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What’s the gossip on deck for the 2010 Governor’s race?

My spies reported to me last night that Lt. Governor Dennis Daugaard has added a staff person to his campaign effort. As I’m told (via the rumor mill), Joni Johnson will supposedly be working full time.

If this is the Joni I’m thinking of, she’s a Rounds’ cousin who had helped with the currrent Governor’s campaigns in 2002 and 2006.

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Dave Knudson has allegedly been talking to a media company or two on the contest, so consider him still in the hunt, albeit in a much quieter manner than the Lt. Governor.

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Still no word on who is backing Mayor Scott Munsterman’s exploratory efforts for Governor. Not even a peep.

We do know that he’s using the media company “Fresh Produce, Inc.” To my knowledge, this would mark their first foray into a statewide political campaign.

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The “Schoenbeck in ‘10″ facebook group has grown steadily to 223 members. If you want to, click here to join it yourself, and help me hit my target of 300 members by the end of the year.

Speaking of Lee, there still continues to be a strong grassroots interest from many GOP activists (including myself) in seeing him enter the contest.

The biggest piece of scuttlebutt that’s starting to bounce around Sioux Falls is that Miles Beacom (yes, that Miles Beacom) is being rumored to have a lead role in fundraising on Lee’s behalf if Schoenbeck jumps into the fray.

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What about the other potential people interested in the contest?

Matt Michels has been quiet about his interest for many months, and you don’t hear much chatter about Chris Nelson or Gary Hanson who have also expressed interest.  Whoever joins the race should be prepared to raise and spend in the neighborhood of $1 million dollars (as a conservative estimate), so such an undertaking is not for the faint-hearted.

That might be why there are so few who are taken seriously for the contest - not everyone has that laying around.

And if they don’t, they’d better get started raising it soon.

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