Poorly Placed Advertising (H/T – Helga)
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2011
Why would SD legislative representatives Wick and Steele allow corporations to write legislation?
(H/T – Helga)
Just a few of the corporations that are helping Wick & Steele write legislation for our state.
Did Manny Steele and Hal Wick enjoy New Orleans soul food while at the ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) annual meeting this past weekend? Enquiring minds would be interested to know if ALEC members Steele and Wick spent the weekend in New Orleans getting their marching orders from a long list of corporations. Corporations who write model legislation and then pass it on to legislators in all states to pass. ALEC drafts and promotes legislation that has crippled social service budgets, deregulated industries, slashed medical care for the poor and undermined consumer and worker protections in state after state. Big on their list is to close Planned Parenthood and remove the right of choice for women. This a full time job in SD for some legislators.
A state legislator pays only $50 a year to join ALEC. And corporate sponsors put up $5,000 to $50,000 — which gives legislators the privilege to write “model” laws that come from ALEC. ALEC is funded by a host of conservative corporations including the Koch brothers, Chevron, BP, Shell, Coors, Well Point, The Walton Family Foundation who work in secret to draw up bills that benefit specific business interests.
Steele and Wick have both held hunting events in SD for ALEC. Wick hosted an ALEC Pheasant Hunt fund attended by more than 20 SD state legislators along with out of state representatives that hunted and partied for 2 days at R & R Hunting in Seneca, SD. Not to be outdone Steele had a 2009 ALEC Hunting party also.
Enquiring minds would also like to know if Larry Diedrich, Duane Sutton, Bill Peterson, Jay Duenwald, Mike Jaspers, Ken Juhnke, Mike Buckingham, Phyllis Heineman, Tom Hansen, Kermit Staggers, Tom Hacki or Dennis Daugaard to name just a few, went on an all paid trip to New Orleans this past weekend.
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Billy Bob Janks still lives in fantasy land
This guy is like a bad joke that people keep telling;
“Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side before Bill drives by!”
Janklow, 72, was cited in late June and later paid a $59 fine and court costs, The Daily Republic reported. Janklow told The Associated Press today that he was trying to get to a hospital to say goodbye to a dying friend, and didn’t make it in time.
Let’s pretend for a moment that Janks was telling the truth 🙂 How much time could he really shave off by going 15 mph faster? 5-10 minutes? Ironically the time it probably took to write him a ticket. And as for his (imaginary) dying friend, would they appreciate Bill endangering his life and other people’s lives coming to say goodbye to someone who is dying? Sorry Bill, your shit doesn’t add up once again.
Just read this statement;
Janklow said he no longer considers himself a public figure.
Yet he was the first to march in front of TV cameras to complain about the Army CORPS. Kinda sounds like you are still in the public eye, Billy Bob.
Real Classy South Dakota
Okay, so the state department of revenue just chooses to ignore a state law for decades (instead of just telling the legislature to fix it) Then all of sudden decides they must enforce it? Then says if you want to skirt the law, you can go thru a complicated application process for something you may do a couple of times a year? Then, the kicker, since they can’t tax people who receive free food (from food banks and churches) they have to tax the food these orgs are giving away? WOW! Talk about having to pay extra for a undercooked shit sandwich;
About 275 organizations statewide that give away food to needy people might be forced to pay a long-unenforced sales tax, prompting some to worry the agencies simply will stop providing food to the poor.
At issue is a handling fee that agencies pay to the organization that supplies them with food.
A state law outlining the taxes has been on the books for decades. But it wasn’t until late last year that an audit discovered the maintenance fees existed and needed to be taxed, said Jan Talley, director of the state’s Business Tax Division.
“We are charged with enforcing the statutes of South Dakota,” she said.
Your charged with enforcing a law that you haven’t enforced for decades? So instead of just getting the powers of be to fix it, you have to be the assmunch instead and enforce it? Seriously?! Pierre is freaking broken, and this is further proof.
But the best part is the Argue Endorser’s online poll today;
I would like to meet these clowns that think it is okay to tax orgs that give food to the needy. I have a sandwich I would like to feed them. And it’s not made of turds.
Who doe$n’t love a good drag $how?
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I had to laugh, there isn’t anything the PAV won’t do to bring in money, including a drag show;
At 8 p.m. Aug. 19, there’s a drag show in the Warhol gallery, available for the regular price of admission to the gallery.
I think this is awesome. If you have never been to a good drag show (and I am not talking about those rinky-dink shows they used to put on a Touchez) they are non-stop entertainment, gutt-hurt (not butt-hurt) laughing entertainment. You would be amazed what duct tape can do. While I think the drag show idea is clever, I am concerned about the continuing trend of the Pavilion to be charging for so-so visual art exhibits;
“I think the people who are coming to Warhol know there’s a charge, and those who don’t still buy tickets,” Merhib said. “People are used to big cities where, in general, there’s a fee to see a show.”
Sorry David Money Bags. One of the selling points of the Pavilion to me was the FREE visual arts center. It’s hard enough exposing people to the arts, especially in this town, but to start charging for exhibits that really are not world class brings that elitist label a little bit closer to home. How many people do you think from lower income neighborhoods are willing to drop $10 on an exhibit they can see for free at the library in a book? What if it was free? I find this new trend at the VAC to be a bit disturbing. What has made the PAV unique is its FREE Visual Arts Center, but it seems now, everything is for sale, even men who lip-sync Whitney Houston songs.