Give me your thoughts on this latest Vernon Brown postcard . . .
I will give you my quick thoughts; I do not respect any politician that uses their children as political props, in fact, I consider it desperate. I will give props to Costello, Peterson and Staggers for not dragging their kids into this. Sure, they mention them, but don’t use them in marketing materials. That is a good thing. Your resume should speak for itself.
While I still think it is gigantic pile of dog doo-doo that we are subsidizing the Feds by paying to raise the levees, I think this letter writer is incredibly misguided;
Brown knew the costs to raise the levees would need to be paid through the selling of revenue bonds.
First off, no that is not the best way to pay for the levees. The Feds regulate the levees (FEMA) and the levees (should) be maintained by the Feds (The Corp of Engineers) they are ultimately responsible for the cost, not the taxpayers of Sioux Falls. As councilor Litz said to me in an email, the Feds kind of had them between a rock and a hard place on this one.
The only “no” vote against the bonds was cast by City Council Member Pat Costello.
And, correct me if I am wrong, but I think all eight councilors voted for the bond? They really had no choice. I know that the Gargoyle Leader’s staff probably doesn’t have the time to FACT check every letter, but this one is questionable. Of course this is the same newspaper that just lets it’s editors print whatever campaign financial numbers they want to pull out of the sky.
This was something Vernon mentioned in his Gargoyle Leader interview today, when talking about being publicly critical. I like FDR’s saying a lot better, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.”
Of course, if Vernon was talking about the below image, I’m all for him being Mayor.
I got this masterpiece in the mail today, as a person that has worked in advertising and direct mail, I don’t even know where to begin.
First off, it is obvious there wasn’t much planning done before mailing this out. Notice the smear at the top, red ink, if not dry, smears easily especially on gloss cover stock. This mailing was probably sent out right after the piece was printed. The text under his 3 p’s is way to small. He also seems to be taking credit for what ALL of the council did together. Also notice on the perforated tear off part, it is not a BRE, so you have to donate postage to Vernon’s campaign in order to send him his concerns. He should have made this postage paid and he would get a bigger response, I’ll be surprised if he gets any.
Like I said above, little planning went into this mailer, notice the barcode sprayed across it. There should have been a wider margin to accomodate for the barcode, looks very sloppy.
I will be doing a series on South DaCola of ‘who not to vote for’ before I do my endorsements. Vernon gets the first spot.
As Greggo ‘Council Seat handed to him on Silver Platter’ Jamison told a friend the other day, ‘Stop being negative.’ Well Greggo, honesty is not negative, not telling the truth to citizens is very negative. Makes a city councilor like yourself long for a washer and dryer in every bedroom, oh that’s right, you already have that, and you can scramble eggs on your heated garage floor. And Vernon has not been honest with the public. While running against Stehly in the last election he told voters he planned to finish his full term as councilor and had no intentions to run for mayor ‘at that time.’ He also voted against a tax increase then changed his mind down the road and voted for that same tax increase. You know, the one that was ‘supposed’ to be a 50/50 agreement with the developers, but since that increase tax payers have put in over 16x more then the developers. You are either for or against tax increases, you can’t just flip-flop on an issue like that. Makes you wonder what other things he will flip-flop on as mayor.
Why is Mr. Butterflies not qualified besides the lack of honesty and reliability? Well, because he has zero experience to be mayor. ZERO! He was a reporter and a marketing person. Big deal. That means I am qualified to be mayor. While I will give credit to Vernon for his advocacy for the homeless and monkey crappers (he claims bilking the taxpayers to save the zoo as one of his ‘accomplishments’), it does not qualify him to be mayor, if anything, it qualifies him to be a city councilor at best . . . oh . . . wait . . . he already is. Keep being a city councilor Vernon, and some day you may get your former co-worker’s job as Chief of Staff.
Vernon is clearly not ready to be mayor.