If you go to the Secretary of State’s web site, you can see some of the petitions are starting to be turned in, with more certain to come to Pierre with legislators in the next few weeks:
| State Senator | Ernie Otten | REP | 01/06/2016 | District 06 | 46787 273rd St Tea SD 57064 | |
| State Senator | Bob Ewing | REP | 01/05/2016 | District 31 | 120 W Dakota Street Spearfish SD 57783 | |
| State Representative | Oren Lesmeister | DEM | 01/06/2016 | District 28A | HC 76 Box 23 Parade SD 57625 |
And it’s only going to get wilder.
Word on the street is that State Rep. Justin Cronin is going to run for the Senate in District 23.
And unfortunately, word is out that Lora Hubbel is sharpening her knives to run for one of the open House seats in District 9. (God help us all.)
Does Lora Hubbel have a campaign manager for this? Are we to expect more re-enactments?
Cronin would make a great state Senator. He represents our district very well. We tried very hard to help Lora’s campaign get it together when she barely lost to Deb in the primary, but she goes on too many tangents and conspiracy theories that often have nothing to do with the task at hand: WINNING A PRIMARY! That being said, I would have a hard time taking a pass on unseating a pro-abortion senator regardless of who is running.
Is Corey Brown not going to run again? I see he is term limited in Cronin’s same district.
Then on the House Side it says Michelle Harrison and Charlie Hoffman
Maybe he will be someone’s LT GOV candidate
We need to get more fundamentalist preachers in the legislature, we don’t have enough.