Mike & his Bride in Germany complaining about how he can’t use his credit card (probably because it was maxed out)
Usually the ‘first lady’ of any administration takes on a cause. What cause has Mayor Mike’s ‘bride’ taken on to better our community? Domestic violence, pay equality, more affordable day care, feeding the poor and housing the homeless? Maybe she has taken on some of these causes privately, but not publicly, unlike her favorite cause, TENNIS. You know, that mysterious sport that about 99.9999% of Sioux Falls residents DON’T play, yet for some reason we have more tennis courts in this town then tennis players.
Okay, I know what you are thinking, I’m going to be picking on the mayor’s wife a little bit here, and I shouldn’t make things personal. I try not to, but since the mayor thought it was just fine and dandy to use the taxpayer funded city website and communication resources to brag about her personal accomplishments, she now has become free game;
First Lady of Sioux Falls Cindy Huether is recognized as the 2016 National Tennis Advocate of the Year by Tennis Industry magazine in its 2016 Tennis Champions issue. Cindy Huether is the executive director of the Sioux Falls Tennis Association and has worked diligently to grow the sport, especially youth programming, and to help improve indoor and outdoor facilities for tennis.
To read the full article featuring Cindy, go to www.tennisindustrymag.com/issues/201701/champions.php.
Mayor Mike and Cindy Huether were also recently named “South Dakota’s Tennis Hero†in The Heroes Issue of Tennis magazine (November/December 2016).
“Just getting the community involved†is Cindy Huether’s mantra when it comes to tennis in Sioux Falls, S.D. As executive director of the Sioux Falls Tennis Association, Huether has done that and more to build tennis from the ground up. In developing the city’s tennis infrastructure, Huether’s accomplishments are vast. She provides equipment to elementary school and day-care facilities, was instrumental in building one of the nation’s first-ever permanent, 36-foot court tennis complexes, Spellerberg Park, and organized Recreation Coaches Workshops for all teachers in the city—to name a few. Huether and her husband, Mike (below), who is the current mayor of Sioux Falls, have also opened their personal checkbook to grow tennis, providing the lead gifts on both the Huether Tennis Center at Augustana College in 2009 and the new Huether Family Match Pointe Indoor Tennis Center, which opened in 2015.
Opened their ‘personal checkbooks’. Boy, they have this organization suckered.
As far as I can tell, the only accomplishments the first lady has accomplished was getting the taxpayers of Sioux Falls to foot the bill for her and Mike’s private ventures;
- Like suckering the city council to gift the Match Pointe $500K of tax money, then putting up cones to block people from parking in the lot.
- Privately investing in housing projects that receive TIF’s from the city (gigantic conflict of interest).
- She was however unsuccessful in securing BID money to promote the Match Pointe (BID money is supposed to be used by the CVB to promote the city and tourism, not tennis). In which her enraged GROOM created a task force to try to steal the BID money (he was also unsuccessful getting his mitts on the money . . . for now).
So, maybe this isn’t really a dig on the first lady of Sioux Falls, but more of an informational on her accomplishments and I provide you this FREE information without spending a penny of your tax dollars.