February 2015

Sioux Falls City Council Public Input 2/2/2015

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Charlie’s full testimony (the mayor cut him off at 6 minutes): Spellerberg Pool Points

The Sioux Falls City Council under the careful guidance of Fiddle Faddle sure is making some bonehead moves lately. Silencing critics with jail time is one thing but issuing orders to Council Members to NOT talk to the public is another.

Fiddle Faddle is taking his workload a bit too serious. Why, he is even confusing the responsibilities of a City Council with that of a runaway jury. You remember the John Grisham movie “Runaway Jury” where the juror and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer?

Our City Council is supposed to be a legislative body, able to gather facts, figures and stories from their lives, friends, neighbors, newspapers and officials to make decisions. We citizens do not hire them to do only what they are told by an out of control city administration. Their job is to investigate and ask questions. They are not judicial in any sense of the meaning in their jobs as our representatives.

Fiddle Faddle is getting very tired and needs a break based on his stupid rulings of late.

The four guys who got up and talked at public input Monday night did so to remind the council of their responsibilities to us. The city government’s marketing chief and puppet master needs to actually take notice of the things said Monday night.

Think about this: the 4 different citizens all included assertions that “the City (Hall) doesn’t follow their own ordinances or statutory procedures”. At what point does our city government have to begin to follow the laws governing the rest of the United States and South Dakota. Even sovereign tribal nations have to follow most laws. Why not Sioux Falls?

One of the take away revelations from Monday night, There appear to be several state and federal lawsuits being dropped on Fiddle Faddle concerning not only ambulances but railroads, illegal property seizures and more. How many Fiddle Faddle marketing opinions are being challenged in the courts we have not heard about?

Contact the Senate State Affairs Committee over the ‘Corey Brown’ Bill

There seems to be some confusion by the committee members about exactly what Corey’s bill (166) will do. It is pretty simple, it will make it very difficult for citizens to approve legislation at the ballot box. Some South DaCola foot soldiers have been calling committee members and they have all kinds of excuses as to why this bill is good, most are saying it is ‘too easy’ to get legislation on the ballot. Do they mean ‘easy’ like when Pierre is controlled by 80% Repuplicans who push there corporate ALEC agenda?

Some have said that our Secretary of State, Krebs, is not involved, and while I believe that she isn’t directly involved, by not saying anything about the bill (for or against) she is doing a disservice to citizens as one of our constitutional officers. She needs to make a statement about the ‘Corey Brown’ bill.

Here is the contact information for the committee members (Click on links)

Brown, Corey Vice Chair
Holien, Ried
Hunhoff, Bernie
Lederman, Dan
Otten, Ernie
Rave, Tim Chair
Soholt, Deb
Solano, Alan
Sutton, Billie
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