Just got done rereading Randall Beck’s open government committee article under Ellis’ byline in the Argue Endorser and it made me chuckle. We at South Dacola have been real interested in the open.sd.gov website lately. Who wrote this? Under whose guidance? With the results we see, why bother? It kind of reminds us of putting lipstick on a pig.
Was it worth it?
The reporting / contracting agency is responsible for up-loading their contracts and expenditures when and if they want to. Just go look for a company, law firm, or medical firm you know is doing business with the state.
Try to find the contract and the terms.
How do these outfits get paid? And how many of these companies (individual owners) are donating to the same old yahoos getting elected to run our state every year?
Look for contracts – payments the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, Governor or any other office out of Pierre. You will be hard pressed to find anything out there. So much for the phoniness of ‘open’ SD government. With all the legislative hearings without contract questions, no-bid contracts, hidden contracts, Governor’s club arrangements and other special deals reported out of Pierre we at South Dacola want to be able to trust something out of Pierre. But you know what they say, “You can only get the shit so shiny when you polish a turd (Pierre).”
Looks like someone’s been going to BK instead of working.
See how that makeup looks on Noem.