicly finance elections.
Republican lawmakers from Gov. Dennis Daugaard to state Senate Majority Leader Blake Curd came out against the initiative before the election. The opposition was heavily funded by the South Dakota chapter of Americans for Prosperity, the largest advocacy arm of the conservative political machine run by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
After its passage, Daugaard called the law a “mess” and claimed that voters were “hoodwinked” by out-of-state actors. He vowed to repeal it if it wasn’t struck down in the courts. Curd called the passage of the law “a constitutional crisis in our state” because, he said, it makes “de-facto criminals out of every elected office holder” and gives those officials “only two choices: resign the office and abandon the voters or remain and commit a crime.”
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GOPervs intend for it all to serve the interests of the 1% and its lackeys.
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he is just like John McCain, when it came to the sacred land down in Arizona, that the Navajo wanted protected.
Thune and this crowd keep forgetting that the Black Hills are sacred land and under the treaties 1846, 1876, and are to be treated as such, Custer State Park is part of the Black Hills and the Needles section of that Mountains .
And to jump over to Pine Ridge, what exactly has he done for the Indigenous People on the reservation, it has the highest per capital unemployment rate in the country, highest poverty rate in the country, white men can go on the reservation and rape woman without repercussions, there are no jobs, they have tried to disenfranchise the people from voting. What has Thune done---------------nothing.
I use to live in Rapid City, when I was younger near Stevens Creek, and my Cherokee mother and I would go out to the reservation to donate clothes and food, and if people in this "country" went out there on the Pine Ridge, just maybe they would see a correlation of how men like Thune and McCain, treat Indigenous People and how it is related to this country and themselves, these two and many other fascists should be fired.
... of my post. The comments from very knowledgable folks at that link are great to read, too.
