House hopefuls stake out positions

[Freddie Stubbs]

By Denise Ross, Journal Staff Writer

Stephanie Herseth and Larry Diedrich tried to claim ground with senior citizens, ranchers and American Indians on Wednesday in the first House race debate broadcast statewide.

Herseth, a Democrat, and Diedrich, a Republican, face each other in a special election on Tuesday, June 1. They will meet again in the November general election.

They are competing to serve the remaining four months of Republican Bill Janklow's term. Janklow resigned in January.

Herseth put tweaks to the new Medicare reform at the top of her to-do list, if elected.

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[sd_UDO]

1. Herseth staked out a lead and never lost it.

Daschle's race was pretty close all the way, due to the HUMuNGOUS
funding of Thune, all of his stupid ads.

Wanna OutBLUE people in a Red County? Check out my Yahoo Group--

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sd_democrats_UDO /

Let's start a state wide UDO (ultra Democratic organization)--

first elections December 2004!

(Anyone can join the Yahoo group)

Thanks!