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Bobbi Andera · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  The following program is part of the Patriot Broadcasting Project brought to you
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  by the SCENE Projects Podcast Network.
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  Welcome in to South Dakota Patriot Broadcasting.
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  I am your host Bubba Starts, and with me today is first term representative from District 10
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  here in South Dakota, Bobby Andera.
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  Welcome to the show, Bobby.
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  Thank you, Bubba.
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  It's nice to be here, and thank you for providing this great platform, for all of South
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  Dakotans.
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  And I just wanna wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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  Well and that's great.
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  And it's it's nice to, just get to talk to legislators.
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  It's not something that the everyday citizen gets to do.
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  I don't really, I don't kind of make the space as a as a stumping place.
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  Right?
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  We're not here to, necessarily campaign, but we wanna get to know you.
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  Right?
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  We we wanna get to know our legislators and to know the people behind the policy.
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  So, let's go ahead and do that.
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  You don't have to start all the way back at the beginning, but why don't you give us a little,
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  a little behind story of who you are and then, why you decided to run this year for a
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  representative?
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  Sure.
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  I'd be happy to.
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  So, I was born in Parkston, South Dakota, to a family of seven brothers and sisters.
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  My dad was a controller at Eglin Co op.
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  I don't know if you're familiar with that, but usually those of us in the Midwest are.
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  And my mom was a babysitter and a school cook growing up.
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  My brothers and sisters actually delivered newspapers and babysat and worked at local
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  businesses to earn money.
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  So I was literally thrown into earning money and managing that money very quickly in my
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  early life.
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  I went to the military after graduation.
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  I was in the United States Air Force.
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  There I was trained to be a medical laboratory journeyman.
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  After my honorable discharge, I received my Bachelor's of Science from Weyland Baptist
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  University.
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  It is a university in Texas.
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  And when I moved back to South Dakota, I worked at the then Sioux Valley on the night shift.
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  And that was obviously before it became Sanford.
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  Since then, I have worn several different hats.
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  I was part of the Lean team at Sanford.
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  I was a laboratory business regulatory manager.
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  I was a lab compliance officer all at Sanford.
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  And I also decided to get my Masters of Science from the University of South Dakota, Go Yoats.
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  And at the present time, I serve on the parking board for Downtown Sioux Falls, the treasurer
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  of South Dakota Republican Women's Cyberspace, the Armed Forces Chair for South Dakota
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  Republican Women's Cyberspace.
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  I also run my own consulting business, which is currently on hiatus as I focus on the
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  legislator and continue, as the regulatory lead for the company I co founded, which is Alamaya
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  Health.
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  That's amazing.
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  So so you've been in, health care or around health care your entire adult life.
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  That's fantastic.
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  I think your point of view is going to be very, very important for the state legislator.
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  I I think you're going to consider, just because of your background, you're going to
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  consider things from a different angle than a lot of other people would.
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  Was there I mean, you're talking about you're being chairs.
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  You've been at the top of some of these organizations and committees and different
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  things, it seems like for a substantial amount of time already.
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  Is stepping into the later just kind of a natural evolution for you to to take that next
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  step to making change?
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  Yes.
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  I believe so.
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  And the reason why I say that is because I look at my particular background, my particular
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  experience as something that you just don't come across every day.
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  As a scientist and as someone who is familiar with what goes on behind the scenes, so to
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  speak, I believe that is a good position for me to be in to offer maybe a different
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  perspective.
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  And also it was very natural because of everything that has happened back, you know, in
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  2020, 2021, all of that with the COVID scare and everything else.
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  And on top of that, I served my country and I wanna continue to serve.
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  This is in my blood.
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  It's in my family's blood.
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  We come from a long line of military people, and, this is just part of who I am, and I want
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  to serve the citizens of South Dakota.
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  Well, I am so grateful.
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  One, for your service and for your family's service and for your continued service to the
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  citizens of South Dakota.
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  I think a lot of our legislature at this point, especially in the Sioux Falls area, is kinda
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  dominated by business people.
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  And not that we don't need business people in these positions, but we need a more, a broader,
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  spectrum that we're kinda pulling from.
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  Right?
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  We need different human experiences that are there offering their side of things and not
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  just all business people that are kind of focused that economic growth over everything.
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  Correct.
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  I completely agree with you.
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  And, you know, we have we have so many different types of backgrounds that are coming
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  in to this term.
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  And it's just, it's really exciting to see you've got people from all walks of life that
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  are going to be offering their skills, their time, their energy to represent the citizens of
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  South Dakota in the best way that they can from kind of like a grassroots perspective.
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  And, and I agree.
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  It is it's time for a little bit of a change here.
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  It's time for a little bit of a change.
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  Do you feel I mean, '22 new legislators, I'm hope you know, entering into the legislature
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  this year.
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  I don't know if that's a record, you know, since the inception of our state government,
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  but that's a pretty big swath of new legislators coming in.
