I found this post by the Bleached Blonde Norwegian Thunderbolt interesting.
Reliable sources say the mayor and his economic czar have reached out to have Mike Knuth of Public Affairs Company (click on the link to learn more about the company)  to run the events center campaign. In addition, sources say the two have also gone to Sanford and Avera to put in $5k-$10k each to pay for it.
I often assumed Mike would use some kind of marketing talent to sell his POS Events Center plan, it would be smart of him to use private money, but is he really fooling anyone? Jen says it best;
It is interesting there is an effort to hire a consultant to run the event center campaign when there is no identifiable source of funding yet presented to the public.
Well, I can look at this two ways. On the logical side, Jen is right, the public hasn’t seen a funding source, so why would they even consider this? But to be the Devil’s advocate, it is the exact reason why Mikey is trying to sell it to the public before a funding source appears. Those of us who have been following this (and even some who haven’t) know this will cost us well over $200 million, not the $100 million Mike likes to talk about. I don’t think Mike is fooling anyone. There is one thing South Dakotans do best, they like to get by ‘On the cheap’ as much as possible and building an EC won’t be any different.
Come clean now Mike.