We saw it this past time around in the school board election where an outgoing board member recruited a replacement.
Now Sioux Falls city councilor Cole is chairing the campaign of an At-Large council candidate that wants to replace her. It doesn’t really matter who he is because he will NOT be getting my vote. I will spread the news about this unethical behavior.
• Councilor Cole is NOT running for re-election, in other words she is quitting but wants to make sure she can pick a replacement.
• This is highly unethical and not sure why local yocals are doing this lately (Poops was precedent on this).
• As a highly skilled medical doctor, Cole should know this is unethical behavior.
Guess who decides who will serve us on the council? THE VOTERS!
While it is certainly NOT unethical to advise this candidate or even volunteer for his campaign, recruiting him, endorsing him publicly and chairing his campaign isn’t right.
I hope Sux wakes up before the next election and start looking at candidates for who they are ETHICALLY instead who racks up the most donations and endorsements.
I also heard another candidate running for council MAY HAVE put down a false address. I will investigate and update (from what I found so far, he lives at the address listed on his campaign finance forms.
Cole’s the one who really put e-bikes on the bike trail, and now she is going to skip town? #ThanksALotCole!
I also hope that Cole explains to her replacement that if a candidate gets 50+% of the vote that there’s no run-off election, then. Because, if you remember right, Cole learned that one the hard way, when she agreed on election night back in ’22 with a local reporter that she was now in a run-off – which she actually wasn’t in – when they both mistakenly read the election returns wrong due to a mistake by the election administrators, which was obviously wrong to anyone with a third-grade understanding of math…. Apparently, in med school, math is no longer required….
pat starr and/or theresa stehley need to run for the at large seats.
Sarah Cole’s tenure on City Council has been a vacuous void (except, I guess VSG “credits” her for permitting E-bikes on the City recreational trail?).
Simply preposterous the premise that her influence should provide any sort of weight in the next council race.
I’m wondering if they will have to surgically remove Greg’s hand from her ass when her term is up? I’m sure she knows some good doctors 🙂