April 2017
l3wis LEAD (Leaders Engaged & Determined) Dem Forum, 4/14/2017
LEAD did their presentation today. I applaud the group and their priorities (DOC: LEAD-SF). I have often believed that we need MORE women as legislators and political leaders, heck, 50% would even be a nice goal!
But during the Q & A session it was revealed that the growing pains are becoming a reality. They started out with about 100 members and have grown online to around 2,100Â in just a few short months (mostly due to the anti-Trump sentiment).
While I also applaud them on being non-partisan, as a women’s political group, they are going to have to ask some serious questions about their platform and that’s where the growing pains begin. It seems they want to recruit candidates for local races and the legislature but have yet to implement a platform.
This is troublesome.
While I say ‘Hell Yah’ to candidate recruitment, especially on a local level, you best have your ducks in a row when it comes to a platform and policy positions. While having a desire to run for office is a great thing, you better know what you stand for before you announce your candidacy, and you best have it set in stone. It will be the script you must stick to throughout your campaign, and should be SIMPLE and CONCISE. Remember good government is very easy, it’s based on common sense, not some special interest mantra or dogma.
I wish them luck in their endeavors and hope they form a strong platform soon, rather then later.
Glory House
Mayor High Crimes
Mayor Hubris
Mayor Subprime Mike Huether
Mike Huether
SF City Council
Sioux Falls
How many people has the Huether Match Pointe kept out of prison?
While the Glory House and the Board of Directors may be happy with the deal the city cut with them, I for one am not. It’s another example of the mayor’s bullying, not only with the Glory House but the council to get his way;
“A great team of leaders from the administration worked hard to meet the needs Glory House has for expansion but also find some common ground, which will end up as a big win for the taxpayers, too,†said Heather Hitterdal, communication specialist at City Hall.
Under the deal, Glory House will pay $50,000 and in return receive about half of the land the city owns there now. The rest will be sold at auction.
How much that will rake in for the city won’t be known until it’s sold, but market value puts it in the neighborhood about $300,000 or more.
The public ALREADY WON before the deal was struck. I would even argue that the deal is worse for taxpayers because it doesn’t leave room for expansion of the GH. It costs taxpayers $54 a day to incarcerate someone in state prison, about $20K a year. If you keep just 3 people out of prison for one year, you already made your money back, and heck, if you keep those same 3 people out of prison for 5 years, you have paid for the entire plot of land.
How many people has the tennis center kept out of prison? Or better yet, what VALUE has the tennis center gave us? Will we ever recoup the $500K we dumped into this facility? A facility I hear can barely keep it’s doors open especially after the dust up with Cindy Huether and the SFTA.
See unlike the Tennis Center that uses the funny math of ‘quality of life’ the Glory House can actually show REAL numbers of what keeping ex-cons out of prison saves taxpayers. The $50K price-tag was an amount to soothe the Mayor’s MONSTER ego more then anything.
“I think it’s a win-win-win all around. It’s a way in which we can help the Glory House and do the right thing but we can also protect the taxpayer dollar and get some revenue out of a piece of the land,†he said. “I applaud the administration for coming around in the spirit of compromise and coming up with something that everybody can live with.â€
And once again, the mayor can’t keep his nose out of where it doesn’t belong, the council’s business. This ‘deal’ was initiated by the council, and should have been finished by them.
UPDATE: City ‘audio’ records an annexation meeting with what looks like a baby monitor
UPDATE: Word has it that the audio recording the city attempted failed on Tuesday (We hope to have our version of the meeting up soon). I guess this has prompted the city to move the meetings not only to 5:30 at night, but to Carnegie so they can be live stream recorded and watched from home in real time. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, April 26.
What I found ironic was this very large public meeting was being recorded with this rinky-dink device while at the very exact time, City Link had a crew over at City Hall recording the Fire Chief’s announcement of his new golden parachute job . . . oh and retirement, filled with lots of hugs from the mayor, apparently his BFF for over 20 years. Remember, when it come to City Link and media, Mayor’s propaganda is 1st priority.
Now this is transparency folks. With several city directors and task force members speaking as well as almost 200 people from the public, the city’s idea of transparency is a simple audio recording that they will ‘post to the internet’.
Funny, we can spend over $400 an episode to watch the Mayor take questions from HS kids during a ‘Shut up and Listen’ episode, but this is what we are reduced to for a public meeting of utmost importance.
Even councilor Neitzert seems to be amused by this advanced technology.
Argus’ new entertainment reporter writes puff piece on ticket sales at the Denny
Here we go again, breaking in another new reporter at the Argus that allows city hall and it’s minions to buffalo them into a puff piece.
It was so nice of Chris to tell us this;
“I don’t think you’ll find a market of our size with a venue of our size that has had the number and the level of touring events that we’ve had the last two and a half years in the country,” said Chris Semrau, assistant general manager for SMG, the management company for the Premier Center.
Pollstar, an international touring publication that collects venue ticket sales, ranked the Premier Center as No. 88 in the world for tour ticket sales in 2016. That does not include sporting or special events. Usually new venues decrease in rank their second year, but the Premier Center rose 12 slots from No. 100 in the world in 2015. The facility is already doing better in 2017 than consultants for the city had projected.
And that sales number are what? Still a highly guarded secret apparently.
Chris also added this;
“We have hosted many country tours for multiple reasons, first financially. They do very well in this market.”
Just how much have the artists made at the EC?
More smoke and mirrors to cloud what we really want to know. Stop with the BS and just give us the actual numbers. How much money is going straight out the door.