dad passed and then south dakota's outstanding young leader and that that time our us senator was tom dashel. he was the majority leader in the house in the senate and was from south dakota and i was at a lot of his meetings. he ended up appointing me to a board that oversaw all the federal farm programs in the state. so i was involved in policy and and showing up with different people and people started to ask me to consider running for the state legislature, you know, it was interesting because asking my family they just thought well that's strange and you know, nobody's done that before but in our state this the legislature meets for 40 days a year you go in in january you balance the budget past bills and then go back home and back to your jobs and it wasn't that big of a commitment to outside of session and we figured we would try it and if it worked then everything would be okay. i did that got elected and ran for leadership right away and served as the assistant majority leader in the house, but that's really when a lot of the pressure started to come to run for congress, which i was