It ain’t over until the fat lady sings while eating her salty snacks from Walmart
l3wis 
As I suspected, the SD Supreme Court upheld the circuit court’s decision to allow the zoning for a 4th Walmart in Sioux Falls;
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So is it Gant or Litz that messed up? Makes you wonder?
Interesting the letter is dated June 6, then he spoke before the county commission on June 10 about still trying to resolve this.
Postmarked June 11.
and he didn’t even bother to sign the letter
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How much did they pay for a vote?
This is always a fun math project, seeing how much candidates and ballot committees paid for a vote. This is from the past municipal election
• Greg Jamison: $70,973 Votes: 13,939 Cost per vote: $5.08
• Mike Huether: $217,433 Votes: 17,612 Cost per vote: $12.35
At-large City Council A
• Rex Rolfing: $15,383 Votes: 15,165 Cost per vote: $1.01
• Emmett Reistroffer: recent report not filed
• Manny Steele: $3,907 Votes: 6,893 Cost per vote: $.57
At-large City Council B
• Christine Erickson: $25,380 Votes: 16,337 Cost per vote: $1.55
• Denny Pierson: $4,315 Votes: 8,793 Cost per vote: $.49
Central District City Council
• Rebecca Dunn: $5,714 Votes: 1,944 Cost per vote: $2.93
• Michelle Erpenbach: $16,127 Votes: 2,967 Cost per vote: $5.43
Southeast District City Council
• Rick Kiley: $8,535 Votes: 5,098 Cost per vote: $1.67
• Bonita Schwan: $1,221 Votes: 2,743 Cost per vote: $.45
Initiated Measure 2 on the Spellerberg pool
• Citizens for Saving Spellerberg: $760 Votes: 9,231 Cost per vote: $.08
• Community Swim 365: $125,494 Votes: 22,193 Cost per vote: $5.65
Referred Law 3 on the Shape Places zoning ordinance
• Forward Zoning: $8,600 Votes: 18,712 Cost per vote: $.46
• Save Your Voice: $310 Votes: 9,723 Cost per vote: $.03
Referred Law 4 on rezoning for a Walmart store
• Building a Better Sioux Falls: $468,701 Votes: 19,892 Cost per vote: $23.56
• Save Your Neighborhood: $3,233 Votes: 11,093 Cost per vote: $.29
If you go by cost per vote, the big winner of the night would be snowgates, which spent $0 per vote and won by over 75%. Walmart is really the loser, they had to spend $23.56 per vote. They should have just handed out gift cards. They actually spent 81x more then the competition. The fact remains, money wins elections, and if you look at these results you will see that the winners spent twice as much as the losers did per vote.
Christine Erickson
Elections
Mayor Hubris
Mayor Subprime Mike Huether
Michelle Erpenbach
Mike Huether
Rex Rolfing
Rick Kiley
SF City Council
Sioux Falls
Walfart
The final financial reports are in from the city election
No big surprises. It looks like Walmart threw in only an additional $33,000 in the last week before the election. Some interesting notes to point out in the candidate races were that Kiley received only ONE individual contributions right before the election, $250 from Cindy Huether. Cindy  also gave $250 to Tex Golfing & Michelle Erpenbach. How convenient that she gave this late in the game, knowing her name wouldn’t appear on a financial report until after the election. I guess she learned well from her sneaky husband.
Mayor Huether also had some interesting contributors. From PAC’s he got $1500 from two separate Unions, Citigroup gave $500, John Morrell’s (Smithfield) gave $1000, and one of the more interesting of his PAC contributors was HDR Engineering, which gave $500. HDR does a boatload of consulting for the city planning office. A very strange donation to Christine Erickson was from Kyle Schoenfish (used to be a Democrat, and is the son of Mayor Huether’s first cousin) who gave $125. Still trying to figure that one out.