Well, I guess you can’t fool the planning commission twice. After they approved an office rezone for a supposed parking lot last Fall, the property owner wanted to take another stab at it with another lot (Last item on agenda).

The Planning Commission didn’t buy it and 4 neighbors in opposition told the commission they must deny the application because of what is laid out in Shape Places and residential.

I did get a good laugh that the property owner chickened out and sent his son ‘Luke’ to do his dirty work (probably didn’t want to get questioned about his lies). Sorry Darth, the young Skywalker failed.

It was obvious to all those watching that they want to rezone all the parcels so they can sell it as a package deal for office expansion of the new owners.

The commission said, since you are the current owner and don’t have a plan, we are denying the rezone. Now back to the Death Star.

Lalley has been digging around on a whole host of city stuff lately, would love to share, but it’s a process, and more to come in the following weeks. I don’t think Paul is too happy with Patrick these days.

This is probably one of the best council ads I have seen in a long time. Funny and poignant.

UPDATE: It may be this candidate’s employer that got their hands slapped for mistakes and NOT the employee themself. Either or, they were terminated, but NOT for corruption or fraud. It still wasn’t good though 🙁

But I have heard so many different versions to the story it’s like trying to figure out which district Selberg is living in.

ORGINAL POST

Over the past couple of months I have been watching the city council races. One candidate seems to bug a lot of people and I have had dozens of people tell me this person was fired from their last job, but nobody would tell me why.

I always had the same answer, “Lots of people get fired for lots of reasons. I’ve been fired before, sometimes I screwed up, sometimes management sucked, etc. This is NO reason to disqualify someone to run for city council.”

So I pretty much put it to bed. If I don’t know why this person was terminated, and NO ONE wants to tell me, there is not much else to say.

Until today.

A person tells me the same thing I have already heard a dozen times, they were fired. So I asked, like I normally do, WHY? They spilled.

Now, this candidate has never told anyone they were terminated or why, but they made this announcement on FB last year about starting a NEW job in the same field;

Usually when you leave a job and you have a cell phone connected to that, you would probably lose your work phone, but if you were fired and it was for very bad stuff, they would certainly take your phone.

I have fed this enlightenment to some journalists in town that are working the details. But I will say, the termination was NOT because of a disagreement or policy dispute, the best way I can describe it without dipping to much into finer details was it was because of corruption and likely is still being investigated.

Hopefully we will see something in the Sioux Falls MSM in the coming days, hopefully before the election, because this person is not only unqualified to serve, if they were alledgedley fired for these reasons, they may have a ‘record’ that doesn’t allow them to serve. (I’m not talking about Bobbie either 🙁

The smart thing to do would be to drop out before the election.

*As for all the council candidates wondering if it is them, trust me, this person knows who I am talking about, and none of the other candidates could hold a candle to these kind of shenanigans.

Also, it’s NOT Jordan Deffenbaugh, he’s only guilty of rocking a cool haircut 🙂

Stuart? Or is it Wade? So not only does this school board candidate fail to vote in the district he wants to serve, he struggles with his name.

Reminds me of Marion Mike Rounds going by Mike. What is there to hide?

And is Wade a bad name? Maybe it isn’t right-winger enough? Who knows?

But if a candidate can’t be honest about their voting record or their name, do you want them to serve you?