Note: This is the first of a two part series on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth. This first article concentrates on why she is.

Convicted rapist and former state legislator Ted Klaudt has filed an action in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls requesting the federal court remove an unaccepted action he attempted to file with the South Dakota Supreme Court. On Aug. 1, Klaudt unsuccessfully tried to file a "motion to vacate opinion" with the state Supreme Court.

Convicted rapist and former state legislator Ted Klaudt has filed an action in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series of first-person accounts by South Dakotan Todd Epp about his recent time spent in Iraq as a legal consultant. Look for further installments in future editions of The Daily Republic. One month after United States and coalition forces left Iraq, I moved there to be a legal consultant at an airport.

'Ah, Maggie, in the world of advertising, there's no such thing as a lie, there's only the expedient exaggeration. You ought to know that!" -- Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, protagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) The National Park Service would have done well to have reached the same conclusion before it dealt with Alfred Hitchcock, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the world of movie-making! Plenty of "expedient exaggerations" surrounded the filming of scenes for Hitchcock's acclaimed thriller North by Northwest at Mount Rushmore in 1958. While the controversy the Mount Rushmore scenes caused appears humorous today, it was, at the time, a serious matter for the officials of the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior and for South Dakota's United States senator Karl E. Mundt.

I recently read Ido Dissentshik's essay, "Night in a Sealed Room" {op-ed, Jan. 26}. The night he and his family spent in their sealed room during the Scud attack on Tel Aviv must have been terrifying. As a family man like him, I can't imagine my 1-year-old and wife having to endure the dangers of missiles and poison gas.

That whining sound you hear from the west is the cacophony of lobbying groups and lobbyists crying about the impact Initiated Measure 22 is having on their cozy relationships with legislators. Special interest groups are dropping their legislative events and dinners with some frequency because of the reporting requirements and $100 limit on gifts/services in IM 22.

I was born in Tilden, Nebraska, named for Samuel Tilden, the Democrat who lost—no, had stolen—the 1876 Presidential election against Republican Rutherford B. Tilden won the popular vote by three percent but four states were in dispute regarding their electoral votes. In the Compromise of 1877, the election went to the United States House of Representatives and all 20 disputed electoral votes went to Republican Hayes in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South.

While the Sioux Falls Police Department chases chimeras that allegedly assault their officers in city parks, in many other police departments across the nation, law enforcement has seemingly declared war on the citizens they are supposed to protect. Since the federal government doesn’t keep statistics on how many unarmed people are killed each year by law enforcement, it’s difficult to come up with a definitive number.

While the Keystone XL pipeline has received most of the public and press attention in South Dakota, there’s another crude oil line that may be crossing the state—the Dakota Access pipeline. “It will range anywhere up and down the line from what I’ve been reading from 12 inches to 30 inches,” Sattgast said.

The race for South Dakota Democratic Party Chair may be turning on where the two candidates stand on abortion. Party officials meet Saturday in Oacoma to select a new chair to replace Deb Knecht of Houghton, who is stepping down. Announced candidates for the chairmanship are Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth of Sioux Falls and retired teacher and former Sioux Falls Education Association president Ann Tornberg of Beresford.

(Reuters) - Republican Mike Rounds has won the U.S. Senate seat in a three-way race in South Dakota, Reuters/Ipsos projected on Tuesday, a crucial gain for Republicans as they clinched control of the chamber. Rounds, 60, a former governor of the state, defeated former U.S. Senator Larry Pressler, who ran as an independent, and Democrat Rick Weiland, a one-time aide to former Democratic Senator Tom Daschle.

SIOUX FALLS — Former South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, responded to Democratic opponent Rick's Weiland's opposition to the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline Saturday. The line would deliver tar sands oil from Canada to the United States Gulf Coast. Rounds said he supports the pipeline.

A federal district judge today (Monday) dismissed Democratic Minnehaha County Commissioner Jeff Barth’s petition to preserve evidence in the EB-5 scandal. However, Judge Karen E. Schreier did give Barth’s attorney, Richard Engels, of Hartford, the opportunity to add a new petitioner to the matter, Richard Hulshof, a former employee of the now defunct Northern Beef Packers plant in Aberdeen.

SIOUX FALLS — With absentee voting starting tomorrow (Friday), the U.S. Senate race heated up today (Thursday) with the state’s two political parties flinging charges and countercharges over issues old and new. Noon Thursday, the South Dakota Democratic Party held a follow-up news conference with their lawyer, Patrick Duffy, of Rapid City, noting a new charge against EB-5 administrator Joop Bollen — securities law violations. “Where was the state securities commissioner in all these LLCs and LLPs that were generating securities (the Bollen set up through the EB-5 program)?” Duffy asked rhetorically. “Most of this falls in our wheel house. It should have been investigated a long time ago.” Duffy said the limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships that Bollen set up for projects were funded by EB-5 funds and were soliciting for investors. He says they should have been registered with state or federal regulators and prospectuses issued to potential investors.

A Constitution Party candidate who unsuccessfully tried to get on the November South Dakota ballot for the U.S. House of Representatives is suing Secretary of State Jason Gant to be placed on the ballot. Wednesday, Charles “Chuck” Haan of Watertown filed a writ of mandamus pro se with the U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls.