President Bill Clinton campaigning in Brandon, SD in 1996.
Story Created:
May 9, 2008 at 10:19 PM CDT
Story Updated:
May 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM CDT
One day after NY Senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton campaigned in Sioux Falls, former President Bill Clinton is campaigning for her at Rapid City's Stevens High School at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon.
South Dakotans eagerly await the presidential visit, but this won't be his first visit to the Rushmore State.
In September 1996, President Clinton campaigned in Brandon, SD for a second term in office. Hundreds held signs and cheered for the then young Democrat.
Clinton successfully secured a second term and returned to South Dakota in the summer of 1999. His tour of the poorest counties in the country brought him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The President examined how the poorest of the poor lived and what could be done about it.
Seven years later, now former President Clinton joined four other former presidents at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell to dedicate the George McGovern library.
Clinton will be back in South Dakota Saturday to campaign for his wife Hillary. The President will sell South Dakotans on how Hillary will fix the economy, create jobs, fix energy prices, and end the War in Iraq.
As candidates continue to battle for South Dakota, staffers say this presidential visit might not be the last.
KSFY will have complete coverage of the President's visit on Saturday's KSFY Live At 10:00.
KSFY's Drew Sandholm can be reached by phone at (605) 373-7372 or e-mail.
Saturday, May 10 at 12:51 AM cdnass@sio.midco.net wrote ...
And what did Clinton do about Pine Ridge. Nothing. Same old Clinton.