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Blake Curd Campaign Releases First Radio Ad

Posted: Thursday, March 11th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Blake Curd, Republican candidate for South Dakota’s lone congressional seat, announced that his campaign would begin airing a radio advertisement on South Dakota stations starting today.

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More Leaders In State Legislature Endorse Curd

Posted: Tuesday, February 16th   Filed in: Press Releases

PIERRE – Blake Curd, Republican candidate for South Dakota’s lone congressional seat, received the endorsement of several more leaders in the State Legislature today.

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Blake Curd Disappointed in House Vote to Increase Debt Limit

Posted: Thursday, February 4th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Blake Curd, Republican candidate for South Dakota’s lone congressional seat, voiced his disappointment today with the House vote to increase our nation’s debt limit by an additional $1.9 trillion dollars.

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Blake Curd Raises $181,381 in 4th Quarter

Posted: Monday, January 25th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Blake Curd, candidate for the South Dakota At-Large congressional seat in 2010, announced today that his campaign raised $181,381 in the period ending December 31, 2009.   This report, from the campaign’s beginning in early October to the end of the year, is the first financial report Curd will file with the Federal Elections Commission.

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Blake Curd Highlights Need for Fiscal Discipline and Transparency In Washington

Posted: Wednesday, January 13th   Filed in: Press Releases

PIERRE – U.S. House Candidate, doctor and U.S. Air Force veteran Blake Curd today held a press conference pledging he would not send unsolicited, campaign-style mail pieces to South Dakotans at taxpayer expense if elected to Congress.  Curd also took to task Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s recent unsolicited mailings and her office’s attempts to obtain Game, Fish & Parks mailing lists at a greatly reduced cost.

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Thad Wasson Ends Congressional Campaign Endorses Blake Curd

Posted: Thursday, January 7th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Today South Dakota Republican Congressional Candidate Thad Wasson ended his campaign and endorsed Blake Curd as the best candidate to take on Stephanie Herseth Sandlin in November.

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Herseth Sandlin Votes to Increase Debt Limit

Posted: Wednesday, December 16th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – In response to Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s vote today to increase our nation’s statutory authority to take on more debt, Republican candidate for Congress Blake Curd issued the following statement:

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Herseth Sandlin Votes to Keep TARP Bailout Slush Fund Going

Posted: Friday, December 11th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – House Democrats missed an important opportunity to show some fiscal responsibility today as they voted against a measure to close out the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) at the end of this year, according to Republican candidate for Congress Blake Curd.

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Curd Statement on House-Passed Spending Measure

Posted: Friday, December 11th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Today Blake Curd, Republican candidate for Congress, made the following statement regarding the omnibus spending bill passed by the House of Representatives yesterday.

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Blake Curd Hires Campaign Manager

Posted: Monday, December 7th   Filed in: Press Releases

SIOUX FALLS – Republican Candidate for the U.S. House Blake Curd announced today the hiring of Joshua Shields to be his campaign manager.  A native of Rapid City, Shields has worked on several statewide campaigns including both of Sen. John Thune’s (R-SD) U.S. Senate campaigns in 2002 and 2004.

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Blake Curd Announces Candidacy for South Dakota Congressional Seat

Posted: Thursday, October 1st   Filed in: Press Releases

(Sioux Falls) – Dr. Blake Curd, Sioux Falls physician and Republican member of the South Dakota State House of Representatives, today announced the filing of his Statement of Candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission for the 2010 election for South Dakota’s At-Large Seat in the United States Congress.

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