Besides the smiling faces at a native massacre committed by the United States Army and Federal Government, it would at least be a nice gesture to label who the Tribal leaders are. They are easy to identify, they are NOT smiling.
Did you know our country was founded on a protest, the Boston Tea Party;
The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest on December 16, 1773 during the American Revolution. Initiated by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, one of the Thirteen Colonies of British America, it escalated hostilities between Great Britain and the Patriots, who opposed British policy towards its American colonies.[1] Less than two years later, on April 19, 1775, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, also in Massachusetts, launched the eight-year American Revolutionary War, which resulted in the independence of the colonies as the United States.
That’s right folks, our country was founded on protest. So when I hear elected officials on all levels of government bemoan protesters I get angry, then I get even.
After watching the testimony last week at the council meeting and now a petition drive, I think to myself, this is the time to keep the momentum moving. Trust in local government is below 50% according to the latest survey, this is the time to pile on. Someone asked me if I had anything to do with all the testimony and petition drive. No. It was all organic. I did encourage some advocates behind the scenes that this would bring the community together and maybe finally get the council to vote accordingly. Because push back now from the council comes with consequences. Like 5 hour meetings and petition drives, and there are more plans for more civil disobedience.
Last night at the Mankato, MN council meeting, the council was so paranoid about the 300 people who showed up to chew ass about ICE raids in their city they slipped out a back door of the Ballroom and the citizens took over the dais and the meeting. (I am trying to find video). Pretty pathetic when your local government can’t even show up because they are SCARED of their constituents who dared to use the F word.
I told someone if SF would have pulled this, Paul would have called in SWAT, he really is that freaking paranoid.
How about you just listen? Oh, that’s right, you can’t do that. I was listening to those two dopes who run the government subsidized Tid-Bits tabloid you can find at Burger King and they said the council had to pass the rezone due to legal requirements. LOL. The compatibility study said N/A, which gives them EVERY legal authority to vote it down, but you see it the opposite way because you have to kiss the ass of your Masters. They also made fun of some of the arguments against it, all were legitimate, though Jeff and Mutt had to make fun of them also. I keep telling people I could care less about the 10 million arguments against a data center, the facts are reality, it will drive up utility costs across the state and region. And when you are voting against the financial interests of the entire community, we might have something to say about it.
This gentleman decided to use reverse psychology on the Dais, this happened last night also in another part of the country;
“If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”
UPDATE: I just recommend you view the meeting. It got really complicated really fast. Basically the CRC approved a ballot measure that, if passed by the voters, it would give ‘permission’ to the Council to create a committee and wage study for mayor and councilors. Hey, CRC, you know, the council can pass a resolution ANY Tuesday to approve this study, and they should, so we can put this stupid raise BS to bed. Councilor Merkouris testified that he was against this, I can’t remember all he said, but he did recognize that the perception and trust right now between the council and the public is pretty low and that the council needed to work on that before asking for a raise. Yah Think?!
I also found it ironic, once again, that the only items approved for the ballot were presented by city staff and CRC members. Why are CRC members presenting anything? That is NOT your job. These folks are obviously tone deaf, but I’m starting to think more and more they are also brain dead. You should listen to their CEO corporate argument BS, classic Rush 1997.
I hope when the video is posted the ending isn’t edited. So at the end they adjourned, and someone in the crowd wanted to say something further, and the chair told them it was already adjourned. Which, was the correct answer. But this person kept bugging folks that he wanted to speak, so the clerk, I think Denise, whispers to the chair, ‘Quick, do a voice vote, do a voice vote.’ and then the video cuts. It was funny because watching how these meetings have been run lately is like watching amateur hour.
MAYOR TENFOLD HAS AN EXIT STRATEGY
It’s just to bad it doesn’t include him moving out of the state. Probably does.
It’s a fascinating article (not really).
