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Ernie Otten

Ernie Otten

Member of the South Dakota State Senate

Aug 28, 2026

11:40
Is that kind of where we're at now? Do we fund right now at
11:43
all? That is exactly where we're at right now.
11:49
One of the complexities of this is you've got folks that have been running these services well into the late, early 50s, 1950, and they've always done it their way.
12:06
It's more or less, you know, shut your yaps up there and peer, just give us the money.
12:11
And we've reached that point in time where, all right, if we've got to pick up this stick, we've got to get some guarantees on how we're going to run this thing.
12:20
So we're into billing.
12:23
Excuse me, my charm is going off.

39 MINS LATER

50:58
And maybe it's not shocking we're not hearing some hot red meat issue being talked about right now because people are more focused on... and then we're focused on governing South Dakota versus Army issues maybe.
48:08
He did get the outcome he wanted.
48:11
they've been howling down there that it's always a three, two volt.
48:15
Well, at the end of the day, what you're wanting to do is change the three, two volt to a three, two volt.
48:20
Right.
48:20
I mean, you just want another side of the equation.
48:24
And so the thing that you've got to keep advised in my mind is, And I've told a lot of folks this back at home is we have a tendency that, you know, I've lived there all my life.
48:36
NT at the time I was born had about 150 people in it.
52:27
happens for a reason.

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