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Making Waves Podcast
by Dave Roetman
Culture, tradition, and politics daveroetman.substack.com
Episodes
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From the Battlefield to the Ballot Box: Kerry Loudenslager for District 12
Kerry Loudenslager is a Republican running for the South Dakota House in District 12, which is split almost evenly between Minnehaha and Lincoln counties in Sioux Falls. He was born in Sioux Falls, grew up in Brewster, Minnesota, where his father was the school superintendent, and graduated from...
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It's Your Money: Melissa Hull on the Treasurer's Office and Amendment K
Melissa Hull, the Republican nominee for South Dakota State Treasurer, joins me to explain an office most people never think about until something goes wrong. Melissa has spent nearly eight years as Treasury Manager under Treasurer Josh Haeder, running the state's banking: every tax dollar and...
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Closing the Loophole: Sen. Taffy Howard Explains Amendment J (and Why She's Yes on K and I)
Sen. Taffy Howard of District 34, the prime sponsor of Amendment J, joins me to explain why South Dakota needs to say plainly in its Constitution that only U.S. citizens can vote. Right now our Constitution guarantees the vote to citizens, but it never says non-citizens can’t vote. J closes that...
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Only Citizens Vote, and Hands Off Your Money: Sen. Kevin Jensen on Amendments J and K
Sen. Kevin Jensen of District 16 joins me to talk about two short amendments on this November’s ballot, and I think both are no-brainers. Amendment J writes into our state constitution that non-citizens can’t vote, so a future legislature can’t undo it just by repealing a statute. Amendment K…
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Amendment I Explained: Sen. Kevin Jensen on Medicaid Expansion and the 90% Federal Match
Sen. Kevin Jensen of District 16, who has chaired Health and Human Services in the South Dakota House and Senate for eight years, joins Dave Roetman to explain Amendment I. The Legislature placed it on the ballot, and it would end expanded Medicaid coverage if the federal share of funding drops...
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Rep. John Hughes on Amendment L: Why It Should Take 60% to Change Our Constitution
Rep. John Hughes (District 13), who wrote Amendment L, explains why changing the South Dakota Constitution should take 60% of the vote instead of a simple majority. We talk about what L does and doesn't do, the L-No ads, and the outside money behind ballot campaigns. This is a public episode. If...
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Interview with Dale Bartscher, Associate Director of SD Right to Life and Candidate for District 35 House
Dale Bartscher, Associate Director and lobbyist for South Dakota Right to Life and a candidate for House District 35, joins Dave Roetman to review the 2026 legislative session. Bartscher describes three pro-life bills that passed: HB 1257, clarifying that miscarriage treatment and ectopic...
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Interview: National Committeewoman Heidi Engelhart
Heidi Engelhart, National Committeewoman for the South Dakota Republican Party, joins Dave Roetman after a Republican National Committee meeting where members voted to hold a midterm convention, with the time and place not yet released. Engelhart then walks through three federal election bills…
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Update From the SD Capitol From President Pro Tem Senator Chris Karr
Senator Chris Karr, President Pro Tem of the South Dakota Senate, joins Dave Roetman for a quick update from the Capitol during the 2026 session. Karr discusses a bill from Senator Pischke to allow mourning doves to be hunted in the road right-of-way, and his own appropriation for buffer strips…
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Interview: Amanda Radke
Amanda Radke, a grassroots property rights activist, joins Dave Roetman to discuss American Land and Legacy, the new landowner organization she helped start, and the property rights rally held at the Capitol Rotunda the day before the 2026 session. Radke explains HJR 5001, sponsored by...
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Interview with Senator Mykala Voita, District 21
Senator Mykala Voita of South Dakota Senate District 21 joins Dave Roetman to discuss her work on the Appropriations Committee during the 2026 session. Voita reports on a summer study of community support providers, which serve people with intellectual and behavioral disabilities and would be…
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What is the Future Fund? Small Town Nursing Homes Shutting Their Doors - What Can Be Do?
Representative Marty Overweg of South Dakota House District 21, the Assistant House Majority Leader, joins Dave Roetman early in the 2026 session to discuss the Future Fund and small-town nursing homes. Overweg explains that the Future Fund, funded by about $24 million a year from unemployment...
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What is ALEC? Interview: Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams, President and Chief Economist of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), joins Dave Roetman from Washington, D.C., to explain what ALEC does. Williams describes ALEC, founded in 1973 by conservative state legislators, as a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to limited...
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Take Action Against Human Trafficking in South Dakota
Becky Rasmussen, founder of Call to Freedom, and Rachel Foltz, its director of impact and program relations, join Dave Roetman to discuss human trafficking in South Dakota. Rasmussen explains that the nonprofit, established in 2016, has served nearly 1,800 people, now has 28 staff and a new Rapid...
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Interview: Rep. Tesa Schwans District 9
Representative Tesa Schwans of South Dakota House District 9, a cosmetologist and small business owner, joins Dave Roetman to discuss her legislative work. Schwans describes serving on the Teacher Compensation Review Board, whose recommendations included reviewing salary formulas and expanding...
