A leader in the anti-carbon pipeline movement is taking the helm of the South Dakota Republican Party.
GOP county leadership elected Jim Eschenbaum as state party chair in a Central Committee meeting over the weekend. He replaces outgoing leader John Wiik.
Eschenbaum is a Hand County Commissioner who has been outspoken against Summit Carbon Solution’s proposed carbon pipeline. He was a leader in the Referred Law 21 movement, overturning a pipeline regulation law passed last session in the November election.
Republican party activist Janet Jensen was elected vice-chair.