Common Ground Letter

Rapid City Journal
Letters, 10/7/2006

New dialogue

All 89 of the Democratic legislative candidates joined last week in the direct, hard-hitting and specific Common Ground initiative (http://sdcommonground.org), committing to better wages, fiscal responsibility and a better future for South Dakota.

It seems that Republicans are worried that voters are ready to hear our agenda - to the extent of appearing in the back of the room at the press conference to loudly criticize the initiative and distribute negative campaign literature attacking Common Ground.

The truth is, the Republican majority is not delivering. It's time for a new dialogue that includes new ideas.

We are committed to electing our highly-qualified Democratic candidates to the state Legislature this November. South Dakotans will finally breathe a collective sigh of relief when moderate Republicans, empowered by a new political reality, can feel safe to roll up their sleeves and join moderate Democratic legislators at the table to find solutions together, finally able to ignore the reactionary right-wing of their party - which seems content to sit in the back of the room and criticize.

CURTIS PRICE
Electronic Communications
Pennington County Democratic Party
Rapid City