With less than a week until the election, the political ads are really heating up.

So we’re taking a closer look at two of the more frequent ads in the governor’s race you’re seeing on TV.

Wednesday night we begin with an attack on Democrat Billie Sutton from Republican Kristi Noem’s campaign. And Thursday night we’ll look at an attack on Noem, made by Sutton’s camp.

According to this political ad, Billie Sutton’s neighbors don’t think very highly of him.

While the ad doesn’t give the so-called “neighbors” names, we’ve tracked down who they are.

“Senator Sutton will campaign as a conservative and then turn around and govern as a liberal,” Juracek said in TV ad.

That’s Wade Juracek. Juracek owns Big Ass Liquor & Casino in Gregory.

Juracek also lives in Gregory and Sutton lives in Burke, more than eight miles apart from one another.

Juracek told KELOLAND News he and Sutton went to the same high school but admitted he’s much older than Sutton. Juracek also said he didn’t know Billie’s address.

“His folks ranched on the river bottom before it flooded,” Linda Paulson said in TV ad.

“We were two miles apart, so I know him,” Ron Paulson said in TV ad.

That’s Linda and Ron Paulson of Fairfax. Ron told KELOLAND News his family and the Suttons were truly neighbors while he was growing up and he knows everything about the Sutton family.

However, today the Paulsons live more than 38 miles away from the Suttons.

They were also delegates at the 2018 South Dakota GOP convention and had their picture taken with Kristi Noem.

Sarah Svoboda was also a 2018 delegate at the South Dakota Republican Convention.

“He’s a Democrat and he tries to pretend he’s not,” Svoboda said in TV ad.

And while it may say she’s Sutton’s neighbor on the ad, she lives 14 miles away.

A couple of the people in the ad told KELOLAND News they don’t have to live near Sutton to be his “neighbor” because they are in smaller communities where everyone knows everyone else.

Thursday night we fact check an ad about Kristi Noem where Sutton accuses her of several things, including skipping votes, using loopholes to take out of state money.

