A foot soldier sent me this STORY and said, “It is a shame they don’t practice what they preach.”;
“If I had a message for people in Sioux Falls as we go into the holiday season — take the opportunity to be intentional,” Pritchett said. “Support your local retailers, local restaurants and try to do as much as your shopping here as you can. Because these are the people that employ individuals in our community, they pay the property taxes for the buildings that they may be operating in and they really do help support the local economy in more ways than just buying online.”
While Fireball is telling us all to spend locally, the city, the finance department, him and Poops have been running this city into the ground for 7 years (this is what happens when you hire church buddies). Poops has directed millions in no-bid contracts to out-of-state vendors. Some of this stuff can’t be done locally, and shouldn’t, like internal audit (which ironically should be ALL internal, that is literally the name of the department!). But most of these contracts could have been awarded locally and thru an RFP process. Not only saving taxpayers millions but the money awarded to these companies would re-circulate in the community thru wages and consumer sales, as Fireball so cleverly has stated above.
I try to buy locally as much as possible, but it’s easier to find the Holy Grail in Sioux Falls then a bike part. I have been telling people though if you do want to eat out, always go to an immigrant restaurant. Always delicious, unique, fresh, and the best service. So yeah, shop local, wonder if Fireball will figure out how to take his own advice? Because internet sales is all that has been floating us for 7 months, something he conveniently left out of the story.
Shop local? That’s something I would expect more from the Madison Chamber or the Dell Rapids Chamber, but not from any local SF civic leader. Could it be that locals are just not into $23 hamburgers any more and how much was that Minervas burger during the Burger Battle? If we really want to shop local, then maybe only local talent should be allowed to perform at the local events center, and perhaps we should bring the Fawick Flyer back into production for Billion, huh? Shop local: Hell, I shop cheap and will do business with anyone as long as I feel I’m getting the better hand.
“You know, that’s the one thing I hate about the end of the Holiday season, because then the Burger Battle bullshxt begins once again” ….. 🙁
The surrounding hundred mile radius shops in Sioux Falls. Outside city limits areas gets no benefit from sales tax. Sioux Falls is 200k people with a 3/4 billion budget. Huh? Obviously, there’s outrageous fraud because there’s no competitive bid process and the city charter is unconstitutional favoring the mayor as king. Another Walmart and Costco should happen at Exit 1 off I-90 east from Brandon. No tax on food and clothing in Minnesota. Everybody gets an 8 percent raise. Sioux Falls would have to return to democracy to pay for infrastructure. Political organized crime would move on to another city. Hopefully, out of state closer to their homeland of Chicago.