https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/billie-sutton-south-dakota-anti-corruption_us_5bdcc4ebe4b04367a87c9abd?fbclid=IwAR2-tM9INepdCspkqU62kE_z-rSh6I2Nq_94ejKdjBT88B2G_Hwc7CV9IaE
"After years of reports about corrupt state officials defrauding the government, South Dakota’s Republican lawmakers in 2017 called an emergency session of the Legislature. The goal? To squash a referendum the state’s voters had passed just months earlier to impose stringent new ethics and campaign finance rules. Now, the Democrat who led the fight against the Republicans’ brazen move is using an anti-corruption message to mount a surprisingly competitive campaign to become the state’s next governor. Billie Sutton, a 34-year-old rancher, former rodeo competitor and state senator, is promising his first order of business as governor will be to make South Dakota’s government more transparent and reform its campaign finance laws. It’s a nonpartisan policy, embraced by Democratic, Republican and independent voters across the state, and it could help push Sutton over the top in a state that leans heavily Republican."
