Rep. Breeds Pourier, D-Rapid City, speaks on the floor of the home in 2025. March 3 (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Search Light)
The representative of the South Dakota states Pourier replaced his political dependent on Democrats to Republican.
Pourier published a report on Monday, the day before legislators gather for a special session to vote on the state prison construction plan. The South Dakota Searchlight has confirmed the Pourier registration transition to the county election officer.
Switching also advises the Republican benefit when 97 Republicans and eight Democrats of the legislature after Pourier deficiency. This is the smallest number of Democrats in the legislator since 1953, when there were two.
Pourier is a member of the Oglala Lakota genus with a quick city address representing the 27 district. It stretches from the East from Rapid City to Pine Ridge Reservation and includes other rural areas. She is a A former member of the Democratic Palace leadership team, but abandoned the last legislative session with his colleagues with Democrats. This is how her Senate district friend, Red Dawn Foster, did not respond immediately to the search message of South Dakota on Monday.
Pourier was a minority beating in the palace’s democratic mask in 2023 and 2024.
A Facebook postPourier said the sovereignty of tribes is in line with the principles of the Republican Party of the Government, economic well -being, lower energy costs, self -determination and public safety. “On the contrary,” she added, “Geeric thoughtful democratic reforms were too often damaged by sovereignty.”
“My decision reflects the strategic calibration – one that enhances my ability to defend our communities and achieve significant results,” the pourier said. “I will not explain the rhetoric of poverty and violence. I continue to commit directly to these issues – not ever, not when it becomes politically convenient, but now.”
Palace leader Scott Odenbach, R-Spearfish said Pourier was invited to the Republican Caucasus meeting Tuesday morning during a special session.
“We will benefit us with its strong voice and unique perspectives, and its voters will benefit the greater impact of Republican principles,” Odenbach said in a text statement. “It should be useful for all participants.”
Pourier’s Facebook post did not say whether it would attend the Republican Caucasian meetings or refrain from fighters as it did during the last legislative session.
Home minority leader Erin Healy, D-Sioux Falls said she thinks Pourier will continue to “behave according to her values and principles,” and hopes she will continue to represent the best interests of her voters in the Southwest Dakota and Pine Ridge Reserve.
Healy added that Pourier was the only Democrat in the Chamber’s Court Committee. Hely plans to discuss the changing tasks of the committee members to ensure that the Democrats have a place in the committee in the next session.
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Dan Ahlers, Executive Director of the South Dakota Democratic Party, said he was “disappointed” in a Pourier report. He said the South Dakota Democrats were more successful in appealing to American Indian problems than Republicans at national and national level.
Ahlers added that the part of the lawmakers’ party “usually happens because of something other than their values”. Sometimes lawmakers change parties because it is useful for other elections or to enter a working group or committee, he said.
Forms late. Ryan Maher was the last Democratic legislator to move to the Republican Party. It changed in 2011, going to a democrat from 2007 to 2010, representing the Northwest South Dakota and Cheyenne River Reservation.
Other examples of the legislator’s addiction switches have been an sen. Jim Bradfordwhich 2009 Moved from Democrats to Republicans, and later to a democratic 2011, and former Sensu Jenna Netherton, who in 2013 Changed his dependent on independent to Republican.