2008
l3wis 
Citizens for Reponsible Sales Tax
County Commission
De Knudson
Munson
SF City Council
Sioux Falls
Taxes
We can’t cut taxes because we won’t be able to help the homeless?!
Now Councilor Knudson is claiming if we drop the 2nd penny tax back down to 1.9 we won’t be able to help the homeless.
(Click on Council/County Joint meeting, November 17 – Starts at 44:00 MIN)
You can also watch Munson do the Mexican hat dance with Commissioner Hajek about funding (50:00 MIN). Which is ironic, considering the county isn’t offering any figures.
First off, De, you told us we had to raise this tax to build NEW ROADS! That’s it! Not for homeless shelters, so cut the crap. As for the homeless shelter, I am 100% for it. I agree with Hajek, that this is an investment in safety and savings to the taxpayers in chronic homeless costs. The longer we dick around with finding a location and funding, the more taxpayers are losing. In fact Councilor Anderson and had a great discussion about it. I told him, and he agreed the best place for it would be next to the Law Enforcement center. Budget the money, stop the pissing matches with the county commission, lock yourselves in a room and negotiate a funding and location solution.
As for where the money should come from? Cut the parks budget to make it happen.
See how simple these things are when you use common sense.
Rounds Turns it up a notch
All of sudden, Mikey becomes Mr. Glass half empty;
PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Mike Rounds says next year will bring the “worst budget scenario that we have seen,” and he doubts there will be much of an increase in state funding of schools.
But Bill Thompson is ready to set him straight,
Democratic state Rep. Bill Thompson of Sioux Falls, who is on the House education committee, said education is an investment.
“In the House, there are too many people who see education as an expense, and that’s the basic philosophical difference,” he said.
It would make no sense for Rounds to cut education even if the budget is tight, according to Thompson, a retired teacher.
“My question to the governor would be, ‘Is education your No. 1 priority?’ It should be, in terms of economic development and in terms of how much of the state budget that goes toward education,” he said. “Education is not frosting; it’s absolutely crucial and should be the last area for where we look in terms of cuts.”
I’m gonna say it, it is time for the minority Democrats to grow a sack and go after this Governor like pitbulls, without lipstick. Bill has a good start, and he is respected enough to take the bull by the horns.
Pastor DooHickey seems to think I’m doing cartoons about him? Don’t flatter yourself.
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The Resemblance is Striking
Local cartoonist Scott Ehrisman decided to feature me again today in a post titled Pastor Denial. At one point a few months ago some were suggesting he was infatuated with me – that kept him quiet for a couple months. I’m definately an enigma to him and his cartoon here reveals his confusion.
But it gets better, Mr. wipe his butt with the 1st and 14th Amendment calls himself a constitutionalist; I split my side reading that.
Ehrisman is all over the map on this one – I’m one who holds the Constitution in the highest regard – he’s the h8r, not me. But, whatever.Â
I also enjoyed this comment, now he needs to judge people on the music they listen to and the band shirts they wear.
What do we expect from one whose favorite band has an CD called incesticide and he’s proud to have a t-shirt of the CD cover.
Steve, I’m no Kurt Cobain scholar, but I am assuming the word incesticide, something I’m sure Kurt made up, is a ANTI-INCEST statement. Just a wild guess. But I forgot, your type thinks it is okay for young girls to be subjected to having their sick rapist relative’s babies. Because hey, nothing like being forced to have the child of your uncle who raped you, because it is morrally the right thing to do.
I also enjoyed the comments of his Jim Jones like followers about me, very Christian like.
“ehrisman is just a bitter, lousy artist with nothing better to do.”
“I googled his name and NOTHING popped up, notta, zippo, zero. The guys an idiot, he’s got the talking points down, and he probably didn’t come up with that on his own either. Not to mention he’s got your hair parted down the wrong side and he calls himself an artist.”
“South DaCola is proof that the computer labs at middle schools are open extended hours.”
The collar and image is merely a form of symbolism, sorry you can’t see it, and sorry the pastor sybolism I used just happened to look like every other wacko-wannabe evangelist in this country.
Shouldn’t you be setting up shop in some small African country?
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