Once again the AL ED Board says too little too late when weighing in on the city budget;
Given that, it’s disappointing that the Sioux Falls City Council has approved a resolution that supports a 2010 general fund budget that’s based on questionable economic expectations.
Well, great-almighty and all-knowing editorial board, this budget has been around for weeks, it would have been nice to say something about it before the council voted on it. Of course, then you couldn’t come back and rip on the councilors for doing nothing, could you? Take for instance this stab at Kermit while seeming to compliment him;
Councilman Kermit Staggers says he’s worried about the message that city officials are sending residents with the budget. Staggers has established an unfortunate record of resisting most progressive ideas, but at least this time he’s right.
What freaking planet have you been living on? If anything, Kermit is one of the most progressive (citizen wise) councilors we have. But not according to the dear old AL who have had a hardon over Kermit for years. According to dictionary.com this is the definition of a progressive;
–adjective
1. favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, esp. in political matters
In the years I have known Kermit he has advocated change more then any city official. He has been an advocate of more open government, he has asked the city reigns in spending by getting more competitive bids on projects, he has asked the city to responsible for their own property such as trees and sidewalks which would save taxpayers millions, he has asked the city to suspend some construction regulations while older neighborhoods be rebuilt so the projects get done faster and more economically. Kind of sounds like a progressive to me. In the AL’s ED Board eyes a progressive politician is someone who borrows money that has to be paid back with interest to buy monkey crappers and build roads for developers on the edge of Tea, SD. Sorry, spending taxpayer money recklessly to benefit the HAVES and special interests doesn’t make you a progressive, it makes you a big-government greedy Republican.
And Councilman Greg Jamison – saying that city employees should “fix the problem later if it becomes a problem” – definitely did residents no favors by abdicating his responsibility in holding the mayor’s budget accountable ahead of time.
Is Greg Jamison a progressive in your eyes? I could have sworn you have praised Greggo in the past for having ‘progressive’ ideas. Doing nothing but maintaining the status quo doesn’t make you a progressive. Progressives are people who encourage change and moving forward, changes and progress that affect all the citizens of a community. Kermit has done nothing but that.
Grow a f@#$ing brain already!