Spotlight@Northern presents Noem, Marking, & Herseth Sandlin UPDATE!

Professor Schaff and I completed our interviews with the candidates for the at large House of Representatives seat this afternoon. Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin sat down with us and answered our questions for about a half hour.

I don't know for certain when the Spotlight House Show will be available. When it is, you can view it on local channel 12 at 9:30am, 1:30pm, and 8:30pm. Sometime on Monday the show should be posted on the web. You should find the link here: http://www.northern.edu/About/NSU_TV/Pages/default.aspx. The whole thing will be about two hours long.

A few comments are in order. I am very impressed with the caliber of candidates that South Dakota has produced. I found myself liking all three, and I wish that the average voter could get more exposure to them. If you watch all three interviews, you will get a good idea of the strengths of each candidate, and the political cultures that each represents.

One thing I learned today is that Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin came within a chapter of completing a PhD in political science. But don't hold that against her.

UPDATE

I have been informed that the Spotlight House special will debut at 1:30pm on Monday.

Comments

[Jason]

The ads about Noem’s speeding showing children in the background shows how desperate they are getting. Are they implying that Noem’s speeding will result in children being ran over and killed? Shades of Bill Janklow. But I digress. Herseth claims to have helped a wounded soldier receive better care. It’s not in her job description or is it? Her ‘job’ is making laws and seeing them passed as her staff states in letters addressed to Herseth Sandlin. Stephanie picks and chooses who she will help with difficulties with federal agencies. Certainly the Justice Department ignoring identity theft going on for 5 years using the child’s identity qualifies. But apparently she does not want to upset any one. Using fake social security numbers for 12 years in bank fraud, check kiting, no account checks, credit card fraud and bank fraud is not the Justice Department’s concern? You know why? Because State officials like Daugaard are covering up corrupt Judges that actually run South Dakota. Not the governor’s office for sure. Federal laws were sent to Stephanie and her staff with the question why is it allowed that federal laws can be broken, blatantly, because Chief Justice David Gilbertson has an ax to grind? The State Bar and SD Judicial Qualifications Commission do nothing about corrupt State Judges.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is a poor person to represent the average South Dakotan. When she gets voted out watch her move to Texas or maybe get a job is State Government.
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[Stan Gibilisco]

Yes, a job in state government: Governor a few years from now, when the spinoffs of Obamacare bill come waltzing in, driving Medicaid expenses through the roof, while the education funding issue smolders away. A state income tax will follow, on corporations at least, and possibly on every last one of us hapless serfs ...

... all this assuming, of course, that Noem actually wins on November 2. I don't think Republicans can count on that until all the ballots are in.

[Miranda Flint]

I enjoyed the first two shows immensely and am looking forward to the next!

[KB]

Thanks, Miranda. It has been a lot of work, and a load of fun. The House show was very exciting to produce because we got to talk to some nationally important people. Jon and I will do a post election show to follow this one.

[Miranda Flint]

I have finally had a chance to see the show in its entirety. It was particularly nice to get to hear something from Marking, who has not gotten much coverage elsewhere. Also, the positive coverage was a nice break from the darker messages of the advertising campaigns. I've passed on the link and look forward to more episodes of Spotlight!