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Interview with Senator Carl Perry District 3
Senator Carl Perry of South Dakota Senate District 3, the Senate Assistant Majority Leader, joins Dave Roetman to discuss his committee work and issues facing the 2026 session. Perry reviews his committees, the well-funded South Dakota Retirement System, and his work on an interim study on...
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Interview: Senator Mykala Voita, District 21
Senator Mykala Voita of South Dakota Senate District 21, a first-term member of the Appropriations Committee, joins Dave Roetman to give an overview of the state budget ahead of the 2026 session. Voita notes that 43% of South Dakota’s budget comes from federal funding, down from a COVID-era…
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Interview with Rep. Scott Odenbach and Sen. Chris Karr
House Majority Leader Scott Odenbach and Senate President Pro Tempore Chris Karr, both members of South Dakota’s Property Tax Relief Task Force, join Dave Roetman to discuss the task force’s work ahead of the 2026 session. Karr describes property taxes as a complex web and says the task force...
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School Choice in South Dakota, and What Does AFP Do?
Jennifer Beving, Deputy Director of Americans for Prosperity South Dakota, joins Dave Roetman to discuss school choice, property taxes and advocacy for taxpayers. A former practicing attorney from Rapid City, Beving explains how she became a homeschooling parent and helped draft and lobby for...
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Interview with Representative Greg Jamison
Representative Greg Jamison of South Dakota House District 12 joins Dave Roetman to discuss the recent prison vote in the special session and his work on property tax transparency. Jamison, who served on the prison reset task force, explains how concerns about spending, location and the number of...
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Interview: Matt Hurley on Political Campaigns and Marketing
Matt Hurley, a political consultant with Southeast Strategies, joins Dave Roetman to discuss political campaigns, marketing and the 2026 South Dakota governor’s race. Hurley describes growing up in southwestern Florida and coming into politics through marketing and social media, and says his firm...
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Taffy on TIFs - Why It Matters to You
Senator Taffy Howard of South Dakota Senate District 34 joins Dave Roetman to explain tax increment financing (TIF) and a citizen petition drive in Rapid City. Howard describes how TIFs were created in the late 1970s to help redevelop blighted areas, how the base and increment values work, and…
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Interview: Representative Bobbi Andera
Representative Bobbi Andera of South Dakota House District 10 joins Dave Roetman to discuss her work on the Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee, over-the-counter medications and the upcoming special legislative session on the prison. Andera says the committee, chaired by Representative…
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Interview: Don Haggar
Don Haggar, a former South Dakota House speaker pro tem now with Americans for Prosperity, joins Dave Roetman to announce his run for the Public Utilities Commission and discuss state energy policy. Haggar explains that the three-member commission oversees utilities ranging from grain warehousing...
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Interview: Representative Jack Kolbeck, District 13
Representative Jack Kolbeck of South Dakota House District 13, a member of the Appropriations Committee, joins Dave Roetman to discuss campaigning, the state budget, the prison and possible legislation. Kolbeck recalls entering politics as a senator in 2016, serving eight years in the Senate, and...
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Should Local Government Be Involved in Non-Profit Fundraising?
Dan Goeller, founder of Leninists on the Prairie, joins Dave Roetman after speaking at a Minnehaha County Commission meeting to question the county’s support for the Sioux Empire United Way’s workplace fundraising campaign. Goeller says Joe Kippley was dismissive of residents who gave public...
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Interview with Senator Kevin Jensen
South Dakota State Senator Kevin Jensen (District 16) joins Dave Roetman for the second part of a series on the proposed new state prison ahead of a special legislative session. Jensen, who co-chairs the Initial Incarceration Reentry Committee with Representative Jamison, says South Dakota’s...
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Interview with State Senator Amber Hulse of District 30
South Dakota State Senator Amber Hulse (District 30), an attorney with the Dhillon law firm, joins Dave Roetman to talk about property taxes, the Hot Springs VA hospital, 2024 election integrity work and lawfare against President Trump. Hulse says rising home sale prices in her district have…
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Interview with Senator Kevin Jensen
In the first of a three-part series on South Dakota’s prison plans, Senator Kevin Jensen (District 16) tells Dave Roetman where the proposed new prison stands after the Legislature did not approve the spending. Jensen recounts the problems with the original Lincoln County site and argues the…
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Paying the Price for Being Forthright
Nate Welch, former director of marketing for the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED), talks with Dave Roetman at Caribou Coffee about paying a price for being forthright. A fifth-generation South Dakotan and former KDLT and KSFY reporter who later led the Vermillion Chamber and...
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Interview: Senator Taffy Howard
Senator Taffy Howard (District 34) talks with Dave Roetman about fiscal issues in the South Dakota Legislature. Howard explains how frustration over a major tax increase led her to run, her six years in the House, and her return to the Senate after redistricting. She describes her years-long push...
