A South DaCola foot soldier just sent me a picture of Dean’s campaign signs. He is misleading voters (he must be using the same consultants the BIN people used). Remember the last city council race Dean was in, he lost against Bob Litz. Dean was APPOINTED to the city council, the voters did not elect him.
The first financials have been released today, Dean’s donor list reads like a listing of prominent bankers and developers in town.
Some explanations: Barb Stork is the wife of Citi’s CEO in SF. Evan Nolte is the head of the SF Chamber of Commerce. And you will notice at the top, Jim Schmidt sits on the Lincoln County Commission.
UPDATE
Compare Karsky’s fundraising with every other candidate to date and I think this makes him look bad. It looks to some like payback for his EC site vote last June. If you dig a little deeper through the city web site archives, and you’ll find Karsky collected his first campaign contribution right after Thanksgiving from the Home Builder’s Association (which publicly endorsed the EC at the Arena and whose 2011 President, Alan Amdahl was also a campaign chair for Build It Now): http://www.siouxfalls.org/~/media/documents/Election/2010/year_end_reports/Karsky_123011.ashx.
I’m think Karsky sold his EC vote last April in exchange for selection to the council and now he may be getting payback for delivering on his end of the deal.
I would say AT LEAST half of these people would have given their money to Millage. These people are giving Karsky money because their alternative would be Ysbrand and he hasn’t spent half as much time as Karsky trying to be/feel important. I wonder how much $$ people around the arena are donating to Karsky’s campaign since they voted against the EC and Karsky himself never once had a public meeting in that area until AFTER the vote?
Re-elect? Bwahahaha! How do these people sleep at night? Their lives are filled with half-truths at best almost every day. Get some damn integrity and run on your merits instead of running around like a brownie hound that just wants to be “somebody” in this town. Better yet, Karsky, why don’t you start at least acknowledging people when they send you an email? Isn’t that part of public service?
I can verify the signs do in fact say “Re-Elect”. I’ve seen them personally.
Oh, I believe you Craig.
Brownie Hound – LMAO!
Maybe there should be a rule that you can only donate to candidates if you live in their district.
With this Supreme Court? Heck – you don’t even have to be an actual living person – let alone reside in someone’s district.
scott – I partially agree.
ruf – no kidding, huh?
So when was he elected? Wasn’t he selected? To be up for “re-election” a person should have elected in the first place.
Karsky, the salesman, was brought onto the council to sell the mayor’s program.
When you lack integrity – you’ll sell your soul. It’s too bad – I wouldn’t have pegged Dean this way – but a Brownie Hound will do these types of things to add to their manhood.
L3wis:
“he must be using the same consultants the BID people used”
BID as in Build It Downtown? If so, WTF are you talking about?
I asked someone if this is a violation of campaign rules. And they said it is a very ‘grey’ area, because Dean could say he wasn’t ‘appointed’ but ‘elected’ by the city council.
Must fix Dave, I meant BIN
Ahh…glad to see even the pros have a typo now and again.
As for DK, my guess is he isn’t using a consultant per se as anyone worth a shit would’ve told him not to stretch the truth like that.
But he is just huckster / salesman just selling himself whatever way he can and will
If you follow Councilor Karsky’s voting record, you will see that he does very little to represent some of the poorest neighborhoods in our city…..which are part of his NW District.
I’ve always said he answers to Evan Nolte and the Chamber, not his constituents. This certainly seems to be reflected in his finance report!
Very good observation cr – hence my comment on donations from his district which I am sure there are few. Someone should tip off Ysbrand to go door to door in some of those neighborhoods and make a race out of this bad boy.
Alice – Not a fan of Ysbrand, BUT, I will say, he is much more in touch with his neighborhood then Dean is.