And the ironic part about it all, the permit was OUT of the city limits. The city council should not have even been voting on the project.

I have never seen two bodies of local government at the utmost level of immaturity.

Maybe City Attorney Loop-hole Fiddle-Faddle needs to give them a lesson in ‘civility’.

Watch the whole thing here. The arguments at the end are rich. The pure ignorance of the permitting process and attaining investors went straight over their heads. I even got to go up and poke the eyes of the Koch Brother-Teabagger dirty energy lovers and all of their BS rhetoric.

The only two members of the boards that showed any inkling of intelligence on the issue were a Staunch Conservative and a Staunch Liberal, Staggers and Barth.

If you wanted to pour yourself a big cup of ignoramus, they were serving it at Carnegie Hall tonight.

5 Thoughts on “SF City Council (Mostly Rolfing) bullies Minnehaha County Commission in denying solar energy permit

  1. I was also corrected, the city of SF has jurisdiction within a 3 mile radius of the city limits . . . but it still doesn’t make it right, because the city of Brandon only has a mile.

  2. Also, when I went up to speak, I complimented the county chair, Heiberger for allowing more then 5 minutes for testimony then she barked at me about a time limit, nice.

    I also noticed who some of the opponents were, let’s just say, the 30 opponents had a couple of ‘big wheels’ old money rolling with them.

    We can talk all we want about how things get approved in SF, but I think we know how it goes.

  3. Dan Daily on February 25, 2015 at 9:37 am said:

    I’m one of the few who believes city and county government should become one. There would be less overhead and it’s the easiest way to dissolve Home Rule Charter. There’s be better welfare programs. The wealthy city has no welfare responsibility. The county operates the jail without the city. Much of the taxed population including a third of city employees live outside city limits. They’d be heard in local government. Law enforcement would be better. City cop comedy would be merged with the more professional sheriff’s office. Fire would be better coordinated with more regulation for the county.

    Generally, better resources less overhead and restored city democracy.

  4. Dan – FYI – the city lies in TWO counties. You’re saying there Lincoln and Minnehaha should join into a single unit?? You think you saw ignorance at the Minnehaha county joint meeting – you’ ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. Lincoln county just denied a wind energy company from even TESTING to see if there’s enough wind in the county for turbines.

  5. My biggest chuckle was the amendment (or whatever it was) requiring them to sell their energy to Xcel. WTF?

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