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Mayor Hubris
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The Gargoyle and their guest cartoonist, Daiker, had another ‘write your own caption’ toon. As you may know, our crass commentary on DaCola would probably not be allowed in the confines of such a fine newspaper, so write your own caption here, and say ‘Fuck You’ to the local media editorial mediocre; yhawkins@argusleader.com
Here is my rant;
“We’ve already dumped over $40 million of taxpayer money into this white elephant, I would think the parking would be FREE by now. Heck, you cops park for FREE at Mickey D’s or the AVERA Emergency parking lot (to eat free meals) all day long. What gives?!”
‘I will be the most open mayor in the history of Sioux Falls’ – Mike Huether
Of course I was paraphrasing, but Mr. Openness talked about this all the time during the campaign because he often took Staggers ideas and repackaged them with a smile;
“As we have discussed, the items you requested were part of the drafts of notes and recommendations which were used as part of the deliberative process during discussions with different members of the City Council regarding the possible Events Center,†Cotter wrote in an email denying the request.
“The initial notes and recommendations are items that are specifically exempt by law from disclosure,†he wrote.
Huether campaigned on a platform of government openness earlier this year, but he has refused to share the presentation with the public.
Mike, you really look stupid with this one. And throwing your whipping boy out there to make excuses for you is weak.
Is Huether hiding secret drawlings?
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I could care less about him already having plans drawn up;
A day after the Sioux Falls City Council approved $500,000 toward a new events center, city officials aren’t revealing drawings or other information that Mayor Mike Huether showed councilors in closed-door meetings.
During those gatherings, small groups of councilors were shown a presentation with drawings of the location and other details of Huether’s vision for a $99.5 million events center.
Who cares. What bothers me is that he lied to the citizens in a public meeting about ‘Not having a plan’ and even worse five councilors jump on board with a plan based on a lie. Mike says a lot of crazy shit, whatever, but lying to the public is uncool. It may have worked in the CC industry, it doesn’t fly in the public sector.
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I said it during the campaign, and Huether has proved me right, he has never had an Events Center plan
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Huether’s Event Center Plan
Gotcha! Huether finally admits that all his bullshit spin and talky-talk was just that;
“There has been no plan presented. There’s been none. There’s only been dialogue in terms of a potential vision of what it could be,” he said.
The dialogue – much of which Huether shared with councilors behind closed doors – included the $99.5 million facility to be built near the Arena and possibly tearing up nearly half of Earl McCart Fields for parking. The plan will also require a public vote. As residents discussed support and concern about a downtown location Monday night, there was confusion about what location the $500,000 would study. Jamison asked Huether for clarification about the location.
“There has been no plan presented to the people,” Huether responded. “So Councilor Jamison I can’t answer your questions because there is no plan.”
“So then to be crystal clear, this $500,000 is essentially another study,” Jamison said.
Like I said to Mike on a repeated basis in emails and on this website, he has NEVER had an Events Center plan, and finally, once put up against the wall by Jamison and Brown he had to admit it.
And what’s up with Hildy stealing Carter’s thunder?
This was a logo I designed for Carter in July.
I’m trying to figure out how this group came from nowhere? Who is really behind it? Hildy? Huether? This is a little suspicious to me. Their first post was August 28th;
Steven C. Hildebrand Downtown is a great entertainment district. Restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping and lots to do. Washington Pavilion, Falls Park, special events and soon, the re-opening of the Historic State Theatre. This is where the Events Center should be!