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downtown Sioux Falls, a Web design and development company. Partner and creative director Karla Santi said the firm that has grown to 17 employees has clients around the U.S. and internationally, so an open Internet is vital.
• "That's how we started and that's what we would like to fight for, as well," she said.
• Leigh Freund, vice president and chief counsel in global public policy at AOL, said the company sees Thune as an ally because of his support for the technology industry and desire for minimal regulation.
• "He gets that regulation can stand in the way," said Myriah Jordan, a public policy manager with Facebook.
• Thune didn't respond in detail to the net neutrality issue but said he doesn't want companies to be subject to "Ma Bell regulations," referring to rules that once controlled the telephone industry.
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South Dakota governor has $1.6M for re-election
DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard has amassed more than $1.6 million in his re-election campaign account heading toward the June 3 primary, far exceeding his Republican challenger and two Democratic hopefuls.
• Daugaard, who took office in 2011, raised more than $272,000 during the month and a half ending in mid-May with the majority coming from individual contributions, according to his pre-primary election report filed with the South Dakota Secretary of State's office. A supplemental report shows another $6,000 in contributions.
• The 60-year-old governor also took in $14,000 from in-state political action committees, $5,000 from Sen. John Thune's Heartland Values PAC and more than $4,200 from the Wyoming Refining Co. PAC. He spent $348,000 during the period.
• Daugaard, who previously spent eight years as Gov. Mike Rounds' lieutenant governor, is being challenged on the Republican ticket by former state Rep. Lora Hubbel of Sioux Falls.
• Hubbel raised about $20,000 during the period, all in individual contributions. She spent about $23,000 and showed an ending balance of about $2,200 in her latest report.
• Hubbel, 56, owns a real estate business and has worked at a nurse and a teacher. She served in the South Dakota House for one term, in 2011-12.
• The Democratic primary will feature two candidates: Joe Lowe, the former head of the state wildfire agency, and state Rep. Susan Wismer, of Britton.
• Lowe collected nearly $33,000 in contributions and spent $17,600 during the pe (Continued on page 20)
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