Who is blowing smoke?

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I was watching the latest addition of ‘Ask the Mayor’. He was reflecting on the latest election. Besides his normal rant about ‘bad neighbors’ ruining it for ‘good neighbors’ and his other normal rant that ‘the law protects bad neighbors’ (actually Mike, the laws protect property rights). He made an interesting comment, he said that before the election there was a lot of talk about the lack of integrity and transparency in city government, he said that it turned out to be “a bunch of smoke”.

How does that saying go? You can fool some of the people, all of the time?

I am curious what he considers ‘smoke’

  1. Investing in developments which is a question of ethics because of the conflicts of interest
  2. Using misleading ballot language prepared by the city attorney
  3. Using tax dollars to mislead the public with the use of CityLink
  4. Preparing a 17” ballot marketing piece which was not required by law

I could add more to this list, but I will have to admit, it is one thing to ‘trick’ the public into voting for certain measures and candidates using misleading language, it is entirely another thing to brag about the victory that was attained through deceptive marketing (smoking) the public.

This guy has no boundaries.

The many faces of Noem

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So every one is upset because Noemless was hamming it up on the GWoC. Who cares, I was actually happy she was wasting time doing tourist crap instead of legislating.

But she seems to like to have her mouth open a lot, bizarre.

First, the ham up everyone is concerned about;

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Then her as ice queen, or rodeo queen, or something;

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Then her scary 4-H picture I saved from her ‘blog’ when she was running for state legislature;

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Oh, and my toon about her when she was running for Congress;

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Yippee-Skippy, Noem likes to take stupid pictures, and this is news. Yawn

Comments to land annexation hearing further proof that some SF voters are extremely misinformed, and kind of stupid

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The story about the land annexation SD Supreme Court hearing today in Pierre gathered some interesting FB comments. They mostly speak for themselves, but it seems most don’t even know that this hearing has been pending months before the city election, of course, these people think that when you appeal to the SC they will hear your arguments in a couple of weeks? LOL, sometimes it takes a year. Also, they don’t realize that this is the 3rd time the zoning has been attempted to be changed on the neighbors. This is a property rights issue that could happen in ANY neighborhood in this city. Ask Whittier how the city rolls. This could happen to you next. Are you willing to fight?

“unreal how these morons can waste time and money and the courts time, perhaps we the people can sue them for prohibiting our future”

Yes, because, NOT having a 4th Walmart in Sioux Falls, would ruin our future.

“They wanted the public to vote on it, so it was voted on. People determined that they wanted the Walmart by a large margin. Thanks for continuing to waste taxpayers money. I can’t wait for the SC Justices to deny their appeal, so the store can get underway.”

First off it will take a couple of months before they render an opinion, and secondly, the only one wasting  tax dollars is the city by misleading voters on the issue in advocational sessions and handing over millions in infrastructure upgrades for Walmart. A couple of court cases and an election is a miniscule cost to what we will be ponying up for Walmart.

“one thing about those supposed ‘rich snobs’ that are invading our city, they still don’t think they have to abide by anyone’s rules and laws but their own. sickening and disgusting, and they don’t belong here!”

Are you talking about Walmart? Because I agree 100%

“Think of how many hungry children in our community could have been fed with the amount of money these people have wasted. Get over it you lost, time to move on with life.”

Yes, blame them for the hungry children in our community. Well at least if you get a job at Walmart you will be eligible for food stamps to feed your children.

“For cripes sake, it’s not like a fracking operation is going to be drilling at that location. This matter of annexation and Lincoln County was already decided on.”

Uh, no it hasn’t, that is why it went to the SC.

“Just give the retarded people another useless Walmart. A little city like Sioux Falls really needs a 4th one. Lmao!”

I know people with Down Syndrome that have about 200% more common sense then some of these commenters, you are being to nice.

“Wow Listo, your ignorance is showing by the awful choice of words you displayed in your comment. Do you really think Wal-Mart didn’t conduct market research before they decided to build a new one? The market shows they’re needed, therefore, they will keep building. It’s called supply and demand, but someone as small as you probably can’t comprehend that basic economic principle.”

You are right, Walmart hasn’t defeated every single locally owned retailer yet, so they needed to build this store to get it accomplished. Ask Yankton how their Walmart worked out for them.

“Listo Harbor It’s not only about serving the current size of Sioux Falls, but the growth. The city is growing pretty rapidly, and need the services in place in order to meet the demand from consumers.”

Yeah, we NEED a 4th Walmart like we NEED a hole in our heads. I haven’t shopped at Walmart in years, and if they all left town tomorrow, the community would be fine, and growth would continue. To tell you the truth, we might be BETTER OFF without them sucking our tax dollars and paying low wages.

“I moved to the east side of town and have been going to the Walmart over here. I noticed most of the things buy on a regular basis has gone up one dollar. Ive noticed some thing advertised on sale that are actually a dollar higher.”

Walmart using trickery in their advertising?! Get the F’ck outta here! If you had half a brain, you would realize that Walmart’s prices are not much different then other retailers.

“Such a waste of the Justice’s time.”

Yes, because who cares about zoning and annexation laws? We should just get rid of those laws all together so I can build a shooting range  and lion’s den in my backyard.

“This is absolutely absurd that people can act like this. If you don’t like what is going in your neighborhood move! Good riddance!”

They were there first, this is the THIRD time the zoning has been changed since 75% have built their homes. IMO, if Walmart doesn’t like the neighbors wishes, they can build elsewhere.

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