For South Dakota · House District 32
Father · Businessman · Community Advocate
Strong Families.
Strong South Dakota.
I'm running to serve the heart of Rapid City because the families of District 32 deserve a representative who reads every bill, listens to neighbors, and shows up.
On November 3rd, you have two votes for the House in District 32.I would be honored to earn one of them.
Add your name and tell us how you want to help. We'll send yard signs, volunteer shifts, and a reminder before you vote on November 3, 2026.
Three fights for District 32 families
“Government should live within the means of the people it serves.”
“Lower recidivism. People come back as neighbors.”
“Parents decide. Teachers teach. Bureaucracy stays aside.”
The four amendments on your ballot
What each one does, why, the other side's best argument, and how District 32's current lawmakers voted to put them in front of you.
Read the ballot guideTribal relations
Rapid City's Native community lives in this district, from North Rapid to downtown. Here is what I will carry to Pierre for it, with the bill numbers, and how to grade me on it.
The case for change
The 2026 session passed a general appropriations bill 50 to 17 in the House and 25 to 9 in the Senate. The 2025 session expanded the state employee rolls again. Sales tax is climbing in 2027 to chase property tax relief that should have been won by structural reform. The accountability scorecards keep slipping. And the bills that actually protect South Dakota families, like the Rights of a Parent bill that died in the House by five votes on March 3, 2026, keep getting pushed off the floor.
Strong conservative principles built South Dakota. Government bureaucracy is not what protects them. The job of a state representative is to bring sound, principled solutions to the floor and stand by them, not to manage the status quo.
District 32 deserves a representative who shows up with a complete agenda. Fifteen policy pillars. Real bills. Real votes. Real reform, not vibes.
The Platform
Every position is principle-first, grounded in specific South Dakota bills, and built to become law in the 2027 session.
Tough on violent crime. Smart on the rest. Back the blue. Back the Bill of Rights. Hard on violent crime, child exploitation, and trafficking. Smart sentencing reform so non-violent offenders come home stronger, not worse.
Parents decide. Teachers teach. Students learn. Bureaucracy steps aside. Curriculum transparency by law. Cap administrator pay while teachers are underpaid. Ban school funds from political lobbying. Funding follows the student: true school choice.
Due process is the line. Conviction yes, accusation no. Expand lawful firearm rights. Hard line against red flag laws. Rights are removed only through conviction with full due process. Never by accusation alone.
Religious liberty is the law, not the exception to it. The First Amendment protects belief AND practice. Conscience protection for medical professionals, counselors, teachers, business owners, and faith-based adoption and foster agencies.
Government should live within the means of the people it serves. Protect South Dakota's no-income-tax foundation. Aggressive property tax relief. Stop the headcount-and-spending growth that's quietly inflating Pierre.
Your land is your land. Lock eminent-domain protections into the South Dakota Constitution. No private gain via government taking. Stand explicitly against the Summit Carbon CO2 pipeline model.
The body is the citizen's, not the state's. No medical mandates. Conscience protection for providers. Honest food labeling: lab-grown is not meat. Respect voters on medical marijuana; strengthen the program with real doctor-patient standards.
Life begins at conception, and the Constitution protects it. Parenting is a fundamental right subject to strict scrutiny. Fit mothers and fit fathers stand equal under the law. Our signature legislative fight is comprehensive family court reform.
Signature FightThe choice in District 32
South Dakota House districts elect two representatives, not one. In District 32 your November ballot will have four names, and you can mark two. Read the record before you mark either.
Fifteen pillars, an eleven-bill family court reform stack, an affordability agenda for the people who rent, and seven commitments to Rapid City's Native community, all published on this site. Two sessions in Pierre as a citizen advocate, working bills. Grade me on what is written here.
Every vote below is from the Legislature's own roll calls. I respect them both. This is how they voted.
One lens among many: South Dakota Citizens for Liberty rated Duffy 40.7 percent in 2025 and 16.0 percent in 2026, and Uhre-Balk 18.5 and 15.4. Roll calls: sdlegislature.gov.
The District 32 ballot will also include Samuel Hare Sr. (Independent). Hare has no legislative voting record. We will publish a substantive position-by-position comparison as the campaign progresses.
My personal fight
The 15-pillar platform is the campaign. Family court reform is personal. It is the issue I have personally fought to pass for two consecutive sessions in Pierre as a citizen advocate, and it is the agenda I will finish in the 2027 session if District 32 sends me there.
A rebuttable presumption of joint physical custody. Fit mothers and fit fathers stand equal at the start of every case. South Dakota has come close. The next session is the one that finishes the job.
Send me to Pierre. South Dakota becomes the 7th state in the country with a Shared Parenting presumption for children and families.
Current 6 states: Kentucky, Arkansas, West Virginia, Florida, Missouri, Mississippi (HB 1662, effective July 1, 2026).
Shared Parenting is the start. The full reform agenda is eleven named bills adapted for South Dakota from the national family court reform movement. Mandatory timelines. Cameras in courtrooms. Real consequences for false allegations. A capstone bill that anchors due process in family court.
Join the team
Door by door. Neighbor by neighbor. Yard sign by yard sign. This is a grassroots campaign for the heart of Rapid City, and that is exactly what it takes to win District 32.