If you are government nerd like me, I enjoy watching these hearings. This is the depo of Jack Smith the other day explaining just how damn guilty Sally is. Should be recommended viewing in HS civics classes across the the country and law schools and they should be required to right an essay about it. Now that’s some DEI Liberal Transgender ideology.
Before I get into a half story about a strange dynamic going on right now in city government that involves rich powerful people and money grubby politicos let’s talk about what we want to see next year.
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and hopefully next year at this exact time I will be blogging about how our new mayor transformed government access and integrity within the halls of city hall. Our city council is actually writing policy that benefits citizens over businesses, the Dems sweep the House and Senate and eliminate the filibuster to overturn most of Republiscum’s horrific policies. The irony is this will be a cakewalk for Dems if they win. Why? Because the dipsh!t GOP hasn’t passed any legislation only waiting on Trump to do EO’s which can be overturned by the Congress pretty quickly by codifying it.
I will also celebrate my 19th Anniversary of DaCola on June 24th. My intention has always been to try to make it to 20 years before my blogging career (at least in politics) ends. In retirement I plan to do a video blog about my travels. There have been almost 15,000 posts on DaCola since it’s inception.
MONEY IN SIOUX FALLS MAKES STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
While most people would think we are divided by the Left/Right in this community when it comes to politics, that couldn’t be further from reality.
MONEY. That’s what divides this town. If you have moolah, it doesn’t matter if you are Repug or Demorat, as long as you have the greenbacks. It’s the Rich Party vs. the Poor Party. And while there is more of us in the Poor Party, the Rich Party has more buying power.
There’s an interesting dynamic going on right now behind the scenes that involves a mayoral candidate a possible gubernatorial candidate and a little rich weasel in our community playing defense and offense, all with different political affiliations. I would love to tell you what I know so far, because this stuff is as juicy as it gets, but I want this to ferment a little longer before I serve that glass of whine.
For the record nothing ILLEGAL is going on here, that I can see, I wouldn’t even classify it as corrupt or unethical, it is just typical money politics in Sioux Falls with the same cast of characters trying to play games with the Clems to get what they want. I hope they ALL F’ING LOSE at the ballot box 🙂 We can only hope. I know I ain’t voting for either of them.
And the unethical behavior continues!
A committee with representation from community members, city council and city administrators looked through the applications and chose which organizations best fit into those three categories and served the needs of Sioux Falls.Â
City councilor Miranda Bayse was originally on the committee, however, a conflict of interest with one of the nonprofits caused her to step away from the reviewing and voting on the organizations. She still offered insight to KELOLAND News about the new process.
Bayse said the proposals exceeded the budget, so committee members had to be selective about which nonprofits received funding from the city.
“The coliseum and what happens in that space is very important,” Bayse said in an interview with KELOLAND News Tuesday. “I don’t know the answer, but if funding isn’t feasible in the budget, are there other ways as a community to support and encourage the things that happen in that space?”
Bayse also acknowledged the timeline to submit and review proposals was tight, which could have played a role in why some organizations received funding while others did not.
Isn’t it interesting how she knows so much about the review process yet she claims she stepped away from it. She was likely in on the meetings, and even if she didn’t vote she can influence other members. It’s pretty simple, if you have a conflict, your recuse yourself before the process even begins. You also tell the public what that conflict is and you certainly can’t vote or influence other councilors. Three strikes against Lucy.
It almost seems like they are proud of what they can get away with. After the city election in June if crap doesn’t shape up I am going to file ethics complaints against the mayor, city councilors and city employees. It’s time they learn what it means to be ethical because this type of blazen behavior erodes public trust immensely.
Vera was a character on Living Color played by legendary Jim Carrey. The character was a female body builder who took horse steroids. In order to puff up her lips she would use a curling iron.
Over the next month kids at area elementary schools will compete in ‘Booger Battle’. The inaugural event will judge students boogers on categories: size, color, shape, and smell.
A local superintendent said, “They do this all over the country, especially in Red States and the results have been varying.”
They expect the competition to generate an estimated $0 in economic impact.
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