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Issues for state government.
Posted on November 1, 2006 by Moderator
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It is possible that South Dakota will reject the abortion ban but elect many candidates who support the abortion ban? If elected, how would you change the focus of the next legislative session?
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Candidate Responses
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Changing the focus
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South Dakotans are weary of the continual haranging debate about abortion. This wedge issue has been brought to us in part by zealots from out of state who have come to keep the fires of division burning bright. Indeed the legislative focus must change in the coming year. We have real and substantive issues facing our state. Who among us is not concerned about improving our schools and funding them for the first time adequately? Absolutely no one. Who among us is opposed to better jobs, health care and caring for the fragile ecosystem of our beautiful Black Hills? That is important to us all. Who among us wants to be at odds with our neighbors and friends over private and personal issues? I think most of us do not want that. And I think we can change our focus to work together on issues we can agree on such as health care, jobs, and education and the bone crushing poverty that plagues too many people in our state. The key issue is that we are all going to have to put aside our own biases in the name of cooperation and collegial effort to do what is best for our state. Legislators will have to make tough decisions to take the high road to address those things we can agree on. The rest of it is deeply personal, some of it based on people's own religious beliefs. We must honor that fact that we all have personal beliefs and we need to respect those but working for our state means just that, working together on issues that affect us all, not issues that we will never agree on.
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Posted By Suzan Nolan on November 3, 2006 9:20
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