About
Casey Crabtree ( Republican Party ) is a member of the South Dakota State Senate , representing District 8 . He assumed office on June 19, 2020. His current term ends on January 12, 2027.
Background sourced from Ballotpedia.
Note
Co-Sponsored tax breaks for data centers Received PAC contributions from Ottertail Corporation PAC who lobbied in Pierre for 50 year tax breaks for data centers and against all resident protections.
Voting record
On 2026-session data center bills · Senate record
allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.
protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.
modify provisions relating to the reinvestment payment program, and relating to the purchasing of goods and services used by projects approved for the reinvestment payment program.
provide a sales and use tax exemption for goods and services related to data center operations.
modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services related to data center operations.
protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers, to clarify authority to regulate data centers, and to modify provisions pertaining to the purchasing of goods and services by a data center.
modify provisions relating to the reinvestment payment program, and relating to the purchasing of goods and services used by projects approved for the reinvestment payment program.
Campaign money
Money is a signal, never a position. A flag below means a donor matched a category. It is not a finding that anything improper happened.
Crabtree for SD
Flagged contributions to their own committee
- AData center and Big Tech industry$1,000
- BUtility, power and energy interests$3,900
- CThe PAC funnel$250
Flagged donors, largest first
- NextEra Energy Resources Development, LLC $1,500
- Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC $1,000
- SD Ethanol Producers Pac $1,000
- Steve DelBianco $1,000
- Steve J & Marla J Willard $250
- Dusty PAC $250
These named donors add up to $5,000, against the $5,150 flagged above. The itemisation on file is partial, so the list is not the whole of it. That gap is a limit of what has been collected, not a finding.
Every itemised contribution on file (15)›
| Glacial Lakes Energy, LLCB | $1,000 |
| Contribution Statement you received from the entity. NextEra Energy ResourcesB | $1,000 |
| SDTC Companies PACC | $1,000 |
| PAC SD Corn Growers Assn PacC | $1,000 |
| Steve DelBiancoA | $1,000 |
| SD Petroleum and Propane | $750 |
| Contribution Statement you received from the entity. Altria Client Services, LLC | $500 |
| Robert & Erin Fouberg | $500 |
| Marketers PAC South Dakota Insurance AllianceC | $300 |
| Jeffrey Heinemeyer & Jane | $300 |
| Rodger Horr | $250 |
| Kevin Shumaker | $250 |
| Steve J & Marla J WillardB | $250 |
| Development, LLC Cutler Law Firm, LLP | $250 |
| Tourism Coalition of South Dakota | $100 |
Collected via manual pull (verified). Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.
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