Thune and Delegation Deliver on Highway Bill

Here's a story in today's Rapid City Journal, which mentions the record level of funding for South Dakota in the just adopted highway bill:

South Dakota's share represents a 30 percent increase for the state over the previous transportation bill, passed in 1998. That bill expired in 2003. The current bill has been stalled for more than two years. ...

Thune secured $150 million in earmarks, Johnson secured $75 million and Herseth, $25 million, for specific projects.

Wasn't former/current Daschle campaign manager Steve Hildebrand just complaining in the newspaper about how Thune had messed up the state's transportation money??