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  Does that kinda speak to the broader kinda grassroots patriot movement in general?
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  It sure does.
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  It's interesting because what I heard when I was out there talking to my constituents, they
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  made it very, very clear that they wanted change.
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  The one thing that they had a hard time with was actually verbalizing that change.
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  They just know they wanted it.
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  And so as we talked, we kind of were able to get on the same page of kind of where I'm
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  coming from and why I'm running.
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  And it was a tough decision to run.
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  It was, it was a lot of work.
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  However, I felt now is the time for that citizen representation kind of with that
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  different perspective, a more holistic approach through a respect of that centeredness and that
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  neutrality.
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  And that's something that they really identified with.
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  And my constituents made it clear that the government was not doing their job, which
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  simply put should only concern itself with ensuring the rights of the people and those
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  rights shall not be infringed.
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  Government overreach and individual agendas kind of overshadowed a lot of things that were
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  happening.
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  And it created some unease with the citizens of South Dakota, regardless of the party
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  affiliation.
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  I mean, I talked to, I talked to Democrats, I talked to independents, I talked to
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  Republicans, I talked to everybody, you know, and, and overall this aligned with my
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  perspective as a staunch supporter of the federal constitution, the state constitution,
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  and specifically the Bill of Rights.
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  So so, yeah, I mean, you know, that's why I ran.
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  And, I really, you know, felt that I made a really good connection with with my
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  constituents here in District 10.
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  And now the learning process begins of learning how to be a legislator.
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  It it's something that it's something that, another first time representative, Tessa
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  Schwands, came on here and shared, and she kinda shared that there's a there's a lot of
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  homework that goes into learning the lingo and the processes of moving into the legislature
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  and making these decisions and and making your voice heard.
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  We know that it's not going to be easy.
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  It wasn't easy to get to this point, and it takes, it's gonna take a lot more work to,
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  affect actual change.
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  Right?
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  Like, getting getting patriots into these things into these positions is just the
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  beginning.
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  Like, we're still fighting against a very, you know, the incumbent, you know, some of them
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  call them rhinos and have other terms for them.
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  But, you know, the Republican, party in South Dakota, it's just different than other places.
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  Right?
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  Because we are a a red state pretty much across the board.
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  I don't I don't know how many Democratic senators or representatives or even are in our
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  state legislators who kinda have the super majority, but there's no way that everyone in
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  that Republican party agrees with each other.
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  And I think what we're starting to see is we're starting to see I don't wanna call it
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  fracturing, but there's definitely kind of battle lines being drawn within the Republican
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  party.
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  Would you say that you kind of feel that as well in your campaign and now kind of moving
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  into, your work as a legislator?
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  I would say that I see it.
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  Yes.
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  I would also say that my personal view, my personal approach is one of peace and working
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  together and centeredness.
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  But, you know, to kind of go back to what you're saying, so the House currently 64
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  Republicans and six Democrats.
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  The Senate is about 32 Republicans and three Democrats, and we have had this largest
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  Republican caucus since 1952.
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  So we are breaking records.
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  As far as the fracturing goes, I would say that there has been this monolithic type of, I don't
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  know, movement, I guess you could say, where over a period of time, many of those that were
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  Republicans or are Republicans, they got used to, well, I'm just going to stay at home.
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  I'm going to work.
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  I'm going to raise my family.
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  And since that person is a Republican, I'm going to trust them.
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  This has since changed because there have been these, you know, large businesses.
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  There have been agendas.
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  There's been money.
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  There's been corruption.
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  Now how much of that is happening in the South Dakota legislation?
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  I don't know.
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  But as far as it goes from the perspective of seeing it maybe on a federal level and maybe
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  seeing some of it on a state level.
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  The people saw what was happening and they wanted to bring that Republican conservatism
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  back.
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  And their outright trust of people with R behind their name was going under a little bit
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  more scrutiny than it had been in the past.
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  And I think that is why people have seen this ground swell of strong Republican conservative
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  people running for these positions because they know that, you know, sometimes people talk a
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  really good game, but they don't really follow through.
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  And that's a major impetus for this this program.
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  And like I said, getting to know the people behind the policy, because you really don't see
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  anything about the policy or these bills or, like unless you're really involved in that,
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  which very few people are, you have no idea what is changing until it's changed.
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  Right?
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  You're you're kind of constantly living in the past, and and the present is already gone
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  before you know what's going on, at least from a common citizen level.
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  You know, there's not a lot of reporting on our on our media stations, you know, as far as
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  they're reporting the news, but they're not reporting what's happening and what you can do
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  to affect some change in that beforehand.
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  So it kind of serves, for us to to be that voice, to be that, hey, this is what's coming
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  down the line.
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  This is what's being talked about, and this is how you get involved to affect that change as a
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  common citizen.
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  I think no, you know, no situation kind of exemplifies that better than, you know,
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  representative Bethany Soy, going to the Sioux Falls City Council meeting, just a week or so
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  ago.
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  Right?
