Saturday, June 2, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 324 • 25 of 49 • Other Editions
SD Democrats in US House race stress differences
CHET BROKAW,Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- On paper, Matt Varilek and Jeff Barth couldn't be more different. • Varilek touts working his way through several colleges before spending nearly eight years employed by several U.S. senators. Barth is equally proud that he's had little to do with Congress in his three decades as a telephone company technician and six years as a county commissioner. • Varilek, 37, grew up in a lower-income family in Yankton and worked hard to gain
several college degrees, including a master's degree from Cambridge University in England. • Barth was the Minneapolis-born son of a diplomat and spent his childhood in places such as Germany, Iceland and South Africa. He briefly attended college but never graduated, instead becoming a technician for Northwestern Bell, which eventually became Qwest. • Each candi
