Lalley has been digging around on a whole host of city stuff lately, would love to share, but it’s a process, and more to come in the following weeks. I don’t think Paul is too happy with Patrick these days.
This is probably one of the best council ads I have seen in a long time. Funny and poignant.
UPDATE: It may be this candidate’s employer that got their hands slapped for mistakes and NOT the employee themself. Either or, they were terminated, but NOT for corruption or fraud. It still wasn’t good though 
But I have heard so many different versions to the story it’s like trying to figure out which district Selberg is living in.
ORGINAL POST
Over the past couple of months I have been watching the city council races. One candidate seems to bug a lot of people and I have had dozens of people tell me this person was fired from their last job, but nobody would tell me why.
I always had the same answer, “Lots of people get fired for lots of reasons. I’ve been fired before, sometimes I screwed up, sometimes management sucked, etc. This is NO reason to disqualify someone to run for city council.”
So I pretty much put it to bed. If I don’t know why this person was terminated, and NO ONE wants to tell me, there is not much else to say.
Until today.
A person tells me the same thing I have already heard a dozen times, they were fired. So I asked, like I normally do, WHY? They spilled.
Now, this candidate has never told anyone they were terminated or why, but they made this announcement on FB last year about starting a NEW job in the same field;
Usually when you leave a job and you have a cell phone connected to that, you would probably lose your work phone, but if you were fired and it was for very bad stuff, they would certainly take your phone.
I have fed this enlightenment to some journalists in town that are working the details. But I will say, the termination was NOT because of a disagreement or policy dispute, the best way I can describe it without dipping to much into finer details was it was because of corruption and likely is still being investigated.
Hopefully we will see something in the Sioux Falls MSM in the coming days, hopefully before the election, because this person is not only unqualified to serve, if they were alledgedley fired for these reasons, they may have a ‘record’ that doesn’t allow them to serve. (I’m not talking about Bobbie either
The smart thing to do would be to drop out before the election.
*As for all the council candidates wondering if it is them, trust me, this person knows who I am talking about, and none of the other candidates could hold a candle to these kind of shenanigans.
Also, it’s NOT Jordan Deffenbaugh, he’s only guilty of rocking a cool haircut 
Stuart? Or is it Wade? So not only does this school board candidate fail to vote in the district he wants to serve, he struggles with his name.
Reminds me of Marion Mike Rounds going by Mike. What is there to hide?
And is Wade a bad name? Maybe it isn’t right-winger enough? Who knows?
But if a candidate can’t be honest about their voting record or their name, do you want them to serve you?
UPDATE II: Ran into a local journalist, almost literally tonight. They told me they called Selberg and asked him about the move. He didn’t deny it and said that he needed to move on after his council service and owns several properties. So where do you live Marshall? Mars? Your last meeting is May 21st, and you must be in compliance until then. What Mr. Selberg doesn’t understand is that you can still be brought up on ethics and perjury charges AFTER you are done on the council.
Technically, on the books, Mr. Selberg is your councilor. But is he still legally? Going thru voter registration, you find some interesting things. Selberg registered to vote in the Northwest District this past February;
Name: Marshall Selberg A
ADDRESS: 3208 W WOODCREST WAY
CITY: SIOUX FALLS SD 57105
CITYWARD: Sioux Falls Ward-3
He has owned the property since October 2022 (not sure has he lived there that long, but a possibility).
So I wonder how this is going to get explained away?
Now there are some rules that if redistricting occurs and the property you live in MOVES into the new district, you can still serve out your term in the new district. BUT, if you buy property and MOVE after the redistricting, that doesn’t count.
UPDATE: I guess Marshall Selberg thinks listing his former address on his campaign finance form AFTER he changed his voter registration was a good idea. He changed his voter registration to NW in February and his treasurer signed this form in early March. So where do you live Marshall? NW or SW? So I guess when Marshall is acting as a councilor he lives in the SW when he votes he lives in the NW. So does the person who lives in your old address KNOW you are using their address on a legal document? Probably not, guessing we all know who is living in the former address.
Also, did you bother to tell your treasurer your new address? You know, by her signing this she is committing perjury by putting a false address on the form. So is she part of the conspiracy, or did you lie to her also?
So the whole ‘honest mistake’ argument isn’t carrying much water with me. Everyone knows what their legal address is, especially someone who has served on the council for 8 years. And I would hope the treasurer would know the REAL address of the candidate. I almost want to stop digging around on this, every corner I go around I see another form filled out wrong, what a trainwreck. This is just like the Title IX Plaintiff that is running for School Board, just fill out forms willy nilly, and guess what, no one of authority will look into it, the media will run the other direction, heck even give you a heads up and tell you screwed up then don’t cover the mistake in the news because that would be too ‘negative’.
Now we will see if anyone on the current city council or media want to challenge this one. Probably not. If it helps I heard he filled out the documents at a chamber event in the back of a food truck while making walking tacos (for Denny Sanford).
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