Dan Ahlers
Role at the time: South Dakota Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Ahlers said communities should decide whether readers are installed in their neighborhoods.
“I think people in their communities should have a say in whether or not they want these in their neighborhoods,”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Ahlers supports community decisions on readersOpening Ahlers quotation, attributed to September 17 forum
Original forum reporting reproduced by Northern Plains News.
Why we used this label
Relative to continued networked reader use, Ahlers makes deployment subject to community choice. This is a general local-control position, rather than a statewide prohibition.