Or maybe Wall Drug billboards have made us all freaking crazy. After John Daiker and I exchanged some emails about our toons (more like me groveling for forgiveness). John posted this on Gargoyle’s site. I think this line says it best;
That said…I really must compliment Wall Drug on their advertising.
If anything, this situation proves that media saturation DOES WORK.
They prove us all wrong. Now they are in a pissing match about ‘Letterhead’. Yup, you heard right, they are griping about the use of a piece of paper;
Four commissioners complained to Chairman John Pekas he should not have used commission letterhead to write to Circuit Court Judge Bradley Zell. Commissioners say the letter undercut their own request to Zell that Gourley receive a prison term when he sentences her Monday.
Yeah, John! What do you think? That you are county commissioner or something? Wait?
Commissioner Anne Hajek noted that she and Pekas are lawyers, and she is a member of the state bar association ethics committee. It’s that committee’s position, she said, “when you use letterhead, you’re speaking for the whole organization.”
But Anne, this isn’t the SD Bar Association, it is the chickenshit county commission. You know, there is a difference. One is a club the other is an elected position. There is a HUGE difference. Though I don’t think much of Pekas, I do back him on this one. As a county commissioner he has the right to use CC letterhead, get over it.
Pekas told fellow commissioners Tuesday that while Gourley has pleaded guilty to embezzlement, an investigation is ongoing and more information about the case might be forthcoming. He reiterated that under those conditions he would not presume to tell the judge he should sentence Gourley to prison.
I am kind of on the fence about this. On one hand, she is a crook, and should sit in a cell, but on the other hand, as John points out, there is probably more people involved, how couldn’t there be? Secondly instead Gourley costing us more money by putting her in jail, I suggest 10 years of house arrest with work release. And I suggest that we garnish 75% of her wages until she has paid us back. Let the family that enabled her to commit this crime by pretending they didn’t know where the money was coming from figure out how she is going to eat.
Nobel Prize winning economist, Paul Krugman was on the Colbert Report tonight, he had this to say (paraphrasing);
“I think the Obama administration understands how bad the economy is, they are smart people, they just are not forceful enough to fix it. I mean, they aren’t crazy or stupid like the previous administration.”
I guess I am not sure which was more? Crazy or stupid.
Count on City Councilor Kermit Staggers to be a possible mayoral candidate.
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The central district representative says he’ll most likely run in the 2010 race.
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“Over the past several summers I have gone door-to-door talking to people about the city,” Staggers said.
“There is a good chance we will” run for the office, he told me Friday.
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As for a timetable on a final decision?
“We won’t have to hurry,” Staggers said.
Exactly. You can’t even collect signatures until after January 1, 2010. Settle down Dave.
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