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Weiland and Samuelson Submit 39K Signatures for Open Nonpartisan Primary;...
Rick Weiland (1) and Drey Samuelson (3) deliver petition to place open nonpartisan primary on SD 2016 ballot to Secretary of State Shantel Krebs (2) and Deputy SOS Kea Warne (4). Photo from @soskrebs,...
View ArticleKnobe Backs Daugaard’s Teacher Pay Plan
KSOO’s Independent radio host Rick Knobe continues to urge the Legislature to raise South Dakota’s teacher pay. He said last November that he wasn’t terribly impressed with the Blue Ribbon K-12 panel’s...
View ArticleHowie Campaign Manager Reid Joins Weiland and Knobe to Back Open Non-Partisan...
Odd couples get odder…. Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal that we get to vote on in November, has already brought together 2014 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland and...
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Dakota Free Press on KSOO Viewpoint University at 4:15 p.m. Today!
I’m as surprised as you are: it turns out I’ll be a guest this afternoon—an hour from now!—on 1140 KSOO’s Viewpoint University. Chancellor Rick Knobe plans to pick my brain about the payday lending...
View ArticleRepublicans, Knobe Dismiss Partisan Distraction-Attacks on Amendment V
Republican opponents say Amendment V, the proposal for open non-partisan primary elections, is really just a plot to help Democrats. Other Republicans disagree: Republicans Dave Volk, former State...
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If GOP Rejects Non-SD-Funded Ballot Measures, Thune Is Toast
The most crushing, crowd-pleasing comeback of last night’s ballot question forum in Sioux Falls came from Amendment V campaign chairman Rick Knobe, just seconds after my video memory card blinked FULL....
View ArticleKnobe Says No on 19 and 20
Rick Knobe’s opposition to Referred Laws 19 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and 20 (the youth sub-minimum wage) is no surprise. The Sioux Falls radio man condemned both laws in early April, 2015, and...
View ArticleKnobe Says Put Medicaid Expansion Back on Table…
…Heidelberger Offers Thune Interim Plan to Soft-Land ACA Repeal The rise of Trump may have made Governor Dennis Daugaard throw in the towel on Medicaid expansion, but Rick Knobe isn’t so easily cowed....
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Curd Names Knobe, First Independent, to Board of Elections
Senator R. Blake Curd did something nice this week. The Republican Majority Leader had the opportunity to appoint a replacement for fellow Republican Drew Duncan on the state Board of Elections....
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Knobe Knocks Legislators; SF Paper Takes Errant Visual Swipe at Congress
That Sioux Falls paper, 2017.07.07, screen cap 2017.07.09. That Sioux Falls paper unfairly brands Rick Knobe’s really good letter about ballot measures resulting from Legislative inaction with a photo...
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Hedrick Smith Includes South Dakota IM 22 Battle in Series on Grassroots...
“We don’t suffer from gridlock; we suffer from one-party domination,” says Rick Knobe in this documentary clip from Hedrick Smith on initiative, referendum, and the Koch-funded Republican effort to...
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SDGOP Tries to Push Independent Knobe off District 25 Ballot on Residency Doubt
Earlier this month, the Sixth Circuit Court in Pierre reversed Secretary of State Steve Barnett’s rejection of Justyn Hauck’s nominating petition and ordered the Secretary to certify Hauck’s candidacy...
View ArticleHowie Campaign Manager Reid Joins Weiland and Knobe to Back Open Non-Partisan...
Odd couples get odder…. Amendment V, the open non-partisan primary proposal that we get to vote on in November, has already brought together 2014 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland and...
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Dakota Free Press on KSOO Viewpoint University at 4:15 p.m. Today!
I’m as surprised as you are: it turns out I’ll be a guest this afternoon—an hour from now!—on 1140 KSOO’s Viewpoint University. Chancellor Rick Knobe plans to pick my brain about the payday lending...
View ArticleRepublicans, Knobe Dismiss Partisan Distraction-Attacks on Amendment V
Republican opponents say Amendment V, the proposal for open non-partisan primary elections, is really just a plot to help Democrats. Other Republicans disagree: Republicans Dave Volk, former State...
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If GOP Rejects Non-SD-Funded Ballot Measures, Thune Is Toast
The most crushing, crowd-pleasing comeback of last night’s ballot question forum in Sioux Falls came from Amendment V campaign chairman Rick Knobe, just seconds after my video memory card blinked FULL....
View ArticleKnobe Says No on 19 and 20
Rick Knobe’s opposition to Referred Laws 19 (the Incumbent Protection Plan) and 20 (the youth sub-minimum wage) is no surprise. The Sioux Falls radio man condemned both laws in early April, 2015, and...
View ArticleKnobe Says Put Medicaid Expansion Back on Table…
…Heidelberger Offers Thune Interim Plan to Soft-Land ACA Repeal The rise of Trump may have made Governor Dennis Daugaard throw in the towel on Medicaid expansion, but Rick Knobe isn’t so easily cowed....
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Curd Names Knobe, First Independent, to Board of Elections
Senator R. Blake Curd did something nice this week. The Republican Majority Leader had the opportunity to appoint a replacement for fellow Republican Drew Duncan on the state Board of Elections....
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Knobe Knocks Legislators; SF Paper Takes Errant Visual Swipe at Congress
That Sioux Falls paper, 2017.07.07, screen cap 2017.07.09. That Sioux Falls paper unfairly brands Rick Knobe’s really good letter about ballot measures resulting from Legislative inaction with a photo...
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