Court Opinion

ID: 9668001
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 02:00:13.339987+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:42.306756
License: Public Domain

HENDERSON, Justice
(concurring).
For posterity, for synthesis of my vote, for elaboration of facts to sustain the justification of my vote, some observations:
(1) The facts of this case were stipulated.
*119(2) A State Senator signed and submitted three bids to an agency.
(3) While he was a member of the 1985 Legislature, the funding for three projects, from whence the three bids were birthed, were appropriated.
(4) Without the funding, the projects could not be brought to fruition.
(5) On the date of the vote on the general appropriations bill, 1985 Legislative session, State Senator Thomas W. Krueger was “excused” from voting on the appropriations bill.
(6) State Senator Krueger was president of Asphalt Surfacing Company, appellant herein, when he signed the three bid sheets.
(7) One Henry Carlson, Jr., is the majority stockholder of Henry Carlson Company which owns 100% of the stock of Asphalt Surfacing Company; he served in the Legislature as a State Senator from January 1983 until January 1985. Thus, both of these legislators had an interest with the company submitting the bids; and, therefore, an award of the contract is prevented unto the said Asphalt Surfacing Company for highway repair work by the absolute proscription of Article III, § 12, of the South Dakota Constitution.