Days before the primary election, a Republican candidate for South Dakota’s open US Senate seat says she’s arranging her own candidate forum.
Annette Bosworth says she has purchased ad time on television and plans to post the full discussion on YouTube. She says one fellow candidate has expressed interest, but she doesn’t have details about the debate’s participants, format, time or date. Bosworth says the one statewide forum with all five Senate candidates on SDPB-TV lacked topics important to South Dakota Republicans.
"I think there are several issues that haven’t been touched on. Discussing further how our military would be addressed in the next cycle for a Senate candidate. How our schools and several of those issues. Even though there are state issues that have been very prevalent in our papers, I think there is a discussion about how much should be here in South Dakota and in the local decisions and which decisions should be further away. Where is that balance?" Bosworth says.
Bosworth faces four other Republicans for the party nomination. Governor Mike Rounds, State Senator Larry Rhoden, State Representative Stace Nelson and Jason Ravnsborg are also campaigning for the seat. The primary election is Tuesday.