The only Democrat wanting to claim Tim Johnson’s Senate seat brought his campaign to Huron Thursday with an appearance at the Beadle County Democratic Forum. Rick Weiland told an enthusiastic lunch crowd gathered in a Crossroads Hotel banquet room he believes the time is here to raise the minimum wage…
He is calling on his six fellow candidates to declare where they stand on the minimum wage issue…
Weiland also continues to fight what he calls Big Money, the special interest funds, Weiland claims to have had influence on the health care and energy industries. He says a new kind of money is also making it’s way into the race…
Weiland says he plans to fight dark money one vote at a time…
Weiland says he has been to 281 of South Dakota’s 311 incorporated and unincorporated towns including stops Thursday in Canova, Epiphany and Letcher.