March 2009

Should there be a ceremony if he vetoes it?

The Gargoyle Leader‘s Editorial board supports a smoking ban, of course they do, they wouldn’t want there subscriptions to slide anymore;

As a matter of fact, Rounds should make a big deal of the signing. Have a ceremony. Use one of those special pens. Gather a crowd.

I still think he will not sign it. No special pens just a big fat ugly F’U citizens of South Dakota Stamp.

It’s been a long, hard fight to protect the health of all of the state’s workers.

Wow! The AL actually gets it right – this has always been about workers not business owners, another reason why Rounds will take a gigantic crap on it.

One more reason why I think the smoking ban should have applied to ALL bars

There is already debate about the cigar bar exemption;

A smoking ban backer says restaurants, pubs or casinos thinking of becoming cigar bars to get around the ban – if it’s enacted – won’t be able to do it.

As it passed the state Senate earlier this week, the ban would exempt existing cigar bars making at least 10 percent of their gross revenue from cigar sales. That applies to just two businesses in the entire state: Stogeez Cigar Lounge in Sioux Falls and the Deadwood Tobacco Co. and Cigar Bar.

Yeah, I bet 10% of Stogeez gross revenue comes from cigars – whatever. Who is cooking the books there? I hear Matt Adamski’s accountant is looking for a job. This is what Kant says in the AL;

Stogeez owner Tim Kant said 14 percent to 16 percent of his business is cigar sales, or about 10,000 cigars sold a year.

Why jeopardize good legislation by exempting a whopping TWO businesses in the entire state? Because, once again, If Tim Kant wants it, lawmakers cave.

Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Big time Sioux Falls developer and councilor campaign contributor and fundraiser, Craig Lloyd, just had his wife Pat appointed to the Parks and Rec board;

Park and Recreation Board Members

  • Anne Hajek – Term Expires – May 2009
  • Steve Thomas – Term Expires – May 2009
  • Michelle Harvey-Erpenbach – Term Expires – May 2010
  • Kevin Nyberg – Term Expires – May 2010
  • Sandra Pay – Term Expires – May 2010
  • Michael Crane – Term Expires – May 2011
  • Pat Lloyd – Term Expires – May 2012

Not sure if you remember Craig, who owns Lloyd Companies, but he was the main developer who spearheaded the 2nd penny tax increase to a full penny so he could have taxpayers pay for new roads in his developments. He had this to say at the time in the Argus Leader about it all;

Lloyd said he’s tired of the implication that he and other supporters of the package were up against “the citizens of Sioux Falls.” “Last time I checked, I’m a citizen,” he said. “I pay taxes. I support the community. Am I a second-rate citizen?”

Gee, wonder if Pat’s appointment was bought and paid for? These guys have no shame? Huh? Second-rate citizen my ass! Kinda sounds like you are in front of the line.

FREE to screw working class and poor people over, that’s about it

This study is laughable. Though I don’t disagree with there findings, I find it ironic what they consider ‘FREE’.

South Dakota received a top ranking in economic freedom and scored second in fiscal freedom.

Yeah, the rich are economically FREE from paying their fare share of taxes.

But the study criticized the state’s high sales taxes and higher-than-expected transportation spending for a state with such a low population density.

The sales taxes are not high, they lack equality. We shouldn’t be paying retail taxes on food and the retail tax rate should be equal on every item, big or small. As for transportation, boy, if that isn’t glaring. We are a state of 700,000 that has 9 state owned airplanes – go figure.

Personal freedom dropped South Dakota into the middle of the pack at 24th.

WooHoo! We weren’t dead last for once! Even though that rank probably would drop to 50 in Sioux Falls, where code enforcement spies on it’s residents 24/7 and drug dogs wait outside bars for you.

Moderate, centrist governments offer their residents the most freedoms, according to the study.

And the wingnuts wonder why Obama is so popular – go figure.

Rounds ratcheting up the rhetoric to get people ready for his veto

He won’t say whether or not he will sign it, but . . .

Rounds says that if the measure reaches his desk, he’ll make sure it is written correctly before deciding whether to sign it.  He said smoking isn’t a healthy activity, but lawmakers must balance private property rights and public health considerations.

Better to get ready to eat your hat Angry Guy, looks like a veto to me.