Minnehaha County

There's this a stream where they have extreme distrust of the tabulators that are used in this.

And it was interesting because, you know, Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson has kind of come it came into office with those same wins behind her.

And she recently had had a op ed in the Dakota Scout about how.

You know, hand counting ballots, which is something she advocated for at times would be too costly for a bigger, bigger counties like Minnehaha County.

But for smaller counties, it makes sense because then they don't have to have these expensive machines.

And I didn't think about this, but like Betty and Thelma to.

And, and, In the wisdom of the legislators, they said, we're not going to deal with this twice.

So that would have forced our 66 county auditors to actually count ballots by hand, which in Minnehaha, which is the largest county, then you're looking at Pennington County, we'd be counting all the way to next month.

I don't think it's, you know, I just don't think it's a good option.

You know, our county auditor here, Leah Anderson, she spoke out against that.

But I am not alone.

We have return guest, uh, soon to have a really boring job potentially, uh, Public Utilities Commission candidate, former lawmaker, former AFP director, f- current father, uh, state's attorney of Minnehaha County.

One other title, husband.

So many titles.

We're here with our good friends and many times returning guests, your lieutenant governor, Tony Van Huysen, as well as the owner and proprietor of Dakota War College, the ungovernable Pat Powers, and of course, our host in the West, Brad Murdock-Jorgensen.

Everybody? We got a senator, excuse me, former senator, headed to a trial, a jury trial here in Minnehaha County.

This isn't like a due time situation, is it? Like, is he going to have to do 30 days like James Villalata because he got assaulted at the dollar store or whatever?

You know, I don't know that Tom's been quite that intractable yet.

to be a plea deal? Like, what happened here? I

thought this was going to be a plea.

Well, and that's what Dan Hager, the Minnehaha County State's attorney, had noted, that he anticipated there would be a plea deal, and apparently not.

Tom got

They're playing for 2.2 million, so the winner gets 330,000, which is chicken feed compared to what the big guys are going for.

And they're playing at the Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Oh.

Now, here's a trivia question for you.

Okay.

Who was known as Minnehaha in Edmonton, became a famous coach?

Ugh.

Minnehaha?