UPDATE MARCH 30, 2022:
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota attorney general’s office says it will investigate whether state campaign finance disclosure laws were broken by a political organization that sponsored billboards to push state lawmakers to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg. The attorney general’s chief of staff, Tim Bormann, says the office has received two formal complaints about the billboards. It was still determining how the investigation would be handled given the potential conflict of interest over the billboards. An organization launched to further Gov. Kristi Noem’s agenda sponsored the billboards in Sioux Falls this month (March 2022). The signs demanded Ravnsborg be impeached for his conduct related to a 2020 crash that killed pedestrian Joe Boever.
MARCH 15, 2022:
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Billboards targeting members of the legislative panel examining whether Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg should be impeached have been popping up around Sioux Falls. The signs demand the attorney general be impeached and name four members of the House Select Committee on Investigation which has been looking into Ravnsborg’s conduct related to a 2020 crash that killed pedestrian Joe Boever. A fifth lawmaker who voted against a resolution calling for the House to open an investigation into Ravnsborg was also named in the ads. The organization which put up the billboards, Dakota Institute for Legislative Solutions, lists itself as a non-profit organized to carry forward Gov. Kristi Noem’s agenda. Noem’s representatives say she had nothing to do with the billboards.
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Photo credit Dakota News Now.
Photo credit Dakota News Now.
Photo credit Dakota News Now.
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