I love the life that my wife and I have built in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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wife → love → Dakota
Iâm running for Senate as an independent because Iâm tired of seeing Big Money overpower common sense.
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Money → run → sense
The values I learned growing up in a small rural town from my machinist fatherâthe same values that built this great countryâare being treated as though they matter less than a politicianâs personal ambition or a billionaireâs appetite.
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they → learn → ambition
More than at any time in my life, I believe our political system needs to be shaken up and that We the People need to overcome the corrupting influence of Big Money.
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We → believe → Money
Self-dealing is screwing hard-working, honorable South Dakotans out of their chance to live the American Dream.
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dealing → screw → Dream
Iâm convinced that term limits are the best way to do it.
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limits → iâm → it
Hereâs a good example of why I believe that.
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I → hereâ → that
Last month it was reported that my opponent, Sen. Mike Rounds, allowed one of his top advisers â whoâs drawing a 6-figure taxpayer-funded salary â to simultaneously work as a lobbyist for Meta.
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one → report → Meta
This adviser, also a former Rounds campaign manager, has been pushing Big Money interests in the halls of the South Dakota state capitol, then advising our U.S. Senator on the very same issues, on the very same day.
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adviser → push → day
That is why, when Iâm elected, the first bill Iâll introduce is to make ALL lobbying by congressional staff illegal.
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lobbying → elect → staff
Iâve had enough.
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Iâve → iâve → enough
Washingtonâs culture is so corrupt and out of touch that the people who live there too long donât even realize it anymore.
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who → live → it
I believe Mike Rounds is a good man.
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Rounds → believe → ?
Iâm not here to add to the name-calling and personal meanness that does nothing to solve the very serious problems our state and nation face.
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state → iâm → problems
It was also recently reported that Mike Rounds spends more taxpayer money on private jets than any other member of the Senate.
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Rounds → report → Senate
I believe Mike Rounds is a good man.
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Rounds → believe → ?
Iâm not here to add to the name-calling and personal meanness that does nothing to solve the very serious problems our state and nation face.
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state → iâm → problems
Iâm here to say that Washington, D.C. needs to change.
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Washington → iâm → ?
Most of us can agree our local communities are the ones who pay the price when an elected official stays in Washington too long.
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official → agree → Washington
We're paying a huge price now.
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We → pay → price
I agreed with President Donald Trump when he ran on "no new wars."
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he → agree → wars
As a patriot whoâs proud to have served in both the Navy and the Air Force, I believe commanders-in-chief have a duty to only send our fighting men and women into harmâs way when itâs absolutely necessary.
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commanders → whoâ → way
I agreed with him when he said that we needed to fight to make life less expensive.
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life → agree → him
Where I come from, a promise is a promise.
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promise → come → Where
But now, every time I fill up my Ram 1500 at the Corner Pantry, Iâm paying over $4.00 a gallon.
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I → fill → 4.00
When I buy groceries for my family at Sonnyâs Super Foods, Iâm paying more all the timeâespecially when I buy beef grown by the best ranchers in the world, right here in South Dakota.
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I → buy → Dakota
They are now having to compete with imports from South America that arenât fairly labeled so that American consumers can know the difference.
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consumers → have → difference
The Indian motorcycles that my brother works to assemble are getting harder for Americans to buy because of tariffs that we were told would make American manufacturing stronger.
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manufacturing → work → tariffs
I have plenty of disagreements with the left.
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I → have → left
It scares the hell out of me that young people are feeling a pull towards Socialism.
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people → scar → Socialism
Sen. Rounds has voted in favor of the Iran war every time heâs had the opportunity.
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Rounds → vote → opportunity
He voted for the tariffs that are hurting South Dakotaâs economy.
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that → vote → economy
He voted to make the biggest healthcare cuts weâve ever felt, just so that companies could get tax breaks to build data centers.
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companies → vote → centers
Wired reports that Mike has now taken more campaign contributions from data center-tied interests than from all of South Dakota itself.
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Mike → report → Dakota
Those corporate donors are literally getting our moneyâs worth.
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donors → get → worth
Sen. Rounds has been in office so long that he voted for the law that made it so that grocery stores donât have to tell us which country their meat came from.
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meat → vote → country
Now he says he wants to bring those rules back.
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he → say → rules
Weâve reached the point where career politicians have been in office so long theyâre running against the exact things they did.
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they → weâve → things
I have plenty of disagreements with the left.
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I → have → left
It scares the hell out of me that young people are feeling a pull towards socialism.
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people → scar → socialism
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