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PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Gov. Larry Rhoden might soon become the last of his kind in South Dakota.
That’s because a proposal to change how lieutenant governor candidates are picked has made its way through the Legislature.
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If Rhoden signs House Bill 1164 into law, the days of political parties choosing lieutenant governors at their summer conventions will become a thing of the past.
HB 1164 calls for the candidates for governor to choose their running mates no later than the second Tuesday of August before the election.
It comes in the wake of a political fight at the 2022 Republican convention in Watertown.
Incumbent Gov. Kristi Noem had defeated Republican Rep. Steven Haugaard in the June primary and she wanted Rhoden to continue as her lieutenant governor.
But many of the convention delegates wanted Haugaard to be her running mate instead.
The situation led to Noem needing to give a speech on the convention floor asking delegates to support Rhoden, and he went on to secure the nomination.
Rhoden became governor in January, after the U.S. Senate confirmed Noem as the new federal Homeland Security secretary.
The Legislature had struggled the past two years over changing the process of how candidates for lieutenant governors are chosen. The side wanting to keep the choice in the hands of the convention delegates repeatedly won.
This year looked like a repeat when HB 1164 failed to get out of its House committee hearing.
But its prime sponsor, Republican Rep. Tim Goodwin, found a way to revive it.
Goodwin rounded up enough support on the House floor to force the committee to release the bill. It came out without recommendation, meaning it needed a vote on whether it should be debated. If that vote failed, the bill was dead.
But the vote came out 43-27 to put it on the debate calendar. From there, the bill found new life and surged through the House 45-25. The Senate on Tuesday voted 22-12 for final legislative approval.
And sitting quietly in the Senate gallery, watching by herself, was First Lady Sandy Rhoden.
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