Poops is going to be a C-Suite CEO Leadership Mentor, says we can solve homelessness by having churches adopt transients and his greatest achievement as mayor was the leadership team he compiled. Yeah, that one made me keel over in laughter. Is this the same leadership team you pretty much fired? Or at least half of them? Do I need to provide the list? It is FREAKY long . . . he even once went to the public works garage and fired a pothole crew worker. He did something naughty, but NOT fire worthy. It really was a misunderstanding and I think an apology would have sufficed to the VIP who complained to Poops. Did you know Paul got booted out of a major fitness center before he was mayor. I asked this person why and he said Paul was doing ‘proselytizing’ workouts and taking over rooms and the establishment said, good bye.
It all makes sense NOW! This is why he likes to do jumping jacks with kids at the private Christian schools, he can only get a good workout if the good lord is watching over it. The other day I cramped up after a long bike ride, and I did quite a bit of ‘proselytizing’ 🙂
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We saw the tone deafness of the city council on full display Tuesday night, but proposing a ballot question that gives themselves raises in this economy and their piss poor performance is the epitome of TONE DEAF. Hey, it may not pass the muster of the Charter Revision Commission. They have two proposals on the table;
A one time bump or course correction and changing the percentage of mayoral pay that is afforded to the city council. Currently the council gets 15% of mayor’s salary, they want to bump it to 25%. I actually think it should be 10% and we should have at least 4-5 more councilors instead of paying more for less representation, it’s idiotic. But they are so tone deaf the CRC will pass this, the Council will review the ballot question and approve it for the June election. This will fail soooooo hard it is not even funny. They already tried this 2 years ago and we voted it down. They don’t get it. Seriously!!!
The city is set to start the next phase of the Minnesota Avenue rebuild between 2nd Street and 7th Street this Spring. The project will be $15 Million+. In the process they wanted to put pavers along Minnesota like in front of the City Center, and they want the stone reset in front of the City Center. So an independent contractor suggested to the city that when they put the pavers down Minnesota and reset the ones at the City Center they should pour a concrete pad underneath so they can’t sink and weeds don’t grow in them. I think they even suggested the faux poured pavers that are on Phillips Avenue. Nope, I guess they are going to go old school and just put it on sand so it will have to be redone in 10 years.
While I was talking to this gentleman he went on another rant about the engineering department at the city. He said they come and go as they please and he said, ‘Good luck getting anyone on the phone down there or responding to voicemails.’ He said a lot of other unflattering things also. I joked with him, ‘I have been saying for years they should fire all the city engineers and just hire a purchasing agent to replace them.’ Right now all city engineers do is read and approve engineering reports from independent contractors. They also write the RFPs.
I asked him what he thought of my theory that the Feds threatened the city over funding if they didn’t approve the data center. He said that it was a possibility since every department in the city gets money from the Feds. He agreed with my theory, ‘What if the city does everything the Feds want them to do and they still cut our funding? Then what?’ The city should just prepare for the budget shortfall until 2028 and lay off any city employees who receives department funding thru the Feds. Also, it is Congress that controls the purse strings and last I checked we have 3 Republicans representing us in DC, are they going to allow this kind of bullying? Trump just stopped a water project in Colorado for 50K residents because he is mad about that stupid bitch who broke so many state election laws that she got 9 years in state prison and Trump has threatened to bust her out using the Military. Something about a tank ramming the jail. Crazy crap. So his threats of budget cuts? Who cares and let’s just hope he gets a new pharmacist soon.
As for the Data Center I have two friends that work in the industry in Sioux Falls, and they have been sending me different information on how they work etc. They said that most of the Data Centers in Sioux Falls are no more then 30 MW (that is the largest) this proposed Data Center is 500 MW. Look at the power generation capacity we have;
So where will this power come from? Good question.
Most Data Centers have Server Racks in them and even some of the bigger ones in Sioux Falls only have a handful of employees with half of them handling security and janitorial. This is a power cord for just ONE rack of servers. It is about 4x the diameter of of a 210 power cord.
I’m hoping the petition drive is successful in stopping this, but I still think it could be stopped with a court order.
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