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Trish Ladner

State House · District 30

Trish Ladner

67%House

Pro-resident voting record on data center bills

Sided with residents on 67% of votes across 11 data center bills.

Note

Received PAC contributions from SD Action Committee for Rural Electrification (ACRE PAC). Several energy companies lobbied in Pierre for tax breaks for data centers this past legislative session.

Voting record

On 2026-session data center bills · House record

HB 1038Voted For

allow the Public Utilities Commission to assess actual costs to data centers that are customers of public utilities.

HB 1246Voted Against

prohibit nondisclosure of certain agreements related to data centers.

SB 135Voted For

protect residents from increased utility costs and utility shortages caused by data centers and clarify authority to regulate data centers.

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.

$11,465in reported receipts

Trish For South Dakota

Flagged contributions to their own committee

  • CThe PAC funnel$490
Flagged total$490

Money spent by others

This is not Trish Ladner’s money and was not received by their campaign. A candidate does not control independent expenditure made on their behalf, and may not want it.

  • ELarge national or out-of-state money$2,500

Flagged donors, largest first

  • PSA PAC, Inc. $2,500 [E]
  • Dusty PAC $490 [C]

These named donors add up to $2,990, against the $490 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 (22)
PSA PAC Inc. P.O. Box 26141 Alexandria, VA 22313 FECE$2,500
SD RPAC$2,000
South Dakota EPIC$1,000
Elaine Zobell$500
SD State Medifal Association PAC$500
South Dakota Retailers Association PAC$500
COTEL$400
SMART TD PAC$350
Contractors PAC of South Dakota$350
South Dakota Credit Union PAC$350
SD Chiropractic Pac$350
SD ACRE$300
Dusty PACC$250
Walker Witt$250
SD Association of H$250
SD SOYPAC$250
SD Dental Association PAC$250
Good Government Fund P.O. Box 5650 Bismark, ND 58506 FEC$250
Friends of Will Mortenson$250
Dusty PACC$240
South Dakota Pork Producers PAC$200
(UNITEMIZED - gifts of $100 or less; no donor names required by SDCL 12-27-24(11))$175

Collected via SOS portal pull, Aug 2026. Contributor names appear exactly as the committee filed them. Donor addresses are not published.

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