The Senate race in District 32 will certainly be interesting this November. Establishment Republican Helene Duhamel (recruited by Lee Schoenbeck) was unopposed for the June 2024 primary election. Enter into the arena Republican Karen McNeal, who successfully entered the race for this Senate seat as an Independent, and will take on Duhamel in the general election on 5 Nov 2024. Karen has received support from conservative grassroots republicans working to elect better representation in Pierre.
Here’s today’s dose of the “Duhamel Diaries”…
Rumor mill is saying that the Senate Republican PAC under Lee Schoenbeck gave Helene Duhamel $30K toward her re-election bid. Unconfirmed at this time, will know more when campaign finance reporting is submitted. If this is true, they must be really panicked over Karen McNeal.
In 2022, Duhamel voted AGAINST a bill that would ensure restrooms and locker rooms would not be used by students of opposite biological sex. HB1005 An Act to provide for the designated use of public school multi-occupancy rooms and sleeping rooms.
The bill made it through the House and then was stopped in it’s tracks when the Senate Judiciary committee deferred it to the 41st legislative day, with Duhamel voting YES, to defer.
https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/22690
Travesty, she refused to protect our children. How criminal!
