Closing Statements (and then cookies!)

Scott Parsley:

• Forums like this important: we need chance to share with you our vision for South Dakota
• We need to hear your questions so we know what's on your mind and how we can address your concerns. That's a legislator's job
• I want to represent all of the people of District 8.

Russell Olson:

• Thanks for the opportuntity, thanks wife Jenny.
  

Mitch Fargen:

• I'm new, so I like getting out and meeting everyone. Look forward to more door-to-door.

Patricia Stricherz:

• Look forward to your support in November.

Jerry Johnson:

• First chance to get to know Patricia and Mitch
• Fun to be here with Gerry after sitting in Gerry's classes long ago (Gerry adds Jerry is "a heck of a tennis player!")
• Not about party, but about hard work, understanding issues, moving forward in positive direction

Gerry Lange:

• "We hold those truths to be self-evident, that all men (and women!) are created equal..."
• Rotary: "service above self", give primacy to human and spiritual values, not material values
• that's what politics should be about, public service
• unfortunately, it's too often about pandering for votes
• 30 years of one-party government in South Dakota bad
• change would be useful!