Democratic candidates for S.D. legislature speak at forum
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HURON — Democratic candidates for state House and Senate seats from Huron are pushing voter registration, door-to-door campaigning and a refusal to accept special interest money in their attempt to return more balance to the legislative branch and end corruption in state government.
“I’ve heard from a lot of constituents,” said Tyler Volesky, a candidate for the House. “Campaign finance reform is important to address.”
Running with him on the District 22 Democratic ticket is Senate candidate Eric Bliss, who says the growing gap between the haves and have nots in the United States is creating “a third world country inside our own country.”
Registering people to vote – especially those struggling to survive on the state’s nine Indian reservations – “will be a big change that our state can kind of help spread,” he said.
The two candidates in the Nov. 6 election spoke at Thursday’s District 22 Democratic Forum.
Bliss calls the act of voting in elections “the ground level of our democracy. That’s where each of us gets to be in our democracy.
“We’re a citizen of our democracy,” Bliss said. “If we don’t vote, we just got kicked out of our democracy so we’re no longer citizens. We’re illegals in our own country.”
He encourages people to carry voter registration forms with them in the event they meet someone who isn’t registered. It doesn’t mean they’ll vote, but at least they’ll be able to, he said.