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posed 1-cent sales tax increase on the ballot to get extra money that would be split between education and health care.
• "I think the treatment of public education in our state is going to play a huge role in the legislative races," said Bryce Healy, executive director of the South Dakota Education, the teachers union that proposed the tax increase.
• After this year's Legislature passed Daugaard's plan to give bonuses to top teachers, recruit more teachers in critical fields and phase out teacher tenure, opponents referred that to a statewide vote on Tuesday's ballot. Democrats also referred Daugaard's plan to replace an expiring tax refund program for large construction projects with a new program that would use some money from a construction tax to give discretionary grants to projects that would not otherwise be built in the state.
• Nesselhuf said voters understand that the budget cuts hurt schools, the education plan takes away local control of schools, and the incentive program uses tax money that would better be spent on schools.
• "It doesn't hurt that Republicans have an abysmal record over the last two years in Pierre. That's what I think is really going to create some backlash," Nesselhuf said.
• David Owen, president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry who has been a backer of the incentive program for large industrial projects, said he doesn't think the program is quite so partisan an issue. People might disagree on details, he said, but about half of the Democratic legislative candidates appear to support the governor's plan.
• "I'm not sure there's that much rigidity in South Dakota political philosophy," Owen said.
• Nesselhuf said voters should send more Democrats to the Legislature to allow more ideas to surface in the House and Senate.
• "It's incredibly important that Democrats pick up seats in order to bring back two-party government to South Dakota," the Democratic Party chairman said.
• Post said voters should elect Republican lawmakers who can work with Daugaard.
• "The governor has done a lot in two years, and he wants to continue to do a lot," Post said.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A 73-year-old man has been charged with DUI after authorities say he crashed his car into two parked cars and a church office building

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