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SD LGBT Community Represented at Democratic National Convention

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 10:10

The South Dakota LGBT community had two "out" representatives at the Democratic National Convention that was held in Denver from August 25-28.  Attending were Martin Yeung of Rapid City and Liz Himmel-Roberts of Hartford.

Yeung attended as the LGBT member of the South Dakota delegation.  Yeung, a Spearfish native, worked previously as an assistant in the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton Administration.  He then was on the staff of Congressman Joe Sestak from Pennsylvania.  Yeung returned to South Dakota in April 2007 to manage his parents' restaurants -- the Great Wall and Imperial in Rapid City.  Yeung is also deeply involved in local area Democratic politics and fundraising and is a member of Equality SD Political Action Committee.  (See Martin's blog post about the convention)

Liz Himmel-Roberts, attended as an alternate delegate, and served on the rules committee as an appointee of the Clinton campaign.  Himmel-Roberts was also a delegate to the 2004 National Convention in New York City.

Angie Buhl of Vermillion, who is a board member of EqSD, attended the national convention of Stonewall Democrats (the LGBT Democratic organization) that was held in Denver the weekend before the Democratic National Convention.