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  And and showing that and getting the press and publicity that these things are, you know,
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  these things are happening.
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  You know?
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  And right now, it's literature in in the public libraries and in the school libraries, but
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  there's always something.
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  There's always something happening under underneath the the surface, and we need to
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  kinda bring those things up into the light before it's just, oh, well, that's just the way
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  that it is.
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  Absolutely.
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  I agree with you 100%.
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  And transparency is probably one of the biggest things that all governments have struggled
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  with.
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  And, you know, what can you say, what can you not say, but what you're bringing up as far as
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  transparency from the perspective of this needs to be out there and not stymied by cherry
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  picking what gets, you know, exposed, such as your platform, I'm sure you are going to be
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  bringing out a lot of these discussions, a lot of this background information that otherwise
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  would not have been available through mainstream media to the citizens of South
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  Dakota.
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  So Bethany is just one example of what transparency is and how those voices are not
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  going to be, you know, silenced.
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  They need to be put out there.
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  People's perspectives need to be understood.
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  Because when you don't know that something else is going on or you're not aware of the
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  information, how are you to make an informed decision?
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  Exactly.
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  And that's kind of where I I've sent you know, I know the Patriot broadcasting and the Patriot
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  movement, a lot of people are going to associate that with some kind of far right
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  movement, but I don't think that's what it is at all.
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  I think it's a much more centered view of the world and that people we just wanna have
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  discussions again.
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  You know?
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  And, unfortunately, for people who identify as Democrats, that party was completely, taken
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  over by I'll call them communist because that's what it was.
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  And they only gave you one one point of view that was accepted in the party.
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  And I feel bad for a lot of people that got caught up in that because now they have no
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  party essentially.
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  Right?
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  And and then you see that in a super party now that is the Republican party in South Dakota.
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  Like, yeah, we're all Republicans in name, but I voted yes on I am 29.
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  I bet I was one of few Republicans who did that.
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  Right?
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  Like, I have different views than you do.
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  But where we align in our morals and in our values, I think that's where it it really it
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  really starts to bend in and that, you know, government isn't just about economic policy.
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  And I think that's what we're seeing a lot of in South Dakota right now.
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  Obviously, our governor Kristi Noem or or soon to be ex governor probably with her new
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  position in the federal government.
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  You know, she was obviously all about economic growth.
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  Paul Tenhaken in Sioux Falls, the same thing.
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  They they love the growth.
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  They love to be the cool guy.
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  You know, he's wearing his Jordans to the press conferences and everything.
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  But what are you really doing to protect all the citizens of South Dakota?
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  Growth at all costs doesn't seem like a very, it doesn't seem like a very good policy to me.
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  And while we align in the name that's but, you know, or the letter that's beside your name in
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  the, you know, in the chamber news or whatever, that doesn't mean that we agree on everything.
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  And I think there needs to be open discussions, and you just don't get that anywhere.
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  I I completely agree with that.
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  And again, my platform was pretty much on that centeredness and more of government neutrality,
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  more of government managing, the assurances for the citizens that their rights are not going to
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  be infringed no matter what direction it's coming from.
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  I grew up in a Democrat household.
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  I called it my little JFK Democrat household and many of my family members are Democrat and
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  I love them fiercely.
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  Do we agree on everything?
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  No.
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  But I have also heard from them that they felt that they were being guided a certain way with
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  how their party wanted them to vote.
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  And so I just felt like I was a good representation of, you know, more of a central
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  view of that and just bring a little bit of sense and sensibility back to peer.
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  Well, I just love it.
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  I think that's a great point to jump off here for today.
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  I thank you so much for jumping on with me and taking a chance on you know, I'm just a guy in
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  his, in his garage with a microphone.
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  Right?
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  But I love having good conversations.
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  I love getting to know people.
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  And then I like to know that those people that I know are are out there doing the things that
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  are affecting all of our lives here and having that access.
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  So when something big does happen and I have questions that I can reach out to you, and I
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  can reach out to women like Tessa as well and and go, hey.
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  What's really going on here?
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  So that I can deliver that to our people and to provide some some comfort, right, some
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  information and and some, you know, a little bit of maybe levity to the the situations at
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  hand.
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  So, Bobby, I just wanna thank you so much for, jumping on.
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  Why don't you go ahead and and tell the people where they can get ahold of you, people in your
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  district, and just South Dakotans at large?
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  Absolutely.
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  You can get ahold of me at, Bobby l Andera for house dot proton dot me or at proton dot me.
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  And then also you can go to the public email as well.
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  I've got a website.
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  I will possibly be on X as well.
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  I don't know just yet, but that's part of kind of my my movement of transparency as well.
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  So more to come on that.
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  More to come.
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  Again, BobbylAnderaForhouse@Proton.me.
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  Excellent, Bobby.
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  Well, we look forward to having you back on the show anytime you got news share.
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  And, yeah, we'll we'll see you next time.
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  Okay.
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  Thanks, Bubba.
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