Please identify your ex-senator. As a South Dakotan, I say he/she is full of BS.
If you are East River, I can understand how you don’t understand. If you are West River I would pose the questions, where do you stand on a balanced State budget, and how many years has the budget been out of whack?
Who, then has been in charge, in the legislature, and in the Governors office. The latest election has certainly not changed anything in the Governors office, where the number of state employees rose like the tide during the last administration, and is unsustainable, if the budget was truly in balance.
This state is in serious financial trouble, like many others, and we have waited past the good times, until it is bad times, and we will see if tough decisions can be made or SD is going to continue to depend on the now BROKE federal government to cover our loses.
Something that has not happened for four years so far. Speaking of BS, I hope you don’t believe the latest from the legislature, that the budget was balanced, at the end of the last legislative session. Not even the leading Democrat candidate for Governor believed that statement.
There are a couple more pertinent questions, but enough for now.
One thing that does need to be considered, is the number of Senators presently in the legislature, who have done precisely what this thread is discussing, that is, change from dem to rep, and not for reasons of principle. I believe the number is larger than the true conservatives that remain.