Meet the Candidate: Tim Goodwin
Goodwin seeks return to elected office
Tim Goodwin is seeking election to the South Dakota state House in District 30. He is running in the most crowded legislative race this primary season, he is one of six candidates seeking two seats. Goodwin previously represented the district in the House, he was term-limited out and unsuccessfully ran for state Senate in 2022.
District 30 includes southwest South Dakota, touching the borders of Wyoming and Nebraska. Cities included in the district include Custer, Hot Springs, and Hermosa.
The Dakota Scout sent a series of questions to all legislative candidates running in contested races for the state House and Senate in the June 4 primary election. Candidates were asked to limit their responses to each question to 150 words or less.
Age:Â 68
City of residence: near Hill City
Profession:Â Retired
Public service/community service experience: 24 years active duty military
Family information: Wife Marcia, blended family with two boys and two girls, for a total of eight adult children and 19.5 grandchildren
1) What's the government's role in facilitating economic development in South Dakota?
Less government is best plus because the private sector is way more efficient. Government should always be pushed down to lowest level possible. We need to have a tax shift and rework residential property tax formula because it is an absolute crisis  in our state!!
2) If you could have dinner with any person, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
My dad. He’s a Korean War Veteran who passed on July 4th, 1977. I miss him.
3) Does the "Landowner Bill of Rights" -- adopted by the Legislature amid opposition to carbon pipeline companies using eminent domain -- strike the right balance between the interests of property owners, counties and the ag industry - and should voters get a say when they head to the polls in November?
The Legislature is where it should be handled. If it’s done by the ballot, then special interest groups throw money at it for passage.
I must respectfully disagree with his opinion on SB201. The public has been very vocal and public in our objection to SCS's pipeline in particular because of what it will be carrying. SCS brought this upon itself after the brazen and UNINVITED ENTRY into someone's home. I will never tolerate such an action by anyone and I highly doubt that Mr. Goodwin WOULD tolerate such an intrusion into his home.
Fortunately for that SCS idiot, the wife who was home alone, did not exercise her Castle Doctrine rights!
The title of SB 201 states "An Act to provide new statutory requirements for regulating linear transmission facilities. to allow counties to impose a surcharge on certain pipeline companies and to declare an emergency".
Section 7 is quite specific when it comes to preventing LOCAL ORDINANCES from interfering with any provision of Chapter 49-41B. So, fellow South Dakotans, SCS and its ilk has been given the authority to do so by 63 of 104 legislators in both chambers AND the governor. So these 64 folks in Pierre have told councilmen, councilwomen, town trustees and county commissioners to "GO POUND SAND!"
Regarding Candidate Goodwin's statement about "If it's done by the ballot, then special interest groups throw money at it", to which I remind, or point out, to everyone that SCS donated $10,000 to the Governor's Ball.
I also want to remind everyone that the CO2 dumpsite was to be in North Dakota, but their PUC denied a permit for that site SO WHERE WILL THE CO2 BE DUMPED??
I don't believe that any of the 603.000+ registered South Dakota voters will see one cent from any pipeline company to get us to defeat the anti-SB 201 bill.