It is being held at Morningside Community Center. I have been told the meeting is going to get ‘interesting’. I think some citizens from the Spellerberg neighborhood will be attending . . .
UPDATE: I guess the Parks board approved going forward with the indoor pool at Spellerberg today at the meeting. I guess about 6 proponents showed up to the meeting and about 14 opponents showed up.
Don’t get me wrong, that is what the fund is for, (Item #33) in fact, I think the entertainment tax should be raised to pay off the bonds for the EC. It didn’t surprise me that the mayor wasted no time tapping the entertainment tax for Denny’s Grand Slam Premier Center before we have even broke ground.
Get ready good folks of Sioux Falls, you are going to see this mayor try to pull funds out of every cookie jar he can find in city hall to build this place. He’ll probably even try to take bottle caps and box tops from the employee break room.
To bad the kiddies had to go back to school 🙂
Mama Mia our intrepid SOS Gant is busy guy. When does he have time to actually be a Secretary of State? The guy is like a big bowl of spaghetti with him the big meatball. How many Political Action Committees does one candidate need,Ă‚Â to funnel money into his own campaign and a few special friends? As we discussed yesterday, Dusty Johnson appears to have only his campaign committee but Jason has had so many. It can be confusing. Jason, has it been your intention to keep everyone from knowing what you were up to all along?
A Note from our search committee: Everyone should understand a few details when you are curious about who is who, in South Dakota money games. The SOS website is a fountain of information if you really want to find something. It was poorly built from the beginning to confuse. With the assistance of his past web guru PP, it is still a mess, but of a different order. It appears to have been intentionally setup to keep the loose ends from ever coming together. SD campaign finance and reporting laws appear to be almost nonexistent and also what there is, are easily manipulated.
But back to our story… Let’s see,Ă‚Â since 2004 Jason has had his original Gant for Senate campaign. Then to funnel more money,Ă‚Â he set up the SD Senate Republican Campaign CommitteeĂ‚Â to help out of state ALEC donors. Now weĂ‚Â find theĂ‚Â duringĂ‚Â first monthĂ‚Â in the SOSoffice in 2011, he setup the Committed to Victory PAC to receive money from organizations likeĂ‚Â ES&S (Vote tabulation machine company) and a Pierre based SOS / GOP website developer operator, BPRO, Inc. (scroll down to State/City/government)
ENTIRE DOCUMENTS OF GANT’S VARIOUS COMMITTEES;Ă‚Â GANT-Committees
Another interestingĂ‚Â part of thisĂ‚Â we are looking into,Ă‚Â are the ways money flows back and forth between certain campaigns. Ă‚Â What are they doing? The links between Gant’s PAC activity and so muchĂ‚Â more is taking us deeper into the Spaghetti Monster’s kitchen.
Stay tuned, this is just the tip of the iceberg ….
OTHER GOODIES,Ă‚Â Here is a proposal BPRO prepared for the state.
We told you about some in-depth digging into the financial reports of legislative and constitutional candidates. This is getting very interesting. The GOP is having a bit of a cat fight right now labeling each group as more or less Republican than the other. And more questions are arising about how Gant is running his office;
Possibly more serious than the attacks is an effort under way to file a lawsuit to kick Gosch off the ballot.
The lawsuit threat stems from Gosch’s nominating petitions to get on the ballot. He notarized one of his own petitions, which isn’t supposed to happen.
“I’m not an attorney, but I said, it sure looks like a violation to me,” said Ed Randazzo, a Rapid City activist who is helping to raise $2,500 to pay for a lawsuit.
Gosch was unavailable for comment, but asked his fellow lawmaker, Rep. Mike Verchio, R-Hill City, to speak for him.
“He’s confident, since the secretary of state (Jason Gant) already says there’s not a problem,” Verchio said.
If you are so confident, why the possible lawsuit?
We are still looking into why each is going after the other, but in this search, we find some other things involving our intrepid SOS Mr. Gant. Why is Mr. Gant mixed up in so many of these strange connections?Ă‚Â Who are these people financing him?Ă‚Â What does Jason have to do for them or what is he promising to the groups giving him the money?
THE FULL DOCUMENT:Ă‚Â gant 2010 campiaign finance disclosure oct 22 – 11660
We are also looking into the money received by several other candidates elected at the same time as Mr. Gant.Ă‚Â Let’s look at Dusty Johnson’s run for the PUC.Ă‚Â This is an office you could assume would be useful to out of state lobbyists and corporations, it has in the past why not now?Ă‚Â So we looked… Ă‚Â And looked.Ă‚Â Interesting thing, Dusty has raised a lot of money for his PUC runs, but the money he has received are primarily from the usual in-state GOP citizens we get used to seeing in state finance reports. Small in-state PACs
SEE FULL DOCUMENT:Ă‚Â Johnson, Dusty campaign Finance report Oct 22, 2010 11745
Jason Gant like Marty Jackley like Chris Nelson like several state GOP legislators are getting massive funds from out of state ALEC based PACs and ALEC directed out of state contributions.
Think the division in the state Republican party is a myth? Think again, it is a reality, and it’s going to get more real as November approaches.
l3wis