South DaCola

Editorial Cartoonist from South Dakota

2009

Heidepriem Rounds

We have nine state airplanes because?

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Casino boss buddies Heidepreim and Abdallah are finally offering some sensible legislation;

“With the budget crunch and economy, why do we need (nine)?” he asked. “If everybody has to tighten their belt, we should get rid of our air force.”

The state owns nine planes and one helicopter.

But as usual a state bureaucrat comes to the State’s (Rounds) defense.

Larry Nelson, state Aeronautics Commission chairman from Rapid City, disagreed with the senators’ proposal, saying various departments pay to use DOT planes.

“We have good planes now in the fleet. We have good, safe planes,” Nelson said. “The department is self-sufficient.”

How is a airplane fleet self-sufficient? Does it run on the bullshit coming from your mouth?

Joe Kafka, press secretary for Gov. Mike Rounds, declined to comment Wednesday night.

Surprise! Surprise!

Sioux Falls

Mike ‘IN DENIAL’ Cooper defends the red tape

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Looks like another Sioux Falls citizen is receiving some fine customer service from the city

Gotta love Mike Cooper. He still defends that the code enforcement ship is running in tip-top shape. Don’t believe me? Just ask Mike himself.

“I didn’t want the flow chart to be perceived as an indicator that every violation involves this maze of steps,” Cooper said in an e-mail sent after we talked.

He calls the flow chart “somewhat misleading. … I think the flow chart almost makes it look more confusing. I would say it’s somewhat misleading for anybody looking at this chart. They would say this is a broken process that needs a lot of fixing.”

Funny, on the heels of a hearing tommorrow about code enforcement and due process (which is estimated to cost taxpayer’s over $100,000 in lawyer fees fighting a couple of feet of concrete and a $100 citation that does not exist on the books), Mr. Cooper still thinks everything is fine and dandy.

The customer – the city taxpayer – already is well-served by those who work for Sioux Falls government, Cooper says.

“We have a very coordinated process, as I said to the council,” he says.

Don’t you mean ‘bureauracratic process’ Mike?

SF City Council Sioux Falls

Mike Cooper’s Hissy-Fit

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Follow this diagram or suffer the consequences of Sioux Falls code enforcement.

Mike Cooper from the City of SF responds to the code enforcement audit: audit-response

Highlights of his rant;

1. Audit was overstepping and not within city ordinance (how dare we expect our audit committee do their job and be critical of the GREAT Mike Cooper)

2. Opposes a citizen review committee of code enforcement (because golly - he has other protections in place to ensure everything is running in tip-top shape)

3. Complains the flowchart in the audit report has the appearance that code enforcement is ‘overly bureaucratic’ (Hey, Mikey, because it is!!!!!)

4. And finally he defends the fact that the process is NOT bureaucratic and tedious, than says the final audit report should be struck of any recommendations that would make code enforcement less bureaucratic and tedious, by telling them they need to follow bureaucratic ordinances (I think I had a heart murmur in the middle of typing that sentence.)

Enjoy – it’s red tape and bureaucratic pissing matches at its best!

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