So tell me a little bit about your experience in state government. For people who don't know. I was chief of staff to a great governor, Governor Dennis Dugard and I played a lead role in eliminating $127 million budget deficit [in South Dakota] without increasing taxes. And that wasn't easy, but it was. Those hard decisions put South Dakota on a far more fiscally sustainable path. (00:48–00:57)
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