A SouthDacola Foot Soldier sent me these webcam photos before his rally in Mitchell and afterwards. Seems he didn’t sell many books. Feel sorry for the dude that had to haul those books in and out.
Besides the fact that our city council and mayor’s office is on cruise control, our legal department is being ran by lazy numbskulls.
Just listen to the common sense legal advice from Mitchell’s City Attorney Justin Johnson;
“If we don’t put anything in place, then it is essentially the Wild West. I think it is important we get our regulations in the books even if we have to come back and make changes down the road,†Johnson said. “There is importance in getting our regulations in place before the state laws become effective, and the zoning side of things will determine where these types of businesses can be located and operate.â€
Yeah! What a concept, making changes later (if they have to) and having something in place so there isn’t chaos on July 1st.
I’ve lost all confidence in the supposed legal advice our city attorney gives, heck, he doesn’t even understand the 1st Amendment and prior restraint. I think it is pretty embarrassing and frankly egregious that towns like Yankton and Mitchell can figure out this simple law (which is spelled out in the initiative that passed into law) but for some reason in Minnehaha County and Sioux Falls we are too busy having secret meetings with our lobbyist (Municipal League) to find ways to kick the can down the road instead of facing reality.
If Commissioner Barth didn’t go to the media and myself, we would have never heard a peep from Councilor Neitzert and his secret endeavors and his hatred towards open government. At least we still have a handful of elected officials in local government who are willing to blow the whistle, it’s just too bad we have to look to local officials in much smaller cities for legislating common sense. Time to turn off the cruise control Paul and start being a mayor.
I’m sure you may have seen this video. There are many things difficult to understand here, but than I remember this happened in Mitchell, SD.
First off, if someone asks you to wear a mask, just do it. It’s not political, and no one is stealing your civil liberties. It is obvious this doofus showed up to the meeting to cause trouble because he wasn’t going to wear a mask.
But secondly, whether you agree with his stance or not, police CANNOT enforce a school ‘mandate’. A mandate is NOT law, it’s a firm suggestion. Not to mention, this occurred in a public building that this person owns. The officers did do something right, they didn’t arrest the fellar, because if they would have, he could have sued their butts off.
Besides the failings of this gentleman trying to prove how much he supports Trump or mask ignorance in general, and the blatant disregard of law by the police officers, remember, wearing masks is good (indoors) and don’t infringe on your civil rights, and if you are NOT breaking the law, you don’t have to listen to the police. There always seems to be this belief that you must let officers detain you because they are officers. But if they can’t tell you what law you are breaking, they can’t arrest you. Mr. Mitchell Doofus wasn’t breaking any laws, just the law of common sense. And if that is against the law, they need to arrest a lot of people.
Okay, for disclosure reasons their pool is a little bit smaller (not by much) and they were wise enough to attach it to another public facility (what a concept), a rec center;
MSH said construction costs are below the project’s total budget and construction is on schedule for a mid-June opening.
Under budget!? The only time we have heard that in Sioux Falls is when the mayor decided to put tin foil on the Denty. Not only are they paying a third what we are for the building, the operating costs are estimated at $400K a year (and the citizens freaked when that estimate jumped from $225K). Our operating costs are at $1.4 million a year with a $400K deficit.
So now we have Watertown and Mitchell for examples. Why are we paying double to 3x more for our public facilities in Sioux Falls than in these other smaller South Dakota cities and getting less? Somebody is getting rich from building public facilities in Sioux Falls, and it isn’t the taxpayer.
Geez, if this is all it takes . . .
“Since election, Mayor Toomey has exhibited GROSS INCOMPETENCE to fulfill the duties and obligation of the office of mayor and/or his display habitual intoxication or DRUNKENESS which deems him unfit for the office and subject to removal.â€
. . we could have recalled our mayor on a whole host of things, but mostly the lying, the lying and the lying.