caucuses today, including the role caucus and the youth councils of the South Dakota Republican Party spent more than $17,000 buying copies of Governor Noem's book this summer. According to a copy of the party's pre-primary financial Disclosure Party chair John Wick says that the party but 1000 copies of the book which were given out to attendees of the South Dakota Republican Convention in June. Overall, the book purchase accounted for a little over 60% of the party's operational expenditures in the pre-primary period.