Governor Larry Rhoden finished last in Brookings County’s gubernatorial primary vote:
| Dusty Johnson | 29.3% |
| Toby Doeden | 27.1% |
| Jon Hansen | 22.1% |
| Larry Rhoden | 21.4% |
Behind Jon Hansen? Ouch—that’s gotta sting.
But Governor Rhoden is working to reverse his fortunes with Brookings’s discerning voters. Sure, Brookings is filled with educated, sensible, good-hearted people with a keen bent toward practical policy-making, but Rhoden knows the surest way to Brookings’s heart—eat at Nick’s!
The Rhodens visited Nick’s Hamburger Shop after the Doeden campaign falsely accused Rhoden of supporting lab-grown meat. But I bet Larry would have stopped at Nick’s regardless of the latest lies from Doeden’s mouth.