In a mostly fluffy WNAX interview, Speaker G. Mark Mickelson (R-13/Sioux Falls) suggests the only problem children in his caucus are legislators who don’t do their homework:
What really gets in the way is if you have a legislator that has not done their homework and is trying to grab a headline with some hot-button issue…. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with the issue or not; if the legislator has not done their homework, that aggravates all of us, or almost all of us [Rep. G. Mark Mickelson, transcribed from audio, “Differences of Opinion Among SD Republican Legislators,” WNAX, 2018.01.03].
Grabbing for headlines with a hot-button issue but not doing homework… hmm… like when legislator Al Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen) cites a fake news article to claim Sharia Law has taken over an American city? You’re right—that does aggravate us… or almost all of us.