The South Dakota Democratic Party elected the following slates of delegates for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at its statewide caucus Saturday afternoon in Pierre:
| Sanders Delegates | Clinton Delegates |
| 1. Alli Moran D-28- Eagle Butte | 1. Scott Parsley D-8 – Madison |
| 2. Dylan Workman D-12 – Sioux Falls | 2. Carrie Ackerman Rice D-21 – Lake Andes |
| 3. Clara Hart D-6 - Sioux Falls | 3. Shawn Bordeaux D-26 A – Mission |
| 4. Cully Williams D-2 - Frankfort | 4. Lee Ann Pierce D-7 – Brookings |
| 5. Margaret Potts D-27 - Porcupine | 5. BJ Motley D-25 – Sioux Falls |
| 6. Miller Cannizzaro D-35 - Rapid City | 6. Cecilia Firethunder D-27 – Martin |
| 7. Allison Renville D-1 – Sisseton | 7. Jeff Wilka D-14 – Sioux Falls |
| 8. Paul Thronson D-12 - Sioux Falls | 8. Carolyn Ly D-15 – Sioux Falls |
| 9. Rachel Caesar D-34 - Rapid City | 9. Marc Feinstein D-14 – Sioux Falls |
| 10. Tom Katus D-32 – Rapid City | 10. Lorraine Walking Eagle D-26A – St. Francis |
| 11. Sierra Wolcott D-1 - Sisseston | 11. Zachary Nistler D-10 – Sioux Falls |
| 12. Jim Sanden D-12 - Sioux Falls | 12. Paula Blake D-24 – Pierre |
| 13. Monica Hale D-3 - Abeerdeen | 13. Spencer O’Hara D-13 – Sioux Falls |
| 14. Paul Schipper D-11 – Sioux Falls | 14. Heather Halverson D -11 – Sioux Falls |
| Alternates: | Alternates: |
| Ellee Spawn D-13 – Sioux Falls | Rachelle Norberg D-21 – Burke |
| John Stielow D-29 – Sturgis | Ryan Solberg D-20 – Mitchell |
The Sanders delegates include no sitting legislators. The Clinton delegates include two sitting legislators, Senator Parsley and Representative Bordeaux, and one past legislator, Feinstein.
A percentage of each of the above slates will go to the national convention in Philadelphia based on the percentage each candidate wins in the June primary. For example, if Sanders and Clinton split the vote 50–50, then the first seven Sanders delegates and the first seven Clinton delegates listed here get to go. If Sanders wins 72% of the vote and Clinton 28% (it could happen, if Democrats vote in proportion to the number of people who showed up for caucus for each candidate), then the Sanders delegates all the way down to #10, Tom Katus, would go to Philadelphia, while only the first four Clinton delegates, down to Lee Ann Pierce, go.
