I'll get you my pretty... And your little bill too!
The Rapid City Journal has a Bill Harlan story this morning noting that Representative Hargens had been one of the legislators in full support of SB 173. Until he didn't get his way: Hargens asked Rhoden to switch the House agenda so school funding would get a vote before the property tax bill. “It was very clear what his intentions were,” Rhoden said Monday. On Tuesday, Hargens readily acknowledged what he wanted. In return for Rhoden’s support on more aid to schools, Hargens offered to persuade members of his own caucus to support the property-tax measure. and... Rhoden, however, noted that Hargens had stood up with him at a news conference the previous week to support SB173 as vital to agriculture. After Rhoden refused to deal, however, Hargens voted against the property tax measure, which lost 40-30 in the House, with 17 of 20 Democrats voting against it. Read it all here . So, one day Hargens is saying that SB 173 is vital to agriculture, and is even photographed at the same ...