While Noem blabbers about helping ranchers in the Farm Bill, she votes to get rid of the congressional disclosure
l3wis 
January 2014
Take the shirt right off the mayor’s back
MMM is finally making his big announcement;
On February 5th, next Wednesday, Mike Huether will give his official campaign announcement to the press. This will take place in the new Hilton in Sioux Falls around 1 or 1:30. We’ll have more specific details soon but we would love to have a group of supporters to stand behind Mike during the press conference. You would get a free My Man Mike t-shirt (to keep) to wear.
Who couldn’t use another a good yard work t-shirt! Sign me up!
Mayor Huether announces his top 10 ‘Hot Dog’ list of 2013
And I got an early copy!
10) My hair has stayed the same length all year long, and I didn’t receive one single haircut. Amazing.
9) Traffic lights all over Sioux Falls have changed from Green, to Yellow to Red successfully without interruption.
8) We have successfully taken millions out of the property tax rolls in the form of TIF rebates, for stuff like Big Box Retailers, Basketball arenas, Luxury Hotels and Condos.
7) We are proud of our almost non-existent unemployment rate. We contribute it to workers in Sioux Falls holding multiple low-paying jobs and having their school children bilk the government for free meals.
6) We’ve poured a crap load of concrete by the convention center. And I mean A CRAP LOAD!*
5) Building Permits have skyrocketed, mostly on apartment buildings. Since the economy tanking, more and more people in Sioux Falls are getting forced out of the their homes or can’t afford one. But hey, we’ll set you up with an affordable apartment. Hope you have a car, because our transit system doesn’t go that far out.
4) I have successfully ignored public transit in Sioux Falls, and threw it in the council’s lap.
3)Â I have held more press conferences than the last 37 Sioux Falls mayors combined. Woot! Woot!
2) My BFF Randell Beck & I brought this big bikey thingy to town.
1) *I have limited my use of the word ‘crap’ to 25 times a week, down from 37 times a week in 2012.
SD Dems finally have a good candidate and they have to muck it up
Just another martyr for the Democratic Party?
The South Dakota Democratic Party often baffles me in the decisions they make. They finally have a great candidate running for governor, Joe Lowe, (IMOÂ – they’re leading candidate on the Dem ticket) and they have to muddy the waters by digging up a primary challenger, WTH?
Democrats, it appears we are receiving our marching orders from Party Central:Â Vote for Susan Wismer.
Rep. Susan Wismer (D-1/Britton) announced yesterday that she is challenging Joe Lowe for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Bernie Hunhoff (D-18/Yankton) introduced her at her Capitol press conference. Most of the Democrats in the Legislature stood beside her to show their support.
Don’t get me wrong, Wismer is a viable candidate, but I have never understood why the Dems like to waste talent in one race? Why not ask Wismer or Lowe to run for SOS instead (you know, the race you are kind of ignoring, the one where a scandalous current SOS is not seeking re-election, a race that will probably spit out the GOP’s Klueless Krebs as their candidate who is really just the female version of ALEC loving Gant.
I’m wondering when the Dems are going to get their poop in group, get off the Facebooks and Twitters and pick up the phone from time to time and DISCUSS STRATEGY!
What a concept!
Seems former congressional candidate Curd may have some explainin’ to do (H/T – Helga)
So this is interesting;
The swapping works like this: A donor gives the maximum to Candidate A donates to Candidate B — and in return, a donor or friend of Candidate B gives an identical amount to Candidate A.
A Daily News review of 2010 federal fundraising records found more than 20 transactions that suggest supporters of Grimm and candidates in California, South Dakota, Illinois and Virginia swapped donations totalling more than $75,000.
One set of transactions involved Grimm himself:
On March 31, 2010, Grimm and Durand each gave $2,400 to Blake Curb, a Republican making a longshot bid for Congress in South Dakota. And on the same day, Allison Bolger, an accountant in a Sioux Falls, S.D. firm headed by Curb, donated $4,800 to Grimm.