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.