I love having Staggers back, it’s fun to watch all the directors and other councilors squirm when he asks questions they either don’t have an answer to, or don’t want to answer. I also think it is funny that Erpenbach and Huether scolded Kermit about procedures. Hello! Kermit served already 8 years on the council and in the state legislature, oh, and BTW he teaches political science for a living. They look so foolish sometimes.
Just sometimes? I would say all the time these days.
I need to start going to these. I think I could write a mockumentary about Sioux Falls politics a la “The Office”.
Have to agree with Alice.
Muq – I don’t cover it much, because it is mostly hearsay, but you could create a show just about all the back-biting that is going on between directors and elected officials. It’s rich stuff, and ridiculous. I often chuckle when people mention tension between Kermit and staff, but at least he puts it out in the open. Some of this stuff is pure ‘bored housewife bullshit’. Certain people should not be sitting on the council.
‘To Staggers, who is entering his ninth year on the council, the two-question limit is a new one.
“When it comes to asking questions of department heads, sometimes it’s hard to get the information, so you have to ask again or ask in a different way,†he said.’
Something the mayor doesn’t want him doing.
‘Erpenbach said the council has rules that don’t adhere strictly to Robert’s, and the two-question limit is one of them.
“It’s not something that this council created,†she said. “It’s not something that I created. It’s something that was created by another council.‒
Show us the documentation. I don’t believe it for one second. Making up rules as you go along is not acceptable.
‘Erpenbach said that as a new councilor, she was chastised after asking a staffer about a dozen questions. That’s when she said she learned about the rule.’
First off, I complimented Erpenbach in an email when she first got on the council. I told her I found it refreshing she was asking so many questions. And I told her to never ‘question a question.’ She thanked me for my input.
Secondly, staffers don’t make up the rules, they have three bosses, the citizens, the mayor and the council, we make up the rules.
He asks two questions….other councilors get to ask, then its his turn again. And he can return to the line of questioning.
The mayor’s condescension is the latest in a long line of irritating behaviors by a little guy with an out-of-control ego.
On the other hand, an extended monologue by one councilor is the flip side of the problem. Two questions, others get a turn, then back for more. Sounds parliamentary to me. Go to it councilor. Move along. Not much to see here.
I thought it was funny when Michelle tried to cut him off, then asked if other councilors had questions, and none of them did.
I’m sorry MMM and city department heads (and Smith, whatever the hell you’re supposed to be doing), you work for us – if a question is asked, you answer it or bust your butt to find that answer!
Getting sick of the way Der Huether is trying to run this city – I so hope people will wake the f*** up in 2014!!!
Will people wake up by 2014? Well, there is one demographics that has woken up. That would be the 1400 strong city employees. If it were up to them…MMM would be LONG GONE. When MMM has to tell a director to keep his troops in line before he’ll meet with them again…well, not everything is as peachy as mmm likes to make the general public believe.
Why the general public does not know what the typical city employee does is the fault of our 4th estate. Yeah…YOU argus.
Many have commented that the F-bomb is a regular occurence out of the Mayor’s mouth within City Hall. Words cannot describe how bad that is – so I will leave it at that.
I really wish the media would grow a pair and become the Woodward and Bernstein of this administration. Everyone knows there is damaging emails, etc out there. Who is going to give their job the dignity it deserves and report to the public what they should know for footing these people’s salaries?
I love having Staggers back, it’s fun to watch all the directors and other councilors squirm when he asks questions they either don’t have an answer to, or don’t want to answer. I also think it is funny that Erpenbach and Huether scolded Kermit about procedures. Hello! Kermit served already 8 years on the council and in the state legislature, oh, and BTW he teaches political science for a living. They look so foolish sometimes.
Just sometimes? I would say all the time these days.
I need to start going to these. I think I could write a mockumentary about Sioux Falls politics a la “The Office”.
Have to agree with Alice.
Muq – I don’t cover it much, because it is mostly hearsay, but you could create a show just about all the back-biting that is going on between directors and elected officials. It’s rich stuff, and ridiculous. I often chuckle when people mention tension between Kermit and staff, but at least he puts it out in the open. Some of this stuff is pure ‘bored housewife bullshit’. Certain people should not be sitting on the council.
Ellis had a great story today;
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120616/NEWS/306160028/Ask-two-questions-then-you-re-out?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home
‘To Staggers, who is entering his ninth year on the council, the two-question limit is a new one.
“When it comes to asking questions of department heads, sometimes it’s hard to get the information, so you have to ask again or ask in a different way,†he said.’
Something the mayor doesn’t want him doing.
‘Erpenbach said the council has rules that don’t adhere strictly to Robert’s, and the two-question limit is one of them.
“It’s not something that this council created,†she said. “It’s not something that I created. It’s something that was created by another council.‒
Show us the documentation. I don’t believe it for one second. Making up rules as you go along is not acceptable.
‘Erpenbach said that as a new councilor, she was chastised after asking a staffer about a dozen questions. That’s when she said she learned about the rule.’
First off, I complimented Erpenbach in an email when she first got on the council. I told her I found it refreshing she was asking so many questions. And I told her to never ‘question a question.’ She thanked me for my input.
Secondly, staffers don’t make up the rules, they have three bosses, the citizens, the mayor and the council, we make up the rules.
He asks two questions….other councilors get to ask, then its his turn again. And he can return to the line of questioning.
The mayor’s condescension is the latest in a long line of irritating behaviors by a little guy with an out-of-control ego.
On the other hand, an extended monologue by one councilor is the flip side of the problem. Two questions, others get a turn, then back for more. Sounds parliamentary to me. Go to it councilor. Move along. Not much to see here.
I thought it was funny when Michelle tried to cut him off, then asked if other councilors had questions, and none of them did.
I’m sorry MMM and city department heads (and Smith, whatever the hell you’re supposed to be doing), you work for us – if a question is asked, you answer it or bust your butt to find that answer!
Getting sick of the way Der Huether is trying to run this city – I so hope people will wake the f*** up in 2014!!!
Will people wake up by 2014? Well, there is one demographics that has woken up. That would be the 1400 strong city employees. If it were up to them…MMM would be LONG GONE. When MMM has to tell a director to keep his troops in line before he’ll meet with them again…well, not everything is as peachy as mmm likes to make the general public believe.
Why the general public does not know what the typical city employee does is the fault of our 4th estate. Yeah…YOU argus.
Many have commented that the F-bomb is a regular occurence out of the Mayor’s mouth within City Hall. Words cannot describe how bad that is – so I will leave it at that.
I really wish the media would grow a pair and become the Woodward and Bernstein of this administration. Everyone knows there is damaging emails, etc out there. Who is going to give their job the dignity it deserves and report to the public what they should know for footing these people’s salaries?