Past Sponsors

Capitol Counsel works closely with clients to set achievable goals, craft strategic arguments, and devise winning plans to address legislative challenges and opportunities. Capitol Counsel implements winning strategies that help clients meet their policy goals  by advocacy, strategic counsel, legislative monitoring and policy analysis.  Each one of our clients is served by a hand-picked bipartisan team of professionals who can best help them achieve their legislative objectives. This holistic team approach ensures clients receive the highest quality of service and expertise.

First National Bank - First National Bank has a history and commitment to customers that goes back to 1934. Since commencing operations in Pierre, South Dakota, we’ve been proud of our tradition as a family-owned business and the connections to the communities we serve. Over the years we’ve grown, adding more locations and banking products, but always continuing to offer our customers personalized service. We do more than just promise to meet our customers’ banking needs. We take great pride in treating each and every one of our customers with the attention and care they deserve. First National Bank will always be your community bank, committed to doing what’s right for our customers in this generation – and the next.

National Business Aviation Association - The National Business Aviation Association promotes the aviation interests of organizations utilizing general aviation aircraft for business purposes in the United States and worldwide.

Red Print Strategy – Media and Creative Agency

Xcel Energy Inc. Xcel Energy is proud to be the largest electric utility in South Dakota, serving nearly 100,000 customers in the Sioux Falls area.  The nation’s leading utility provider of wind energy for more than 12 years running, Xcel recently announced plans to add a 600-megawatt wind project in Codington, Deuel and Grant counties to its upper Midwest system.  This will be the largest-ever wind farm in South Dakota, and represents a $1 billion investment in the state.  Headquartered in Minneapolis, Xcel Energy operates in eight Midwestern and Western states. 

The Beer Institute advocates on behalf of the $223 billion beer industry including more than 2,500 breweries and 1.8 million jobs in the United States in front of the US Congress, state legislatures, and numerous other public forums across the United States.

Western Skies Strategies is a bipartisan government relations and public affairs firm, which focuses on representing agricultural, rural, and Native American issues in the nation’s capital.

The American Veterinary Medical Association is a not-for-profit association representing more than 82,500 veterinarians working in private and corporate practice, government, industry, academia, and uniformed services.