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On this episode of The Scouting Lounge, Joe Sneve and Jonathan Ellis sit down with three South Dakota voices at the center of the state’s political debates.
Elizabeth Schenkel, external affairs director for the Community Healthcare Association of South Dakota and a spokesperson for the opposition campaign to Constitutional Amendment I, discusses the measure, which would condition South Dakota’s constitutional requirement to provide expanded Medicaid coverage on the level of federal funding available for the program.
Ned Horstad with “L-No” discusses Constitutional Amendment L, which would raise the approval threshold for future amendments to the South Dakota Constitution from a simple majority to 60 percent of votes cast.
And U.S. Senate candidate Brian Bengs talks about his campaign and his challenge to Republican Sen. Mike Rounds.
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