Doug Johnson, chairman of the Kansas Equal Rights Amendment Committee, asked Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican gubernatorial nominee, to lead the effort to bring the Senate and House together before Dec. 31 to vote on an amendment that could then be placed before Kansas voters. Two-thirds of both chambers would need to endorse an amendment for it to be placed on statewide ballots in Kansas.
Two Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit Friday over a term limit decision made by Attorney General Austin Knudsen this week that would remove them from the ballot in November. The legal action comes as the state Republican Party is preparing to replace the candidates on the ballot, barring a judge’s intervention. Montana lawmakers are limited to […]
SIOUX FALLS — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s Republican Party faces midterm elections amid economic anxiety, high gas prices and a war with Iran. But Thune, of South Dakota, said the biggest threat to the party’s Senate majority might be Republicans themselves. Thune told South Dakota Searchlight and other journalists Friday during an event […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans on Tuesday defended funding cuts and work requirements Republicans added to federal food assistance programs that have led to thousands of Coloradans losing benefits. Rollins and Evans, a Fort Lupton Republican, hosted a roundtable with Colorado farmers and agricultural producers at Bobcat of the […]
Another decertified candidate took issue with the rule disqualifying him for living in North Carolina instead of South Carolina.
On the 61st anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicaid and Medicare into law, the fate of the healthcare programs are emerging as a key issue for the candidates looking to replace Congressman Jared Golden. Republican nominee Paul LePage has said he will protect Social Security and Medicare, but has a history of opposing […]
Danny Ford II is arguing a GOP Party rule requiring candidates vote in two of the three most recent party primaries is unconstitutional.
Republican South Dakota state Sen. Tom Pischke, of Dell Rapids, ended his reelection campaign Tuesday as he continues to face felony charges for allegedly filing false or forged election-related documents. “I have always prided myself on conducting campaigns with complete transparency on every issue,” said a portion of a statement Pischke sent in response to […]
Some of the political postcards mailed to South Dakota voters in the week ahead of Tuesday’s runoff election for the Republican nomination for governor are financed by a national group that received all of its recent contributions from a Pennsylvania billionaire. Federal Election Commission records show that the School Freedom Fund political action committee has […]
