October 2016

Hat jest to Rex Oct 11, 2016

Our in resident arbiter of hat protocol decided to create a scene during the Sioux Falls City Council public input on October11, 2016 when Dan Daily decided to wear a proper hat for the occasion.

To prove a point, Dan Daily wore his jester’s hat to prove what a fool Rex Rolfing has become during his hat tirades. From Wiki: A jester, court jester, or fool was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests.

In medieval times the jester entertained by making humor out of things the powerful were doing. The nobility of the court were never to be criticized or laughed at so it was up to the jester to drive home the point and get the tension out of the room. Dan’s answer to the ridiculous crap Rex has been spewing about hats must end. Did this do it? When Dan called Rex out of order and the mayor asked Dan to continue, Rex left the room. Good job Dan!

There was much more including two garbage haulers speaking against the 1st reading of three really badly written ordinances affecting them. Their talks may have killed at least one of the proposals later in the evening.

The irony of voting ‘NO’ on the outdoor pool

Here is a new video about reaction.

When Tom Simmons spoke the other day, he actually was closer to the truth than he or the mayor ever could have realize. The 2014 voter was asked to select a YES box for a new OUTDOOR pool. A NO vote was to reject the outdoor pool. There never was an indoor pool on the ballot so a NO vote could be for no pool at all or maybe a larger outdoor pool or the natural pool proposal. The city never asked for other solutions. The mayor and his cronies took the outdoor pool loss as their justification for moving forward on the extravagance of an indoor facility costing 1,500,000.00 per year in deficits over the $25+ millions cost to build not counting the interest on the borrowed levee money ($30 million approx.).

In other words, did the 22,177 Simmons mentioned voting NO on the outdoor pool are going to be in hiding as they realize they let Huether going ahead on Sioux Falls spending at least $100 million dollars during its 50 year lifetime?

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Midco Exec thinks we voted on an Indoor Pool

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It amazes me that an executive from the company that is sponsoring the project is still peddling the lie that we ‘voted on this’. He said this during the grand opening ceremony (FF: 9:20);

“I’m going to guess in not to long of a period of time from now, after the community has had the opportunity to visit and take advantage of this fabulous facility, it’s gonna be darn near impossible to find anyone in Sioux Falls to admit they voted no. And if they do, just shake your head and just say, every once in awhile nobody is perfect we all make mistakes.”

The mayor even goes on to say that ‘22,193 citizens who voted . . . to support our new indoor pool’ (19:20).

Yeah, I’m shaking my head that you would make the mistake of blurting out a lie. He knows better. Even after the falsehoods sold to us in the advocational sessions and election campaign leading up to the project, the players in this cheating game can’t resist to get in one last dig and lie about the pool.

One person chose to build the indoor pool. Mike Huether. There was no vote (on an indoor pool) and it wasn’t entirely paid for with cash. You would think, that with the pool already built, they could finally start telling the truth. I guess not. You won, why continue to lie?