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hasn't mastered being in two places at once.
• -- SUMMED UP IN A QUOTE:
• "I have a life experience of living and running businesses and raising my family in South Dakota."
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• MATT VARILEK
• -- MATT VARILEK: GROWN FROM MODEST ROOTS
• Born May 19, 1975 in Yankton in a low-income household, Varilek worked his way through college, getting a bachelor's degree from Carleton College in 1997, a master's in economic development from Scotland's University of Glasgow in 1999 and a master's in environment and development from England's Cambridge University in 2002. He worked as an analyst in an energy commodities brokerage before working for several U.S. senators. Living with his wife and two daughters in Sioux Falls, the 37-year-old Democrat traveled South Dakota working with local officials as Sen. Tim Johnson's economic development director in 2007-2011.
• -- VARILEK'S VIEW OF OPPONENT
• Varilek charges that Noem has slacked off in Washington because she failed to attend many committee meetings and was unable to get a farm bill passed. He says he's worked hard his whole life "like most South Dakotans have."
• --VARILEK ON TAXES
• Varilek supports raising income taxes on individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 a year. He would exempt most families from the federal inheritance tax, but believes it should be levied on extremely wealthy people.
• -- ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
• Varilek tells voters he understands them because he's worked hard to rise from modest beginnings to join the middle class. He shrugs off the GOP's criticism of his overseas education and says he's a fourth-generation South Dakotan familiar with the state's issues.
• -- SUMMED UP IN A QUOTE
• "I will be a voice for middle-class South Dakotans and ensure we no longer have a member of Congress that favors the wealthiest individuals and corporations above all else."
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Keystone man has pleaded guilty in the illegal kill

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