You pay taxes to the state and some of that money is used to pay for state projects. That's where Initiated Measure 10 comes in. Supporters say they want to make the financing for those projects more transparent. But opponents say the measure is nothing more than a gag order.

Supporters of Initiated Measure 10 say by passing the initiative South Dakota voters could break a cycle of money that moves from political insiders to state agencies to consulting contracts to no-bid contracts, back to political insiders.

At a press conference Thursday morning supporters of Measure 10 said they don't think the people in state or local governments are bad. According to YES on 10 State Co-Chair Sam Kephart, "our campaign...YES on 10...is about principles, not individuals or companies."

But opponents of the initiative, like David Owen of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce say if it were to pass you are going to fell the effects. "They talk about bid laws. They're not changing big laws. They're keeping 10's of thousands of small business people, teachers....firefighters and others out of the political process."

During the YES on 10 press conference, organizers showed a video highlighting millions of dollars in no-bid contracts that went to one advertising agency. Kephart says, "the video is designed to clearly explain to people the culture of pervasive cronyism that exists in Pierre."

Opponents see it much differently. Owen says, "that takes whole classes of people and damages their fundamental rights."