PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) – Amongst the flurry of bills Monday was an attempt by Republican Senators Julie-Frye-Mueller and Tom Pischke to turn the tables on Republican President Pro Tem Lee Schoenbeck.
The two Senators moved “for the establishment of a Select Committee on Discipline and Expulsion (Rule 58-1) to investigate the conduct of Sen. Schoenbeck regarding disparaging comments made in both Senate Committees and on the Senate floor.”
Sen. Schoenbeck has criticized Sen. Frye-Mueller and some conservative Legislators as “wackadoodles.”
The motion died for lack of a second, and the Senate moved on to other business.
In January, when a Legislative Research Council staffer complained about a conversation with Sen. Frye-Mueller and her husband, lobbyist Mike Mueller, Sen. Schoenbeck recommended suspended Senator Frye-Mueller and stripped her of her committee assignments. She was reinstated but remains without committee assignments.