NOTE: This is the first of two stories looking at the candidates running for South Dakota’s lone U.S. House seat.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — For the first time in three election cycles , there will be a Democrat along with a Republican candidate for U.S. House on South Dakota’s November ballot.
Republican incumbent Dusty Johnson has served as the state’s lone voice in the U.S. House since early 2019, but Sheryl Johnson of Sioux Falls wants to supplant him.
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“I’m a farmer’s daughter, I’m a former Navy wife, and I’m the mother of four daughters, and I’m running for Congress because I am fed up with the fact that they don’t get anything done,” said Johnson, who has worked in education and as a small business owner.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 motivates her candidacy.
“I felt very betrayed when that was overturned because it’s not about abortion to me,” Sheryl Johnson said. “It’s about a fact that it took away the woman’s right to make a decision, and I don’t think government should have the power to make decisions for women.”