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Interview: Representative Logan Manhart
South Dakota Representative Logan Manhart (District 1) joins Dave Roetman to look back on his first legislative session, the 100th session in 2025. Manhart, who represents rural Brown County outside Aberdeen along with Day, Marshall and most of Roberts counties, calls the session a mixed bag: HB...
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Interview with Toby Doeden
Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden joins Dave Roetman to talk about his background, how he got into politics and the issues he sees ahead of South Dakota’s 2026 governor’s race. Doeden describes growing up in Groton and buying his first home for $4,000, and says he got involved about two years ago,...
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Interview with Representative Richard Vasgaard, District 16
South Dakota Representative Richard Vasgaard (District 16), a farmer from north of Centerville with an agronomy degree from SDSU, joins Dave Roetman to discuss the CO2 pipeline, libraries, the Electoral College and the state budget. Vasgaard explains his concerns about carbon capture, including...
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Marty Jackley: Progress In Addressing Government Accountability and Human Trafficking
* SB 58 revises provisions related to human trafficking, prohibits the obstruction of human trafficking enforcement, and provides a penalty therefor * SB 59 revises provisions relating to the delivery, possession with intent to deliver, and possession of unauthorized articles in a state...
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Issues in the News - Incarceration, Property Rights, Economic Development and the Budget
“We need to get a grip on our budget. We need to recognize that we are essentially a a welfare state… We’re worse than we were a few years ago as far as dependency on Federal dollars. And that has to end.” - Steve Haugaard “We have 146 maximum security inmates in Jamison the new unit down there…
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Transparency is for Government
“Some of the best story tips that I ever got. writing in journalism, over the last several years came from ordinary people.” - Austin Goss Austin Goss discusses transparency in government, and a recent hit piece about him for his stories about government credit card expenditures. Kristi Noem...
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Its Kind of a Big Deal - Commissioner of School and Public Lands
School and Public Lands Website: sdpublicland.sd.gov HB 1026 - make an appropriation for the replacement of the Richmond Lake dam and spillway, for the general maintenance and repair of other state-owned dams, and to declare an emergency. HB 1266 - attach the South Dakota State Brand Board to the...
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Why South Dakota Needs an Unclaimed Property Trust Fund
“Over the last decade… we receded in about $1.5 Billion, that is with a B, we still have claimable by rightful owners $1.2 Billion. Now, get this. Most people ask me how much money we have earned on that money over the years, they are flabbergasted when I say ZERO. 100% of that $1.2 Billion has...
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Game Changing Election Integrity Bills in the Legislature Right Now
“You’ve got to realize there are 50,000 [people] that are registered to vote with a PO Box only.” - Tony Kayser HB 1066J revise residency requirements for the purposes of voter registration. HB 1208B provide for registration of an overseas citizen or individual using the address of a mail...
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Interview with Austin Goss, Political Reporter for the Dakota Scout
SD 60 expand the access and investigatory authority of the state auditor. Marty Jackley’s testimony on SB 60 HJR 5007 Resolution to put on the ballot substantial changes in Spending oversight authority. HB 1052 prohibit the exercise of eminent domain for a pipeline that carries carbon oxide. This...
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Age Verification, Baby Boxes, and Culture Wars. Oh, my!
Representative Bethany Soye has been a leader in the SD Legislature and in statewide issues such Help, not Harm and the recently defeated Amendment H. HB 1053 https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25525 HB 1044 https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/25473 HB 1239...
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Hot Topics: Property Taxes, Carbon Pipeline, and the Proposed Prison
“The vast majority of folks, and they were going around talking to people, campaigning, door knocking, that type of deal - the number one thing I think everyone heard was the property tax issue, that property taxes were too high.” - Aaron Aylward HB 1052 prohibit the exercise of eminent domain…
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South Dakota's Proposed Prison Boondoggle
“It is the most expensive building project for Corrections that I have ever come across, ever read about, and I couldn’t even imagine.” - Doug Weber, former Chief Warden and Director of Adult Corrections of South Dakota boondoggle [ boon-dog-uhl, -daw-guhl ] noun * a wasteful and worthless…
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HJR 5003 - Raising the Threshold to Change the Constitution
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit patriotrippleeffectsd.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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Is Medical Cost Transparency Possible in South Dakota?
New Hampshire medical cost transparency site https://nhhealthcost.nh.gov/ Patients Rights Advocate https://www.patientrightsadvocate.org/seventh-semi-annual-hospital-price-transparency-report-november-2024 Background information: "In November of 2023, CMS finalized requirements for hospitals to...
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What is a Convention of States, anyway?
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” - Ronald Reagan Convention of States Action website: https://conventionofstates.com/ (link) Email:...
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Interview: Heidi Engelhart
Voice of the Plains blog and podcast (link) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit patriotrippleeffectsd.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...
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What Makes a Good Legislator?
“You will find most of the more well respected legislators… are not necessarily based on political philosophy or ideology but its their work ethic. Do they write their own bills, do they work hard on that, do they lobby their colleagues, do they show up on time?” - Brent Hoffman This is a public...
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Minnehaha Auditor Leah Anderson Interview
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