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The big city news of the day is Jamison announcing a campaign manager;

Jamison Announces Campaign Manager

Sioux Falls, SD – Greg Jamison has announced today the hiring of his Campaign Manager.
Former SDGOP Regional Field Director and Secretary of State Election Coordinator, Garrett DeVries, has joined the Greg Jamison for Mayor Campaign as the campaign manager.
“Garrett DeVries is a welcome addition to this campaign,” said Jamison. “Garrett has a great history of being a work horse to win campaigns.  His energy, organization, and proven experience will serve this campaign very well.   I am excited to have him on the team.”

Garrett DeVries grew up on a family farm near Canistota and attended the University of South Dakota. He has been involved in campaigns from a very young age and has worked extensively with many campaigns across the state of South Dakota. In 2012, he served as the West River Regional Field Director for SDGOP specializing in grassroots campaigning and getting out the vote.  With the Secretary of State, DeVries worked to increase access to voting utilizing Vote Centers and by improving the absentee process for military personal.
For more information – visit its website at www.JamisonForMayor.com or call (605) 215-5184.

The city council has also not met for several weeks, so they have a lot on their plates tomorrow;

During the informational we are going to have a ‘Top Ten’ list from Huether’s mouthpiece, Kendra Siemonsma, I guess it is so ‘awesome’ they can’t post it ahead of time on SIRE.

We will also get updated as to why Public Parking needs to charge $25 for an appeal, we gotta cover that Golden ‘P’ marketing budget somehow I guess.

Jim David also will inform us about the council’s legislative priorities, like a statewide texting ban (even though Sam Clemens from the SFPD KINDA admitted on ‘100 Eyes’ that texting and driving and getting in an accident is already covered under ‘distracted’ driving) but Erpenbach won’t be happy until she restricts all naughty things in SF like speaking longer then 5 minutes on a topic at city council meetings. The council also wants to have the power to tax us for whatever and use that money to ‘benefit’ us. LOL!

At the Fiscal Committee meeting, financial director, Tracy Turbak will give us an update on Debt Management (that must be super-uber-secret because docs are not up on SIRE either, maybe they are heating up in the pre-SIRE warming bin before they can be released to the public.)

Item #1 on the city council meeting agenda, approval of contracts, has some interesting expenditures. Project #189064 has a charge for redesigning/engineering the existing pedestrian bridge by the Hilton, $19,150. Nice to see they are leaving the bridge, and I saw today they were putting new hand railing on it. I guess I need to get in the business of designing and engineering hand railing on an existing bridge, pays pretty good. I guess our own engineering department at the city couldn’t figure that one out on their own. Maybe we don’t have any engineers that work for the city that have hand railing experience?

My favorite though is the A/C unit for city hall’s computer room (I’m hoping this is a typo and they mean the A/C unit for the entire building) $145,834. At that price, they could recreate the ice age in the computer room. I do think though the A/C will be counter productive, as of right now we need to fire up SIRE fifteen minutes in advance to get it cooking enough for public meetings, and WE ARE USING THE OLD A/C SYSTEM!

And lastly, the IcePlex and TennisPlex agreements with the city.

Ice Facility; Iceplexagreement

Tennis Facility; tennisagreement

20 Thoughts on “Misc. City News; Jamison, Director Updates & Agreements

  1. I don’t think Jamison should be touting the fact that his campaign manager worked closely with Jason Gant.

  2. anonymous on November 4, 2013 at 8:17 pm said:

    FYI

    Transit Task Force Meeting (first mtg of the TF)

    Wednesday, November 6, 2013 3:30pm

    Location: Carnegie Town Hall: Multi-Purpose Room

    235 W. 10th Street

  3. Testor15 on November 5, 2013 at 9:08 am said:

    I had hopes for Greg but having so closely ID’d with Gant bothers me.

  4. Winston on November 5, 2013 at 9:30 am said:

    “Jamison for Mayor” brought to you by ALEC……

  5. I wondered why Garrett’s name sounded familiar

  6. Testor15 on November 5, 2013 at 10:44 am said:

    The fake libertarian / ALEC connections are just what we need.

  7. anonymous on November 5, 2013 at 1:52 pm said:

    I think Jamison just made a huge mis-calculation hiring the former West River Regional Field Director for the SDGOP.

    The race for Mayor is supposed to be a non-partisan race.

    Huether must be ecstatic about this news!

  8. Winston on November 5, 2013 at 2:21 pm said:

    Unless, Huether is not running for Mayor, rather he is running for Governor because he probably has known of the rumors about the current investigations into the Rounds/Daugaard administrations for sometime; which would explain why Jamison was willing to risk his poiltical future in a run against Huether, because he really doesn’t think he is running against Huether and, thus, the SD GOP is currently using Jamison as their “Hatchet Man” to try to stop or diminish Huether’s electability with charges like the ones Jamison has publicly been alleging (in terms of personality and leadership style) against Huether at a recent county GOP Lincoln Day Dinner. Perhaps, the GOP is confident that Huether is running for Governor. There- fore their partisan fire across the bow using Jamison becomes more logical and cunning.

