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While more than 30 states are considering passing legislation to block government health care from being forced on their states, Virginia has become the first state to get such a bill to the governor’s office. On an 80-17 vote, the Virginia legislature has sent their bill to the governor, who is expected to sign it into law. Read more »

Lemmon, South Dakota has scheduled their first Tea Party event. The event will be at 1:00 pm on Saturday, May 1, featuring a special speaker on the Constitution who will hold a Q & A session, and all South Dakota gubernatorial candidates have been invited; two have accepted the invitation so far. Tell your friends that the Tea Party movement is coming to Lemmon, South Dakota! Read more »

The South Dakota Legislature held its last full week of session last week and it was described by one legislator as the “week in Hell.” That is because most of the week was centered around the state’s budget for the next fiscal year. Will Governor Rounds veto the budget, or parts of it? Will the legislative body override any vetoes? Read more »

The South Dakota Legislature recently passed SB 89 which declares “exempt from federal regulation any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Dakota.” Now, a little more than a week later, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds has signed the bill into law. Read more »

Steve Hildebrand of Sioux Falls, a former advisor of President Barack Obama, admits Democrats may just get slaughtered in the upcoming 2010 November elections: I think that there is a real shot we [Democrats] are going to get slaughtered in elections this fall” Read more »

Republican gubernatorial candidate Gordon Howie says last week’s plan from legislative leadership called for budget cuts, but this plan doesn’t actually cut the budget. Howie says it increases government spending. Read more »

The South Dakota Legislature is in the final throes of the 85th legislative session. Of course the biggest issue confronting our legislators is how are they going to balance the books when something like $40 million apparently is still out of sight. Maybe they have the answer but are keeping it a secret for a few more days. But the state’s budget deficit isn’t the only question out there and people are asking what about the others. Read more »

Earlier this morning I discussed SB 134 in the South Dakota legislature to divest South Dakota’s state-controlled pension and trust funds of interests in Iran. Iran is a threat to the United States, our allies in the Middle East and Europe, and to our troops serving in the Middle East. This video shows why this bill is important. Read more »

These are the best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Legalize Marijuana? That’s Crazy!; Al Gore: King of Lie-Lie Land; Lord Monckton to Al Gore: I’m Coming for You; Global Warming Hysteria: Following the Green Money; Global Warming Fanatics Shoot Children, Themselves in Attempt to Save Earth; Kopp vs. Zimmerman: Science Versus Hysteria; MSNBC meltdown: Tea Party racists, anti-semite murderers; and more! Read more »

On principle alone, free peoples should not be investing in the belligerent state of Iran. That is why SB 134 was introduced in the South Dakota Legislature this year. Now former CIA director James Woolsey has come out in support of this effort. Read more »

The Rapid City Journal is reporting that Malcom Chapman won’t be running for re-election on the Rapid City Council. Expect big, big changes on the Rapid City Council starting this year and in the next election. People have had it up to their eyeballs with arrogant waste of taxpayer dollars and elitism. And while the Tea Party movement has definitely been big on the national scene over the last year, Tea Parties are very active in local issues, as well. Read more »

A bill that declares “exempt from federal regulation any firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured and retained in South Dakota” passed in the South Dakota House of Representatives today. SB 89 was approved by a 49-19 vote. The bill had already passed the state Senate on Feb. 18 with a 29-4 vote. Read more »

A discussion took place on South Dakota Public Radio today between South Dakota state Rep. Don Kopp (R-Rapid City) and Dr. Pat Zimmerman from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology regarding Kopp’s bill requiring balanced instruction when anthropogenic global warming theory is taught in public schools. Read more »

South Dakota state Senator Gordon Howie (R-Rapid City), who is also a candidate for South Dakota governor in 2010, has a new video out on his website at www.howie2010.com. Howie pledges to get government out of our business, to protect human life through all stages, defend Second Amendment rights, and ensure our state policies are built on a foundation of principle. Read more »

It seems we have heard a lot this legislative session that opponents to certain bills are saying, “We had better wait until next year before we should think about passing a certain bill into law. Perhaps things will be better then,” or “The state’s finances may be in better shape next year,” or tripe like that. Well, if history serves me right, that next year seldom ever gets to South Dakota. Case in point: The bill to remove the state sales tax on food. Read more »

Citizens for Liberty, the Rapid City Tea Party group, hosted the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit today at the Best Western Ramkota in Rapid City. Tea Party and other limited groups from all over South Dakota came together to strategize on how to best promote limited government, to share ideas and develop better communication between groups. South Dakotans are joining thousands of other energized patriots across the country who are determined to return government to the control of the people, and return government to its constitutional boundaries. Read more »

An open letter to Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-SD) on the fiscal insanity in Washington D.C….and their complicity in it. Read more »

You probably weren’t anyway, but in case you were waiting and hoping Rapid City Mayor Alan Hanks would veto the despicable council censure of Alderman Sam Kooiker, you can stop holding your breath. Read more »

The Rapid City Tea Party group Citizens for Liberty will host the 2010 South Dakota Tea Party Summit tomorrow, Saturday February 27 at 6:30 pm at the Ramkota Best Western Rushmore Room in Rapid City. Come join patriots from across South Dakota at this historic, electrifying event. Read more »

The slow-motion circus that has become the Rapid City Council has been going on for several years. The censure of Alderman Sam Kooiker last week, and revelations of inaction over fraud at the city landfill, are only the latest installments of a government that is imploding. Read more »

The best of the best from Dakota Voice last week, including: America’s best-kept secret of 2009: Michael Savage and His Ban from Britain; Is Sarah Palin as Dumb as Diane Feinstein?; American Colleges: The Liberal Factory; Birth of the Tea Party Movement; Crow Indian Tea Party holds first rally; Rain, Snow or Shine, Global Warming is Fine…For an Excuse; and more! Read more »