CPAC Releases South Dakota Legislative Scorecard, Revealing A Fractured Republican Legislature. 

ALEXANDRIA, VA (June 15, 2023) — CPAC Foundation’s analysis reveals that South Dakota Republicans greatly varied in their range of scores. Some legislators scored as low as 29% and others as high as 100%.

SEE THE SCORECARD HERE

Several South Dakota state legislators are recognized by CPAC for their conservative voting records based on a just-released analysis from CPAC Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability.

The following members of the South Dakota State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Excellence for voting with the conservative position at least 90% of the time during the 2022 session:

Senate:

Julie Frye-Mueller (100%)

Jim Stalzer (94%)

Margaret Sutton (94%)

House:

Elizabeth May (100%)

Jon Hansen (94%)

Steven Haugaard (94%)

Taffy Howard (94%)

Kevin Jensen (94%)

Phil Jensen (94%)

Sam Marty (94%)

Scott Odenbach (94%)

Marty Overweg (94%)

The following members of the South South Dakota State Legislature earned CPAC’s Award for Conservative Achievement for voting with the conservative position at least 80% of the time during the 2022 session:

Senate:

Brock Greenfield (88%)

John Bolin (81%)

Lee Schoenbeck (81%)

Marsha Symens (81%)

House:

Aaron Aylward (88%)

Fred Deutsch (88%)

Lana Greenfield (88%)

Randy Gross (88%)

Chris Karr (88%)

Trish Ladner (88%)

John Mills (88%)

Tina Mulally (88%)

Tom Pischke (88%)

Tony Randolph (88%)

Bethany Soye (88%)

Kaleb Weis (88%)

Arch Beal (82%)

Drew Dennert (82%)

Mary Fitzgerald (82%)

Rhonda Milstead (82%)

Carl Perry (82%)

Caleb Finck (81%)

Sue Peterson (81%)

The bills featured in CPAC’s 2022 Ratings of South Dakota address property rights, taxes, protecting women’s sports, Second Amendment rights, and parental rights.  These issues, coupled with our mission to protect life, liberty, property and uphold the American family, created the basis by which the CPAC Foundation rated the South Dakota legislature.

The Center for Legislative Accountability (CLA), an initiative of the CPAC Foundation, is the premier organization for holding lawmakers accountable. The CLA produces the longest-running conservative congressional scorecard and our state program is the only one in the nation that scores all 8,000 lawmakers in the 50 states across every policy area.

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