  9. For clarification, I checked into Garrett’s duties at the SOS’s office, he mostly handled absentee voting for military personnel serving overseas. Not sure if he ever partook in the BK Round tables or bumper sticker selling business.

    As for partisan, not sure what to think, always felt Huether was a Democrat in name only, but hung with the party because he is a big fish with the Dems, he wouldn’t have that kind of recognition in the Republican party.

  10. Winston on November 5, 2013 at 2:48 pm said:

    DL, your partisan views on Huether may be totally correct, but it is about perception here and not reality; and the reality of two different cliques of similar interests competing makes perception that much more important than reality if they are going to distinguish themselves from each other and hopefully prevail over the other.

  11. Winston your theory about Jamison being a secret operative tasked with harming Huether’s image is an interesting one, but more well suited for the fiction aisle of the downtown library.

    Let’s be serious for a moment. Jamison does have a real desire to serve his community, and he has aspirations. I don’t get the impression he has any interest in harming anyone’s reputation but instead would rather differentiate himself from his opponent.

    I also have my doubts that Huether will even bother to run for Governor. Like him or not, Daugaard is well liked by his party, and Huether is an East River “outsider” who would have a lot of difficulty winning votes West River. I know the man has dreams of a big office in Pierre, but quite frankly I’m not sure he is electable.

  12. You are probably right about the governor run, just got word that Huether is gearing up his mayoral fundraising efforts very soon.

  13. I see it will cost you $5 to appeal a $5 parking ticket. Still think it should be $0.

    http://docs.siouxfalls.org/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1990&doctype=AGENDA

  14. There was also no problem with a $145,000 computer room A/C (backup unit). I realize installation is included, but holy shit! A backup UNIT!

  15. Winston on November 6, 2013 at 1:08 pm said:

    Craig, Huether’s personal wealth could easily soften Pennington County in terms of voter turn-out. He wouldn’t carry Pennington, but he could take an average of 33% for Democratic candidates in Pennington County and increase it up to 45%, which can help to make a big difference in the statewide total.

    I still think Jamison is a “Hatch Man” for the SDGOP when it comes to Huether.

    Daugaard is extremely vulnerable. Hubbel is going to do much better than she should in the gubernatorial primary, because most of the voters who support someone other than Rounds for the Senate will most likely fold to her in protest. Especially, if this “Eb-5gate” story takes hold and implicates the Rounds and Daugaard administrations even further. Also, this pending scandal has the potential to catapult Huether into the Governor’s chair and negate any “West River” concerns for Democrats in 2014.

    2014 is no longer a cake walk for the SDGOP. If they can control this growing scandal and Noem can survive her votes to keep the Federal government closed, then they have a chance to survive these challenges, but these are big “ifs.”

    As far as the $ 5 for $ 5, well, our Mayor did say he was going to run Sioux Falls like a business….. It reminds me of credit card companies who use to charge for a copy of your credit card statement or charge you to talk to a customer service representative….. Maybe that’s where the idea came from?……

  16. I honestly don’t understand how anybody could ever vote for an imbecile like Hubbel. She should get 0 votes for any office she runs for!

  17. Winston on November 6, 2013 at 2:17 pm said:

    The thought that she served in the SD H. of Rep. and was elected is mind boggling, but in 2014 they won’t be voting for her rather they will be voting against Daugaard and “EB-5gate.”

  18. Scott – I went thru the painstaking task of watching her press conference where she announced she was running for governor. She literally rambled for 30 minutes or so about all kinds of things. It was painful. I would rather listen to the book club ladies I wait on for 4 hours straight then to listen to that performance ever again.

  19. Hubbel had something on her Facebook page rambling on about Obama reading a book from a fellow Muslim or something like that…. make me wonder if she is a birther too.

    Then over at Kelo she started attacking people who were leaving comments on an article about her…. or was it the Argus? Mind you they weren’t any more harsh than the normal daily comments you see… but she obviously can’t keep her mouth shut and the reaction from other posters was a goldmind.

    Then of course she is a climate change denialist so there is that. Read her rants about Cap and Trade (some of which are only available via Google cache as she must be trying to improve her image) and see how disconnected from science she really is.

    I almost forgot – she is worried that the pictures on our drivers licenses are too high of resolution and therefore Pierre might have a database full of our iris scans just waiting for the gub’mint to track us.

    I have to agree with Scott on this one – I’m not sure how anyone could vote for her. Of course, it is possible some people just feel she is entertaining and are waiting to see what she might say next.

  20. anonymous2 on November 9, 2013 at 8:06 pm said:

    If we only “really knew” how many $’s out of the city funds went to engineering companies around town–just so they could manage this or that or do this or that little thing–like managing putting in a sidewalk that a cement contractor is putting in!!

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