South Dakota legislators say they want more details from Governor Kristi Noem’s administration about a meeting last year that included the Governor, one of her daughters and a state employee overseeing an agency that had moved to deny the daughter’s application to become a certified real estate appraiser. That employee was later forced to retire.
South Dakota State Employees Organization Executive Director Eric Olilla says politics trickles down to state workers.
Olilla says long term state employees just want to do their jobs.
Olilla says politics can force tough choices on state employees.
Olilla says he is still getting calls from state employees worried about work conditions and keeping their jobs.
(WNAX Radio contributed to this story.)
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