Mayor TenHaken

Popelitical Satire

So ‘Norm’ gave me this idea today;

‘The cummerbund helps with the aching back’

I am not sure what to think of it, it’s kind of funny, but a little out of place. So I am running a contest, whoever writes the best caption I will take to Dakota Craft Links for a wonderful sausage lunch . . . but yah gotta sit and eat it with me 🙂 Oh, and I run a dictatorship, so I decide, but feel free to nag me about who you like the best.

Speaking of silliness, looks like Noem is going to have some good attendance at her little speech at DSU on Saturday. I think it is going to be a madhouse. The organizing of protesters on social media is exploding. I know several folks from SF attending the event. I’m sure the Madison town cops are preparing by skipping Taco Johns for lunch this week 🙁 and only eating coleslaw and Bevita breakfast bars.

Distasteful?!

So Mayor Poops MisTaken said this about Trump’s rendition of the Pope;

To see this content posted from the official account of the White House, less than 2 weeks after the passing of Pope Francis, is incredibly distasteful. Decorum still matters in the public square, and everyone across the political spectrum should find this unacceptable.

While I commend him for trying to correct our president like he did before the election when he defended Haitians and their culinary preferences. But this is the same dude who gave Trump a B minus in his first term. But what irks me is it took making fun of a religious leader to get you to budge?! Really!? What the H’ck is wrong with you?! And while I agree it was a horrible thing to do, it was clearly satire. Even Worm infested Sally Tomato knew this was satire.

But why not call him out when he sexually assaulted women? Or when he bankrupt folks? Or when he mistreats minorities in blatant racist rants? Or when he cheats on his current wife with a pornstar? I guess those things are NOT a redline for you? But, boy, when he mocks a Christian leader, I better say something. Gawd Blez Yah. Paul, we both know you voted for Trump, twice. Don’t think you are going to change him. That ship sailed with his waistline years ago. I know you EvenJelloLickers look at Sally as your special project, but once an atheist always an atheist. That is what he is, and you know it, you just don’t want to accept it. As for abortion, if he wasn’t the Republican candidate for president he would have put Misoprostol vending machines on every street corner of every major city in this country.

Distasteful? More like dismal.

Do ALL Downtown SF Businesses support Saturday metering?

The short answer is NO, and probably why they skirted this move administratively instead of bringing it in front of the council where DTSF businesses could air their grievances in the public square. I supported this based on 1) That DTSF (the org) reassured the council that DT businesses support this* 2) it will ONLY be on Phillips and you can still park for free in the ramps (which I think will gradually be used more due to the Saturday metering on Phillips).

*At first glance I am hearing that only about half of DTSF businesses support this, the rest are ‘wait and see’. This of course is from random conversations I had with DTSF business owners, workers in DTSF and some city staff. Nothing scientific.

I have no idea what kind of support it has.

Which brings us to the crux of the issue. Besides being the council’s duty to vote on new taxes and fees, and a First and Second reading would have allowed people who own businesses DTSF and work DTSF to share their opinions. Maybe most of them support it? I don’t know, and we never will because the process was not followed and the council, once again, allowed a precedent by the mayor’s office. Tsk! Tsk! I sometimes wonder if Trump is our shadow mayor.

It’s going to get a lot more expensive to run for local office

I didn’t say that, our mayor did. A few weeks back there was an article in one of the local circle jerk publications where they interviewed Curtis the Blurtist and Poops about the change in local elections (I support a November election though the council may be leaning towards June, which is bad because of the partisanship). Since most of the council is Republican I have no doubt that a majority including the mayor support a June election because it is mostly attended by Republicans so if they do just a little bit of research they will figure out who the conservative Republican is running for council and pick them based solely on that. If we move council elections to June, we will never have an indy or dem on the council again. And that was the ultimate goal of the legislature by doing this. Let’s just say they are gerrymandering using an election instead of a district.

But I want to talk about a quote in the article by Poops. He basically said that local elections will get more expensive when they have to compete with campaign advertising space with legislative candidates, etc. He isn’t wrong, it will get more expensive, but guess who started us down this ‘expensive’ road? TenHaken. This is a guy who handpicked council candidates then created his own PAC so he could funnel thousands of dollars towards his preferred puppet candidates and now he questions the cost of running in a local race. LMFAO! You are part of the problem PAUL! Not to mention this is a guy who attained a large part of his personal wealth designing websites for campaigns and getting his DSU ‘Doxxing Team’ on it. So now you are complaining about MONEY in politics?! Money is what got you and your puppet show elected, because it certainly wasn’t leadership skills.

So Erica Beck wants to run for mayor? LOL.

Not sure what is going on, but several months ago I was told she was running and had the endorsement of Poops. Then this Micah guy showed up and I thot the Beckster was done. Now she is resigning in June and said, “I want to hang with the grandkids.” Oldest excuse in the book. We know you are running. You have been running the city since you have been COS as one of the first thing’s Jumping Jack Flash did was give her the authority to sign mayoral documents when he is ‘absent’ and she has been running the city ever since.

What I find completely arrogant is as her tenure as our shadow mayor nothing has gotten accomplished except shipping dusty monkeys to the East Coast. So many failures under her leadership it is hard to keep track.

But this is what happens when you pull authoritarian leadership and the people (the council) tunes you out.

I have written in the past the former folks who worked with Beck at Lloyd Companies have told me the same thing, SHE IS NOT A CONSENSUS BUILDER. I have also heard from multiple current and past councilors that she is a brow beater when it comes to the mayor’s agenda proposals, and they ain’t happy about it.

The irony of all this is Erica reached out to me after she quit the city and we had coffee and a long chat (mostly her talking). She was a different person. She told me she quit the planning department after MMM forced her to write the Sanford TIF in which she said to me, “This TIF was precedent because this has never been done before for a recreational event center.” Oh, and she was completely opposed to it. She also tried to bring a casino to Sioux Falls (Flandreau Tribe) to use their revenues to pay for the event center in which they pledged $10 million a year towards the bond payments but Mike refused to meet with them because he didn’t want a ‘casino’ in town. LOL. The town is nothing but casinos, but I digress.

She had a good head on her shoulders, but after tasting the power of working for Lloyd she seems to think she has the Chutzpah to do the job. Not even F’ing close!

Besides the horrible management of the city, Beck embraces non-transparent government, which costs taxpayers $$$$. She can’t even say why she is quitting. So I guess your mayoral campaign strategy is to keep this secret as long as you can then surprise people? Weird. If you are running, you tell everyone and your sister, and you continue to let that steam out. Huether won because he was relentless and not mysterious (what a weird dude, and this is coming from a weird dude). The one thing I learned about running successful city campaigns is you come out early and you pound constituents with information about your candidacy. I guess Beck’s strategy is to keep it a secret until election day and hopefully peeps will be confused and vote for her. I can’t believe we are letting this putz run our city (into the ground).

My hope is that she will run for mayor, spend $500K and come in dead last. The chamber folks might think you are the best thing since sliced bread, but their 100 votes won’t get you past the finish line. Can’t wait for you to announce. Jim Entenman part II.