'A donation was expected': Should the governor be able to take campaign checks from staffers?
South Dakota legislators cite free speech concerns, reject proposal barring executive branch officials from accepting political contributions from high-ranking employees
PIERRE — Future South Dakota governors can keep taking campaign donations from cabinet members and high-ranking state staffers.
A proposed ban on state officials, department heads and their deputies who report to elected office holders — including the governor — contributing to their bosses’ political organizations or candidacies fell Monday in the state House, days after a former cabinet member under a past administration spotlighted past pressures to cut checks.
