Voter apathy driving South Dakota’s anti-business faction to power, governor says

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A small but vocal minority of activists are pushing an anti-economic development agenda in South Dakota, Gov. Larry Rhoden said Thursday, and they are succeeding because of voter apathy.

“They are very anti-economic development, so they get a lot of attention,” Rhoden said.

Some of them have ended up in the state Legislature, in part because of low voter turnout in Republican primaries, the governor said.

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