The South Dakota Republican Party does not elect separate slates for each candidate—and that’s probably weighing their favor this week, as I was all rarin’ to go to town on whichever delegates declared themselves members of the Trump brownshirts. The Republican delegates all swear to support whichever candidate wins a plurality in their winner-take-all primary. Thus, all 29 of these poor souls may be bound to ever sully their good names by having to nominate Donald Trump:
| Delegates | Alternates |
| Anne Beal, Colman | Jason Ravnsborg, Yankton |
| Jim Bolin, Canton | Peggy Schoon, Brandon |
| Matt Bruner, White | Lana Greenfield, Doland |
| Char Cornelius, Aberdeen | Mark Kroontje, Herreid |
| Dennis Daugaard, Pierre | Don Greenfield, Doland |
| Linda Daugaard, Pierre | Peter Burkett, Custer |
| Lynne DiSanto, Rapid City | Doug Post, Volga |
| Jason Glodt, Pierre | Debra Elliott, Belle Fourche |
| Bob Gray, Ft. Pierre | William Beal, Colman |
| Dan Hargreaves, Stickney | Joshua Klumb, Mount Vernon |
| Steve Haugaard, Sioux Falls | Karen Mondillo, Belle Fourche |
| Phil Jensen, Rapid City | Marilyn Wiese, Madison |
| Sandye Kading, Rapid city | Judy Jelbert, Spearfish |
| Isaac Latterell, Sioux Falls | Betty Wyatt, Hot Springs |
| John Meyer, Aberdeen | Kevin Nelson, Brookings |
| Roger Meyer, Yankton | Rick Vallery, Ft. Pierre |
| Nancy Neff, Sioux Falls | Linn Hendrickson, Sturgis |
| David Omdahl, Sioux Falls | Beau Byrd, White Lake |
| Dana Randall, Mina | Wayne Bierman, Aberdeen |
| Pam Roberts, Pierre | Karin Mueller, Black Hawk |
| Lance Russell, Hot Springs | E Steeves Smith, Mitchell |
| John Teupel, Spearfish | Eric Stroeder, Glenham |
| Florence Thompson, Caputa | Ron Schreiner, Ft. Pierre |
| Judy Trzynka, Watertown | Kurt Wolf, Selby |
| Allen Unruh, Sioux Falls | Wanda Howey-Fox, Yankton |
| Mike Vehle, Mitchell | Dave Gillespie, Canton |
| Dick Werner, Huron | |
| David Wheeler, Huron | |
| Hal Wick, Sioux Falls |
The GOP delegates include the Governor and his wife plus nine sitting legislators. Six of those legislators—Reps. DiSanto, Haugaard, Latterell, and Russell and Senators Jensen and Omdahl—are among the hardest (and in the case of Haugaard and Omdahl, most vile) right wingnuts in the SDGOP. Rep. Bolin isn’t far behind; moderate Rep. Werner and Senator Vehle will probably be asked to sit between them and the Governor and his insider cabal of Glodt, Gray, and Roberts.
Add Wick, Unruh, Thompson, Teupel, and Beal, and I can casually count 11 out of 29 delegates representing the hard right wing in this delegation. I invite readers (and the delegates themselves!) to identify any similar contingent of hard left-wingers in the Democratic delegations.
Ah, but will the SD delegation be bound to Trump? In the absence of any polling, 538 polled a brain trust and it appears none of them gave Montana or SD to Trump, as they are winner-take-all states next door to states that went solidly to Cruz.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-donald-trump-clinch-the-republican-nomination-before-the-convention/
But I’m skeptical that SD is as similar as neighboring states as they think.
(Note also that based on the expert pollster counts from 538, Montana or SD could make the difference between whether Trump is at 1237 pledged delegates or not…)
Ha! Cory, you didn’t get the memo??? ALL DEMS are “lefties” :)
Trump would definitely unify the Democrats no matter how close Clinton Sanders fight it out. But at least the Republican delegates are not premeditated for Trump by their being a delegate. Some may be on their own but they can all at least have an open mind(can Republicans do that) on the second ballot without any former pledging.
I watched Michael Dukakis last night on SDPB-TV. He discussed his loss in 1988 and said one of the lessons he learned too late, but which Obama demonstrated, is that a presidential race requires work in every precinct in every state. In a way supporting this, was a few words I heard on SDPB-Radio about campaign advisors mostly designing political campaigns to benefit campaign advisors rather than candidates. Pulling 15 per cent commissions from TV ads makes that campaign decision a bit too easy for consultants.
But, getting out and pounding the streets and knocking on doors and actually talking to real people has worked in the past…even in SD with McGovern and his campaign manager George V. Cunningham…and it can still work. Stephanie Herseth recruited students in her first campaign, but alienated nearly all of them with her Blue Dog shit and opposing reasonable loans and grants for students. Bernie Sanders is appealing to youth and his campaign can help candidates in South Dakota as well. Dukakis said it would be a real shame (not his exact words) if Democrats did not exploit the chaos in the GOP to get congress realigned with a Democratic President. I agree.
Douglas, good advice from Dukakis! Exploit chaos, knock on doors, take back Congress!