Palin isn’t retarded, just stupid
l3wis 
February 2010
Indoor pool advocates still going batshit crazy over the fact that they lost to democracy
Word on the street is that the Gargoyle Leader and a handful of parents of swimmers are pushing for another public indoor pool. It seems the elites in this town just can’t let something die. As I pointed out before the Drake Springs vote, there is over 30 indoor pools in Sioux Falls and over 8 private pools that you can pay an admission to and swim at. I would have been behind an indoor pool plan if we lived in a town of a couple thousand people and didn’t have an indoor pool already, but that is not the case. The indoor pool vote failed for numerous reasons, and money had little to do with it. Location and size (non-competitive) had a lot to do with it. Even the Snowfox swim team opposed it in the end. The indoor pool failed because the city not only failed to listen to the people that were against it, but they failed to listen to the people that were for it. Rumor is that they are trying to get it back on the ballot in April or November. A word of advice; listen to the public. An indoor pool would be great, but factor in some ideas that make sense
• Make it a partnership with the SF School District so it gets optimal usage
• Build it with competitive lanes
• Build it either at Lincoln or Roosevelt HS
People are always quick to blame old poor people for why these plans fail at the voting booth. Did they ever think they fail because they are poor plans? The indoor pool at Drake Springs was a poor plan, admit it already and move on with a SMART plan supported by all citizens.
Could the 1% sales tax increase make it out of committee?
What’s the best way to pay for playgrounds for the rich? Tax the shit out of the peasants of course.
Word on the street in Pierre is that it has a very good chance of making it out of committee. This does not surprise me. I guess the committee members have been lobbied pretty hard on the issue. Even if it makes it out of committee I don’t think it will pass the houses, and if it does for some miraculous reason, voters will certainly turn it down in November;
The sales tax bill that could produce a funding source for a new Sioux Falls events center is scheduled for its first hearing today.
House Bill 1198 is scheduled to be heard at 10 a.m. by the House committee on Local Government.
The bill would enable cities to impose a temporary one-cent sales tax for a specific capital project, pending local voter approval.
And it seems Mr. Tax and spend himself will be in Pierre to promote higher taxes, go figure.
A hearing in the House Local Government committee will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. and Mayor Dave Munson plans to testify about the bill. But it’s only the first step in the five-step process of passing the third penny sales tax bill through the legislature.
Get out your googles for info on the SF Municipal election, and guess what you will find; South DaCola
I got a chuckle out of this the other day, I have been noticing when you google candidates in the upcoming city election, guess who shows up on the first page?
Check it out;
vernon brown mayor sioux falls
pat costello mayor sioux falls
kermit staggers mayor sioux falls
mike huether mayor sioux falls
bill peterson mayor of sioux falls
michelle erpenbach sioux falls
And the list goes on . . .
“Keep doing what your doing, it is working” SF Finance director Gene Rownehorst
That was Eugene’s answer to councilors when they asked him what they should do in response to the survey.
During Inside Town Hall councilor Jamison talks about the (unscientific) city survey. Of course they were all hyped up because they got a 93% on people saying Sioux Falls is a great place to live. What does this have to do with government? Not much. What makes a community great are it’s people, not it’s politicians. During the interview when Jamison is talking about the negative results he said that street maintenance was at 32% (without saying what that 32% meant) The actual suvey said “32% think our streets are good to excellent”. That means 68% think either that our roads are either poor or fair. That is why it is important to spend the 2nd penny on what it is for, roads, not monkey crappers and wood thingies in parks. They also forgot to mention that only 40% of citizens think that city government listens to them. Rowenhorst said that the survey cost $21,500 and only 922 people responded. That is well under 1% of the total residents. The survey cost $23.31 per response. You could have paid me that per respondent and I would have knocked on doors and did a realistic survey. Also left out is that the survey was only mailed to registered voters. This is not a surprise, but it does tell us that the city isn’t interested in your opinion if you don’t vote. I’m okay with that. I think people who don’t vote and are not registered need to get a clue and start participating in this thing we call a democracy. I have often felt there should be an income tax surcharge of $500 for every person who is not registered to vote.
In the second half of the show, Mark Cotter and Bob Litz came on to defend the poorly formulated arterial road funding. Litz went on a little rant about the media not giving them time to explain themselves that is why he came on Inside Town Hall. Give me a break. The proof is in the pudding, the numbers don’t lie. Taxpayers have put in over 13x more then the developers have. What is there to explain? Cotter also changed the formulation to 70/30 now (taxpayers put in 70%) Originally it was going to be a 50/50 partnership (LMAO). Litz blames the economy for developers not putting in their share. REALLY? If the economy is so bad then why are you taxing citizens more? It’s okay for developers to skirt their responsibility but taxpayer’s are forced to pony up?! We warned you on the night of the vote that the economy was tanking, and you ignored us or watched the Olympics. Read the above paragraph; YOU NEED TO START LISTENING TO CONSTITUENTS AND STOP MAKING F’ING EXCUSES! Bob said that we need to just hold tight and the developers will start catching up with the taxpayer’s contribution. I won’t hold my breath.