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When major businesses sell, lots of Dominoes fall

l3wis December 30, 2025 3Comments

Sometimes the best place to look is under your nose;

So someone tipped me off that the sudden change in the board at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery had to do with the forced sale of Gage Brothers to a competitor in Minnesota. Read the comments from the above post. WOW!

Complicated. I encourage everyone to read all the posts from the beginning (if you FF thru the deer pics and remodeling projects 🙂 there is some juicy stuff in there, like this;

Oct 27

I’m posting this morning about my conversation today with Kayla Kleman in the department of consumer affairs in the attorney general’s office.

Her response was that all complaints were forwarded to the new board for response to all of your complaints.

My previous letter of August 29th states that she sent the complaint to the previous board and they did not respond in 20 days. She would not send me anything in writing. Please contact Marty Jackley and ask why this problem is being pushed off on the new board!Call 1 800 300 1986. Remember he said he would help if enough people were involved. NO HELP SO FAR!

Funny how Marty gets in front of the camera a lot these days trying to track down cartoon porn, drug dealing prison guards and extensive fraud throughout state government, but when there is obvious tax fraud, malfeasance, and disappearing funds the AG office goes radio silence to protect certain folks. Reminds me of Marty covering up the sexual harassment scandal at DCI and claiming Pat and Gant did nothing wrong in the SOS office because they didn’t steal money from the petty cash draw (just historic flags and intellectual data, no biggie) all the while our current mayor was playing server musical chairs with Dakotawusscollege.

I guess if I was the NEW board of Mt. Pleasant, I wouldn’t want Marty’s help, I would go straight to the Feds. If you think you are going to get any help from Pierre you would probably have better luck finding the LOSER that stole your Christmas Wreath.

I would see if you can get a retired attorney to help you navigate this fiasco and sue the former board and get your money back.

This is a classic case of established rich folks in town taking regular folks to the cleaners and suffering no consequences. No surprise, this state is so corrupt I’m not surprised it hasn’t collapsed on itself.

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You are Welcome Jon Hansen

l3wis December 28, 2025 3Comments

I make a few bucks on my site from Google advertising. I have little control but I can add filters, but only add a few because I am a monster free speech advocate. As long as it is not online gambling or mail order brides I’m cool.

What I have noticed is my site is popular for political ads, 100% GOP. So this ad doesn’t surprise me. But honestly, Hansen’s communication folks should really stop advertising on a site that thinks your campaign is a total POS and your candidate is a clown. No lie.

Food for thot.

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The State of SD needs to eliminate GOED

l3wis December 23, 2025 6Comments

I don’t have a problem with the office, most states have a department like this. But our version of GOED has been corrupt for years. In fact, I got a GOED director fired during the Huether administration. I have never trusted anyone in that office;

Steve Westra was South Dakota’s commissioner of economic development four years ago when the office first agreed to provide financial assistance for a CJ Schwan’s company project.

After leaving state government, he’s now a vice president for the company, which has benefited from state grant and loan approvals totaling $69 million.

All the while, the chairman of the state board that approved some of the aid, Jeff Erickson, has also been a member of the CJ Schwan’s board of directors.

Have yah met Steve Westra? I had the pleasure(?) one time. Doesn’t surprise me that him and his sidekick are cashing in, I think I would have been surprised if he hadn’t.

But corruption aside, why is the state giving millions of my tax dollars to a processed food plant? Look around the next time you are out in public, do you think we need more processed foods? Or more $16 an hour jobs? No thanks. Just look at these stats from one of their products;

Well at least there is some Potassium in there 🙁

The one thing that has always bugged me about the GOED office is the ridiculous crap they will bring in with our tax dollars even though these companies planned to move here anyway, provide crappy wages and send all profits out of state. Why are they not attracting more sustainable businesses that pay living wages? Because that work is hard, and you don’t get reach arounds from those companies (golden parachutes).

Some elected officials in the state seem surprised by these revelations. I’m just trying to figure out why it took the media so long to expose it. As I heard recently on a TV show, “We are just monkeys riding a dog in a circus.”

Well, at least monkeys eat a lot of Potassium (nanners).

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Rhoden and Jackley apparently don’t know what the 1st Amendment is

l3wis December 9, 2025 2Comments

So Larry and Marty think they are cracking down on crime;

Governor Larry Rhoden is urging Attorney General Marty Jackley to investigate a new abortion ad campaign, appearing at gas stations across the state.

The ad campaign is being broadcast by Mayday Health, advertising abortion pills at 30 gas stations in 20 South Dakota cities.

Governor Rhoden specifically cites SDCL 22-17-5.1 and SDCL 36-4-8.

“All ad campaigns, no matter what the issue, need to follow state laws and fair trade practices,” said Jackley. “We will review these ads and determine if any laws have been broken. If laws have been broken, we will take appropriate action.”

The advertisement doesn’t perform abortions or dispense abortion pills it simply advertises a website where you can get help. They have a 1st Amendment right to advertise and the laws referenced above are about performing or assisting in abortions. Last time I checked a billboard can’t perform abortions.

While I know Rhoden is this stupid, I would think Jackley would know the US Constitution and Free Speech Rights. They could ask them to cease and desist, but they don’t have to comply. If they try to indict this organization it will be laughed out of court. They will likely get a stern letter from Jackboots and pull the ads. They have already served their purpose and by announcing this potential indictment you just gave them more press then they know what to do with. Idiots.

My bigger question is if the media will do a counter story about the 1st Amendment violations? You would think a news organization would be protecting their advertisers.

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Libertyland TIF should go to a vote of the entire state!

l3wis November 29, 2025 4Comments

While the petitioners did the right thing by putting this to a vote of the people of the affected area, the TIF should really be voted on by the entire state. Why?

So this is how TIFs work in SD; The developer’s property is valued at a new higher rate once the project is completed, this rate is used to fund city, school and county government, except that new valued tax revenue goes back to the developer for improvements (in other words he gets a tax refund to build his personal project). So while these values are up, the money isn’t coming in so the county and school district must make that revenue up by taking it from the state which is funded by sales taxes paid for by the entire public body of the state. So while there may be a TIF in Pennington County, Minnehaha County residents are funding this TIF thru sales taxes to make up for the lack of school and county funding. TIFs are not only BAD for the effected communities but they hurt every resident in this state! Some would argue we pay these taxes anyway, and you are correct, but instead of bailing out school districts and counties we could use the revenue to improve state infrastructure. What a f’ing concept!!!!!!

When major businesses sell, lots of Dominoes fall

You are Welcome Jon Hansen

The State of SD needs to eliminate GOED

Rhoden and Jackley apparently don’t know what the 1st Amendment is

Libertyland TIF should go to a vote of the entire state!

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