Well isn’t that the $100,000 question?
The third annual Mayor’s Big Sioux River Water Quality Summit will be held at the Days Inn Convention Center in Brookings, SD, on September 10, 2015.
I will say this, I don’t care if he is running for higher office, whether that is a congressional seat or governor. I think it will be fun to watch a man who has very thin skin as a politician to take the scrutiny on a state wide level. He will crumble under the pressure.
What is stuck in my craw is that he is traveling all over the state on the city’s dime to campaign before he even has announced anything. Recent speaking engagements in Yankton, and two in Deadwood and now a ‘Big Sioux River water summit’ in Brookings that doesn’t even have the Big Sioux River running through it.
One of his claims is that Brookings is a good site for the summit because they have a tributary of the Big Sioux running through it, and that people from Watertown would be more likely to attend because Brookings is closer, because you know, everyone uses horse and buggy these days in Northern South Dakota, and while Brookings is only 40 minutes from Sioux Falls in a car, that’s a half-a-day trip in the buggy or stagecoach.
So what do I expect from Huether? At least a partial announcement that he is strongly exploring a run for higher office, and if so, stop using my tax dollars and city resources to quietly campaign across the state. It’s not just unethical, it is against campaign finance laws.
Oh, I forgot who I was talking about, stupid me.
As for cleaning up the Big Poo, I have often suggested partnering with the CORPS to build a filtration dam coming into Sioux Falls. Not only would it help clean the river, it could also act as flood control. Councilor Rolfing made comment about it in a recent council meeting and was told ‘they are too costly’. Well so is spending millions of dollars over a 20 year period (the proposal on the table now) trying to coax cows from not pooping in the river upstream. Lewis & Clark was also expensive, $80 million. Then there is the Events Center, over $100 million, an indoor pool, $24 million and a river greenway, over $10 million so far, in which none of the projects do anything to improve water quality. I say spend the money TODAY on a filtration dam, then proceed with the other cleanup efforts. Because as of right now the plan seems a little ass backwards, you know, like having a water summit about cleaning up the Atlantic ocean in Minneapolis.
Using city budget for state campaign purposes is grounds for mayoral recall. To bad this provision was removed from ordinances last year and strong mayor denies the council this power. Oh well, at least he won’t be around the next couple years to create more debt and cause more damage. To get him gone, I’d vote for him as mayor of the moon but he’d want to make space travel an indoor sport.
Please make it the mayor of the dark side of the moon, otherwise his first official act will be to have his likeness carved in the Earth facing side so we have to stare at it for all eternity.
I bet the siding on the Moon’s event center wouldn’t last as long, but that should be expected with the exposure to the radiation. But even with the increased transportation costs, it would still be reported that financially “it’s in the black!”
State law allows recall of mayor, but if that happened, he could have another 4 years or so, if the city goofs vote for him again, I don’t think they will, no one in Twin Eagles to Prairie Hills would ever think to vote for the a clown unless your a Walmart investor. Let him finish his term, and sue him for his property if found to have been campaigning on our dime. I think the city needs a remote park along a private lake built by taxpayers of SF for MMM, to have a nice relaxation place to smoke pot when it becomes legal.