Dan Lederman | |
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Chair of the South Dakota Republican Party | |
In office February 11, 2017 –January 14, 2023 | |
Preceded by | Pam Roberts |
Succeeded by | John Wiik |
Member of the South Dakota Senate from the 16th district | |
In office January 11,2011 –March 30,2015 | |
Preceded by | Margaret V. Gillespie |
Succeeded by | Jim Bolin |
Member of the South DakotaHouseofRepresentatives from the 16th district | |
In office January 9,2009 –January 11,2011 | |
Preceded by | Joel Dykstra Margaret V. Gillespie |
Succeeded by | David Anderson Jim Bolin |
Personal details | |
Born | Waterloo,Iowa,U.S. | November 25,1972
Political party | Republican |
Education | University of Iowa (BA) |
Dan Lederman [1] (born November 25,1972 in Waterloo,Iowa) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the South Dakota Senate representing District 16 from January 11,2011 until he resigned on March 30,2015. [2] Lederman served consecutively in the South Dakota Legislature from January 2009 until January 11,2011 in the South Dakota House of Representatives District 16 seat.
In February 2017,Lederman was elected State Chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party in the first contested party chair election in decades. [3] In February 2019,Lederman was re-elected on an uncontested basis to another term of office as chair of the South Dakota Republican Party. [4] In January 2023,Lederman did not seek re-election and was succeeded by John Wiik.
Lederman received his combat medic training at United States Army Medical Department Center and studied fine arts and religion at the University of Iowa.
Since the late 1990s,Lederman has been a partner in the family owned Lederman Bail Bonds business,founded by his father. [5]
Lederman serves as a Senior Advisor to Des Moines,IA based LS2 Group,working in grassroots organizing,media relations,political event planning,and social media for the organization. [6] On October 12,2016,Lederman registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) office as an agent of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [7] for purposes of lobbying for changes to the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). Projecting a fee of $8,500 for his services,Lederman registered in his capacity as a senior advisor at LS2 Group. [8] LS2group received $76,500 in compensation for its work on the Saudi campaign against JASTA. [9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dan Lederman | 4,442.0 | 55.6 | |
Democratic | Ann Tornberg | 3,543.0 | 44.4 | |
Total votes | 7,985.0 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dan Lederman | 6,604.0 | 60.0 | |
Democratic | Michael O'Connor | 4,395.0 | 40.0 | |
Total votes | 10,999.0 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dan Lederman | 6,082.0 | 62.71 | |
Democratic | Kathy Hill | 3,616.0 | 37.29 | |
Total votes | 9,698.0 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Dan Lederman | 6,594.0 | 33.86 | |
Republican | Jim Bolin | 5,377.0 | 27.61 | |
Democratic | Janelle M. O'Connor | 4,296.0 | 22.06 | |
Democratic | Brian L. Wells | 3,210.0 | 16.48 | |
Total votes | 19,477.0 | 100 |
On October 11,2017,Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Lora Hubbel sent out a press release claiming Lederman's Iowa voter registration was still in force. [25] In reporting the story,the media noted that Hubbel had changed parties herself a few months earlier. [26] In an interview with KELO radio,South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs indicated that since Lederman used "Dan Lederman" when he originally registered in Iowa and "Daniel Isaac Lederman" when registering in South Dakota,the name was not removed from the Iowa voter roll at the time,because it " would not be an exact match and wouldn't have been caught in the de-duplicating process that Secretary of States use." [27] Lederman responded to the candidate's criticism in an op-ed released to the media the following day titled "OK to change parties in America. [28]
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The governor's communications director, Ian Fury, didn't respond to questions Saturday from KELOLAND News about what led to Lederman's substitution for her.
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